March 2012
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Productivity Publisher: Google Inc. ...
Mar 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Feb,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: $0.99  Category: Productivity Publisher: Realmac Software ...
Mar 1st
January 2012
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Social Networking Publisher: Facebook ...
Jan 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Dec,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: $6.99  Category: Games Publisher: Chair Entertainment Group, LLC ...
Jan 1st
December 2011
10 posts
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
Day 8 of Google’s celebration of the 10 billionth Android app download. As a reminder Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/13/2011), it looks like Google has gone above and beyond the expectations they had set and has 12 apps today: Where’s My Water? HD Widgets All By Myself - Little Critter ...
Dec 13th
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
Day 7 of Google’s celebration of the 10 billionth Android app download. As a reminder Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/12/2011): Doodle Jump When I Get Bigger Beautiful Widgets Flick Soccer! SUPER KO BOXING! 2 Blow Up Roll in the Hole Block Breaker 3 Unlimited HD SoundHound ∞ Flight Control ...
Dec 13th
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
Day 6 of Google’s celebration of the 10 billionth Android app download. As a reminder Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/11/2011): NFL 3D Live Wallpaper Unlocked SimCity™ Deluxe Just Me and My Mom BackStab HD Jenga Raging Thunder Backbreaker Football Captain America Endomondo Sports Tracker...
Dec 12th
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
Day 5 of Google’s celebration of the 10 billionth Android app download. As a reminder Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/10/2011): Pano Apparatus SlideIT Keyboard The Sims™ 3 Age of Zombies Kids Connect the Dots Drop7 by Zynga Season Zen HD Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD Snowfall Live Wallpaper Grab...
Dec 10th
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
Day 4 of Google’s celebration of the 10 billionth Android app download. As a reminder Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/9/2011): Shazam Encore Sentinel 3: Homeworld Baseball Superstars® 2011 Spirit HD Jelly Defense Paper Camera My Beach HD Farm Frenzy Toddler Spanish: 100 words Game Dev Story ...
Dec 9th
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
Day 3 of Google’s celebration of the 10 billionth Android app download. As a reminder Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/8/2011): TETRIS ® Blue Skies Donation Wallpaper Homerun Battle 3D Reckless Getaway Talking Tom Cat 2 Kids Learn to Read (Preschool) ADWLauncher EX Space Physics Toki Tori Can...
Dec 8th
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
Day 2 of Google’s celebration of the 10 billionth Android app download. As a reminder Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/7/2011): Fruit Ninja BB - Bedtime Battle AirSync by doubleTwist Flick Golf! Star Chart Reckless Racing Christmas HD NFL Rivals Beautiful Widgets Read It Later Pro ...
Dec 7th
10 Billionth Android App Download Celebration Day...
As part of the celebration for the 10 billionth Android app download, Google will be reducing the price on 10 apps each day to 10 cents for each of the next 10 days. Here are the apps for today (12/6/2011): Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD Color & Draw for kids:phone ed Fieldrunners HD Endomondo Sports Tracker PRO Great Little War Game Minecraft - Pocket Edition SoundHound Paper Camera ...
Dec 7th
The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: $2.99  Category: Social Networking Publisher: Michael Devine ...
Dec 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Nov,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Lifestyle Publisher: Apple Inc. Apple...
Dec 1st
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October 2011
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Top Five Windows Phone Apps
At AppStoreHQ, we’re really excited about the potential of the Windows Phone platform. As we just announced, we have launched coverage of the Windows Phone app ecosystem in our mobile app search engine. We’ve been very impressed with how quickly the number of apps has grown; admittedly, there are still fewer apps than on iOS and Android, but the trajectory is very strong. And, with...
Oct 7th
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AppStoreHQ Launches Windows Phone Coverage
Today we are very excited to launch coverage of the Windows Phone application ecosystem!  The Windows Phone platform has grown rapidly to 30,000 mobile apps — in just under a year — and provides users with a wide variety of high-quality apps. We’re not surprised at the growth, as we think the Windows Phone OS is a great new take on interacting with a smartphone; the Metro UI and...
