MONTHLY DATA
What moved on the App Store: June 2026
· 7 min read
This is the run we give away. Every category in it, every score and every piece of evidence behind those scores is published free and in full, so the way the report is built can be argued with before anyone pays for one. This is the June 2026 run: daily snapshots of Apple's charts in the US, UK and Turkey across all 25 categories and three chart types, diffed over a 28-day window and read against each app's most recent review sample. 259 scored ideas came out of it.
The biggest climbs
Chart movement is a two-point diff, so it needs two days of history and nothing else. No estimates, no modelling. These are the largest free-chart jumps in the window:
- GöçBil+95
#97 → #2 · Business · TR · free top 100
- Indoor Thermometer+86
#94 → #8 · Weather · UK · free top 100
- Rock Identifier: Stone ID+86
#97 → #11 · Education · UK · free top 100
- Love8 - App for Couples+85
#99 → #14 · Utilities · US · free top 100
- MP3 Audio Converter+80
#98 → #18 · Music · TR · free top 100
- QWeather+79
#97 → #18 · Weather · TR · free top 100
What it costs to enter a top 100
We model an entry wall for every category and storefront: roughly how many ratings an app needs before it can hold a top 100 slot. Pick a storefront below; these are the cheapest doors each one had open this run.
- Developer Tools986 ratings
161 charted competitors, 7 of the top 10 grossing apps have under 5,000 ratings
- Medical10,435 ratings
193 charted competitors, 3 of the top 10 grossing apps have under 5,000 ratings
- Food & Drink26,416 ratings
196 charted competitors, 1 of the top 10 grossing apps have under 5,000 ratings
- Navigation32,053 ratings
160 charted competitors, 2 of the top 10 grossing apps have under 5,000 ratings
- Shopping35,000 ratings
196 charted competitors, 2 of the top 10 grossing apps have under 5,000 ratings
Same store, same month, and the widest gap in the run is 1,973,375 ratings for Entertainment in the US against 25 for Shopping in Turkey. Picking the storefront is a bigger decision than picking the feature, and almost nobody treats it as one.
The same category is priced three different ways:
- Shopping: about 35,000 ratings in the US, about 25 in Turkey, a 1400x gap.
- News: about 551,935 ratings in the US, about 868 in Turkey, a 636x gap.
- Magazines & Newspapers: about 275,280 ratings in the US, about 589 in Turkey, a 467x gap.
Charting, and hated
A chart position says an app has distribution. It says nothing about whether the people inside it are happy, and the gap between those two signals is where the openings are. Counts are how many of the sampled reviewers said the same thing.
MarineTraffic - Ship Tracking
Travel · UK · Top Grossing #6
92% of its last 200 reviews are one or two stars.
- the Kpler rewrite (estimated)90 reviewers
- login loops eating paid plans (estimated)25 reviewers
- removed/paywalled basics — vessel length, 24h tracks, distance measuring (estimated)20 reviewers
“Make the sea blue for god sake.”
TOD
Sports · UK · Declining (growPotential 0.07)
92% of its last 73 reviews are one or two stars.
- paid-but-nothing-works (estimated)25 reviewers
- 10-minute stream freezes (estimated)15 reviewers
- unreachable support (estimated)8 reviewers
What scored highest
Every idea is scored 0–100 on demand, winnability, monetization, feasibility and momentum, with a penalty for picking a fight with a giant. The scoring engine is public, weights included, so you can disagree with a number rather than take it on faith.
Themed Idle / Incremental Sim (the light play)
Games · US · week to build
85/100
PlaneRadio — Ad-Supported Free ATC Listening
Travel · US · week to build
84/100
Takes from ATC - Live Air Traffic Radio · Quick win
SnapExpense — pay-per-scan receipt capture
Finance · US · month to build
84/100
Takes from Scan Receipts & Track Expenses · Crowded
Check it yourself
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