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 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:
Candy Crush Saga (also the top grossing app)
YouTube
Temple Run 2
Vine
Google Maps
Snapchat
Instagram
Facebook
Pandora Radio
Despicable Me: Minion Rush
Flashlight
4 pics 1 word
Twitter
Subway Surfers
Facebook Messenger
Top paid iPhone apps:
Minecraft
Heads Up!
Temple Run: Oz
Angry Birds Star Wars
Plague Inc.
Afterlight
Free Music Download Pro
Bloons TD 5
Sleep Cycle alarm clock
Plants vs. Zombies
Camera Plus
Fruit Ninja
Scrabblenauts Remix
Tetris
Wipeout
Top free iPad apps:
Candy Crush Saga
YouTube
Temple Run 2
Calculator for iPad Free
Skype for iPad
Netflix
Despicable Me: Minion Rush
Facebook
The Weather Channel
Subway Surfers
Kindle
Pandora
Chrome (Google)
Gmail
Real Racing 3
Top paid iPad apps:
Minecraft
Temple Run: Oz
Plants vs. Zombies HD
Angry Birds Star Wars HD
Notability
Angry Birds Star Wars II
Bad Piggies HD
Survivalcraft
Toca Hair Salon 2
Photon Flash Player for iPad
Scrabblenauts Remix
Doc McStuffins
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Words with Friends HD
Where’s My Water
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