Oct 7th
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Productivity Publisher: Evernote Corp. ...
Oct 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Sep,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: $0.99  Category: Games Publisher: Halfbrick Studios ...
Oct 1st
September 2011
6 posts
2 tags
AppESP - Never install a sh*tty app again!
Here at AppStoreHQ, we love – I mean LOVE – mobile apps! We’ve got hundreds and hundreds of ‘em on our phones and tablets and are constantly adding more. But lets face it, there are a ton of crummy apps out there, and we got tired of getting burned. So, we set out to solve the dual problems of (a) reading your mind to know exactly what kinds of apps you like, and (b) sifting through all the crap...
Sep 27th
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Windows Phone Apps - Coming Soon!
AppStoreHQ is getting ready to launch coverage of Windows Phone apps and we’re running a competition for app developers in our community. We’re going to pick five Windows Phone apps submitted by community members by September 30th and feature them right at the top of the AppStoreHQ home page! This is a great opportunity to get coverage and visibility for your Windows Phone app.  In...
Sep 23rd
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Paging Mr. Bond - Your Table is Ready
Everyone knows that games are a huge driver of the mobile apps business. From Angry Birds to Plants vs Zombies, Fruit Ninja to Words with Friends, games dominate the charts by unit sales and revenues. But it’s not just the new wave of games that were designed for smartphones that fill up the catalog; there are also plenty of classic games available.  The Classics We decided to take a...
Sep 16th
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Amazon Web Services for Mobile App Development
AppStoreHQ uses Amazon Web Services for the back end of both our web site and our AppESP Android app. Among others, we use the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), CloudFront, and Elastic Block Store (EBS) services. We think that AWS is a great platform for easily building scalable web and mobile applications, as it lets us quickly deploy new servers when demand grows, while...
Sep 7th
The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Social Networking Publisher: Google Inc. ...
Sep 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Aug,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Social Networking Publisher: Photovine ...
Sep 1st
August 2011
5 posts
AppDuel - It's an App Smackdown!
Today we launched a new Android app, AppDuel. This simple app lets you tell us which apps you prefer from a series of pairings. Facebook vs. Twitter. Flixster vs IMDB. Google Maps vs Google Earth - you get the idea! You’ve got 15 seconds to make your choice - as soon as you do, we’ll show you how everyone else voted and move you on to the next duel. Just click the timer to skip a...
Aug 9th
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Top Free Amazon Appstore for Android Apps
Last month, AppStoreHQ announced that we were working with Amazon.com to help promote their Appstore for Android. As part of that promotion, we took a look at all the apps that were submitted to Amazon (and later approved) to pick the ones we think are the best. It turned out to be harder than we expected, as there were many hundreds of apps submitted, across more than 15 categories, from Games to...
Aug 2nd
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Top Paid Amazon Appstore for Android Apps
AppStoreHQ is working with Amazon.com to help promote their new Amazon Appstore for Android. As part of this work we evaluated all of the apps submitted to the store in mid-late July and selected our picks for the best five apps. They’ve got a great, broad collection of apps; every one has been tested and checked for quality. Our picks, in no particular order, are: Read It Later...
Aug 2nd
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Social Networking Publisher: Google Inc. ...
Aug 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Jul,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Social Networking Publisher: Google ...
Aug 1st
July 2011
4 posts
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Submit your Apps to Amazon Appstore for Android!
AppStoreHQ is proud to announce that we are working with Amazon to help promote their new Appstore for Android!  As a part of this work, we’ll be looking at all apps submitted to the Amazon Appstore between July 13th and July 22nd, 2011, and featuring five of them on our home page as well as in a newsletter to our users and in our Android app, AppESP. Submit your app to the Amazon Appstore...
Jul 14th
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Games, Games, Games!
Mobile games are big. Nielsen says they’re the most popular apps category - it’s not clear from the article whether that’s self-reported usage data, number of downloads, or something else. Apple says its 200M iOS users are now downloading 1 billion apps per month and it’s clear that a lot of that traffic is games. Looking at the lists of the top free and paid apps at the...
