Apple: Games, Social And Video Dominate Top Apps Lists

Like everyone else Apple has released its year-end top lists. Below are the top iOS apps, including top free and top paid apps for both the iPhone and iPad. The lists are a mix of “incumbents” and “insurgents.” Pandora remains in the top 10 (12 on the iPad list) and YouTube was number two on […]

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    Apple Best of 2013Like everyone else Apple has released its year-end top lists. Below are the top iOS apps, including top free and top paid apps for both the iPhone and iPad.

    The lists are a mix of “incumbents” and “insurgents.” Pandora remains in the top 10 (12 on the iPad list) and YouTube was number two on both free lists. The paid lists were all about games.

    On the top free iPhone list, social apps were clustered in the middle, with Twitter’s Vine at number four and Twitter itself at 13. Google Maps, which saw a surge of downloads after it became available earlier this year, wound up at number five for the year.

    Yesterday Nielsen released its top smartphone apps of the year list (combined Android and iPhone). It reflects something fairly different vs. Apple’s lists.

    Nielsen is reporting total US smartphone audience reach while Apple is exposing top apps/downloads on iOS only. Nielsen shows Facebook as the top overall smartphone app and Google as the publisher with the most apps in the top 10. Below are Apple’s top lists.

    Top free iPhone apps:

    1. Candy Crush Saga (also the top grossing app)
    2. YouTube
    3. Temple Run 2
    4. Vine
    5. Google Maps
    6. Snapchat
    7. Instagram
    8. Facebook
    9. Pandora Radio
    10. Despicable Me: Minion Rush
    11. Flashlight
    12. 4 pics 1 word
    13. Twitter
    14. Subway Surfers
    15. Facebook Messenger

    Top paid iPhone apps:

    1. Minecraft
    2. Heads Up!
    3. Temple Run: Oz
    4. Angry Birds Star Wars
    5. Plague Inc.
    6. Afterlight
    7. Free Music Download Pro
    8. Bloons TD 5
    9. Sleep Cycle alarm clock
    10. Plants vs. Zombies
    11. Camera Plus
    12. Fruit Ninja
    13. Scrabblenauts Remix
    14. Tetris
    15. Wipeout

    Top free iPad apps:

    1. Candy Crush Saga
    2. YouTube
    3. Temple Run 2
    4. Calculator for iPad Free
    5. Skype for iPad
    6. Netflix
    7. Despicable Me: Minion Rush
    8. Facebook
    9. The Weather Channel
    10. Subway Surfers
    11. Kindle
    12. Pandora
    13. Chrome (Google)
    14. Gmail
    15. Real Racing 3

    Top paid iPad apps:

    1. Minecraft
    2. Temple Run: Oz
    3. Plants vs. Zombies HD
    4. Angry Birds Star Wars HD
    5. Notability
    6. Angry Birds Star Wars II
    7. Bad Piggies HD
    8. Survivalcraft
    9. Toca Hair Salon 2
    10. Photon Flash Player for iPad
    11. Scrabblenauts Remix
    12. Doc McStuffins
    13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    14. Words with Friends HD
    15. Where’s My Water

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