At the end of 2024, Apple will announce the most frequently downloaded apps and games of the year on iPhone, iPad and Apple Arcade in the form of charts. These were found for the people used in more than 30 countries and regions, as the Cupertino company reports here.
Temu and Blitzer.de Pro are popular
There you will find among the most downloaded free apps At the top of the charts was the controversial Temu (“Shop like billionaires”), followed by ChatGPT, Threads and Check24, followed by apps such as Google, Google Chrome and Whatsapp as well as other mobile programs from social networks.
Both paid apps or this one with in-app purchases beats all others for navigation. This is followed by Threema as a messenger and Forest as a productivity app that lets you plant virtual trees when you keep your hands off your iPhone. Then Food with Love (recipes), driver's license 2025 gold and baby monitor 3G. With the top iPhone games (free) Get on the podium Brawl Stars, Block Blast! and Squad Busters, die Top iPhone games (purchased) Introduce Plague Inc., the “eternal” Minecraft and Pou. The Monopoly app is also quite high in both charts and also in the iPad games. Especially with those Paid iPad apps If you find clear differences to the iPhone charts, the first five places here are: Procreate. Procreate Dreams, AnkiMobile Flashcards, ForScore and finally the Atlas of Human Anatomy 2025. Another look at them Top Apple Arcade Games. For Apple Arcade you regularly pay seven euros per month as a subscription, the top three there are Snake.io+, Turmoil+ and Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Not to forget: App Store Awards
All of the apps mentioned and other apps can be viewed directly in the Apple App Store and downloaded to your own device such as an iPhone or iPad with appropriate compatibility.
Apple will also take this opportunity to remind you of the recently awarded App Store Awards, which we reported on in detail here.