Jul 7th
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Music & Audio Publisher: Sony Network Entertainment ...
Jul 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Jun,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Photography Publisher: Burbn, Inc. ...
Jul 1st
June 2011
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600,000 and Counting
Although it hardly seems possible that the pace of mobile app creation and innovation could keep up, that’s just what’s been happening. On June 16th, ten months to the day after the AppStoreHQ index registered 300,000 mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms, the number hit 600,000. From “A & B Taxis” (iPhone, UK-only) to Zynga Poker (Android), and many, many more, new apps keep popping...
Jun 29th
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It's the Apps, Stupid!
This week we pulled the data for app installs for a randomly-selected set of 5,000 anonymized users of AppESP. These users had installed a total of 246,458 apps on their Android phones, or 49.3 apps per user. We wanted to understand how many distinct apps were installed by these Android users, as well as the distribution of number of installations per app. The results were pretty surprising. ...
Jun 16th
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Travel & Local Publisher: Google Inc. ...
Jun 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (May,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Games Publisher: Inventive, Inc. The...
Jun 1st
May 2011
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AppStoreHQ is Fierce!
FierceWireless Names AppStoreHQ as one of Its “Fierce 15” Wireless Companies of 2011 AppStoreHQ connects mobile device users and app developers  Seattle, WA – May 18, 2011 – AppStoreHQ announced today that it has been named to the annual FierceWireless “Fierce 15” list, marking it as one of the top privately-held wireless companies of the year. FierceWireless editors evaluated hundreds...
May 18th
The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Games Publisher: Rovio Mobile Ltd. ...
May 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Apr,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Games Publisher: Atari Atari’s...
May 1st
April 2011
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White AppESP Arrives Today
SEATTLE, Washington – April 28th, 2011 – AppStoreHQ today announced that the new, white version of its flagship app, AppESP, was released today. AppESP is available for immediate download from Android Market, as well as from http://appesp.com/. “The white AppESP has arrived, and it’s beautiful,” said Scott Blanksteen, CEO of AppStoreHQ. “We’d like to thank all of our loyal users who’ve waiting...
Apr 28th
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Travel & Local Publisher: Google Inc. ...
Apr 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Mar,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Social Networking Publisher: Twitter, Inc. ...
Apr 1st
March 2011
2 posts
The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Games Publisher: Rovio Mobile Ltd. ...
Mar 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Feb,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Reference Publisher: Google Google...
Mar 1st
February 2011
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11 Apps for Valentine's Day
OK, everyone, it’s that time of year when we give our wallets a chocolate-and-flowers-driven workout! What’s that you say? You find yourself with a partner on this most paired-up of holidays? Well, don’t despair, AppStoreHQ can hook you up help you out! Here are some great apps for to help both our Android and iPhone friends find those special someones…  Skout - iPhone /...
Feb 9th
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7 Food and Drink Apps for the Game
There’s still time to throw together some great grub and luscious libations for today’s Big Football Game! Check out these super iPhone and Android apps for ideas and suggestions… Android  BigOven  Epicurious Recipes  8,500 Drink Recipes iPhone / iPad  Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner  Epicurious  BigOven  Mixology Hurry up and get cooking - the game’s starting soon!...
Feb 6th
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10 Apps for that Big Football Game
Well, some of you may be watching just for the commercials, but there are going to be millions of people watching every play, trying to get every last bit of information about the game, the players, and the excitement of the final NFL game of the season.  Just as the Steelers and Packers look to be very evenly matched, we present here a list of 5 matched pairs of iPhone and Android football apps...
Feb 2nd
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The most talked about Android apps last month...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading Android app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about Android apps: FREE Category: Games Publisher: Kongregate ...
Feb 1st
The most talked about iPhone apps last month (Jan,...
At the end of every month, we sort through every review from the leading iPhone app blogs to find out which apps were talked about the most during the month. Here are last month’s top ten most–talked–about iPhone apps: FREE Category: Productivity Publisher: Microsoft Corporation ...
Feb 1st