Want to drill down to see how different iPhone apps are doing? You can click around iTunes and collect your own data, or you can visit the Application Ranking section of Mobclix and see the breakdown of iPhone apps in each category. Paid apps still outnumber free apps. Of the 3,420 apps in the iTunes App Store, a full 2,604 (76 percent) are paid, and only 816 are free. (About the same ratio since the App Store launched). Games dominate (31 percent of all apps), followed by utilities (15 percent) and entertainment apps (12 percent).
Within each category, you can sort apps by rank, price, rating, or release date. And if you click on a specific app, you will get a chart showing its rank over time—something you can’t see in iTunes. For instance, Tap Tap Revenge is maintaining its early strength, and is currently ranked No. 8. The No. 1 free app is Air Sharing (which turns your iPhone into a wireless hard drive) shot up quickly in the rankings after its launch on September 8. In contrast, the No. 1 paid app, PocketGuitar (which turns your iPhone into a digital guitar) launched on August 26 and worked its way up more gradually in the overall rankings to its current No. 40 spot.
The stats are great if you are looking at a specific app or category, but Mobclix could do a better job of letting you sort and filter apps across all categories. More aggregate data would be welcome.
Mobclix launched at TechCrunch50 last week (watch its presentation here), and its main business is in giving individual iPhone app developers usage data about their apps. In that regard, it competes with Pinch Media.
i’d like to know jailbroken app ratings as well. any estimates on how many jailbroken handsets are out there?
Which GENIUS at MOBCLIX chose their graph COLORS? The BLIND man?
FRIKING DUH. Things like this make me believe the world had gone completely INSANE.
Somebody needs to keep track of exactly how many tech strups come out everyday. maybe someone will write software for that..
what a useless graph - 10 shades of blue / grey.
aw, thats a very good point, mobclix is recording many stats, we’ll investigate if there’s a simple way to record it across phones, thanks for the idea.
sounds cool but site is unresponsive. out of curiousity, where does the data come from?
Seems like a good idea. The Tech Crunch affect is hitting it hard tho
we increased our capacity. enjoy!
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This rocks!
Ok great it really is slick, but what the hell is with the pie chart with blues that are all one shade away from each other?
That is the worst UI/analytics design ever. For a start, a pie chart is a poor choice (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.....ion_on_use).
Secondly, the all-blue color scheme makes it impossible to associate the categories in the legend with the chart.
Using a tabular bar chart like Google Analytics where the category, the % and a bar are all on the same line would be easier to read and more space efficient.
Screenshot is not that cool but if you look at the actual graph on the site it’s pretty intereactive in flash and its really easy to read better than a rainbow bright graph:
http://www.mobclix.com/appstores/
looks like they are getting hammered by traffic though…
No rewiews yet!
wuz up
Check out http://www.apptism.com for another useful iPhone apps directory.
Apptism indexes all of the iPhone apps and also aggregates all of the latest news, reviews, and videos on every app. Some additional unique features include: Comparisons, e-mail and SMS alerts, Watch List, Version History, and more.
Historical graphs are almost complete and will be implemented soon, along with many more upgrades to come.
wish they made AirShare for blackberry, would be so handy!
I really like this because i can never find compelling reviews to make me want to pay for an app.
hahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d love to know how they are different from Pinch Media.
sometimes,It can give iphone apps developer some reference. which is the best nich for their do develop iphone apps.
idonotlikeitbecauseitisstupid