App Store

“The first one is if you go to the App Store and you search text-to-speech, Speechify has 98% of the installs in text-to-speech for B to C.”

“And the app store in some ways was an enormous threat to the web. Like it took people away from the web. It was probably one of the biggest, between it and Facebook were like the two biggest forces that really made the web less interesting.”

“There's no app store for AI. So this actual product cycle for consumer looks more like Web two point O, where you have to kind of build the channel alongside the product and less like mobile, where you actually have the central point of distribution for the en…”

“I think they do, like, 30 or forty million in revenue, according to the Financial Times, and they have, like, 400,000 reviews on the App Store.”

“This is why the Adams thing is cool. Because you're not dropping a fucking app in the app store. You're like, automating a two million pound machine going 35 miles an hour carrying gold.”

“The app store as a moat has, is, is being diminished by AI.”

“I mean, we download an average of zero new apps a month.”

“I believe last year there was 40,000, 40,000 games launched in the App Store, and zero percent of them sustained a top 25 position.”

“I'm looking on the app store right now, but yours shows up after the sponsor results as number two for the Keyword guitar tone.”

“You know, there was something like 40,000 new games launched last year in the app store and zero, you know, became top 10 hits and zero even sustained top 25 or 50.”

“You lose at least half your users every click. Every time you say click here, half people don't click. And you lose 80% when you say download this. At least. It's probably 90 or more. 90% or more in the app store.”

“So I think you know, I think the entire engineering paradigm, the way that software is built now enables you know, a totally different way of thinking about specs and about our platform. And frankly, overcomes the biggest hurdle that we were facing, which was …”

“Replit has been on the App Store since twenty-twenty-two doing exactly the same thing, allowing people to generate or write code. And running it in a browser window. Suddenly they're saying that we are you know, we're not complying with their guidelines. And w…”

“They're accepting apps made on replet. They're accepting them into the app store. I tweeted about one yesterday. There's the acceptance rate. It's very high.”

“So I was talking to Robert Stevens actually, and he was like, I don't even download apps anymore. I just screenshot the app in the app store and throw it in a thing and go code the app. And then it just builds a personalized version of the app that I want.”

“There's gonna be like some super skill that's gonna run against every piece of software that's in, in the app store. And it's gonna basically go in and it's gonna fix them all. And then they're gonna get released. They're gonna be like, oh, this sucks. It's ju…”

“The app store saw an 85% increase in new apps this past quarter.”

“In most recent quarters, new app count has grown less than 10%.”

“There's so much opportunity to build popular apps, build the same exact app in another country because the app store is huge in other countries.”

“I heard that open AI and some of the bigger apps have been stuck in the queue for a month. For changes that are unrelated to VibeCode, it's just random changes unrelated.”

“Gen AI apps Paid Apple nearly nine hundred million dollar in App Store fees in 2025.”

“Three fourths of the revenue Apple rakes in from Gen AI apps in its App Store come from ChatGPT.”

“Yeah, I mean, they passed GPT in the app store.”

“Claude is now the number one app in the app store, which is wild.”

“After years of relative calm, the number of iOS apps released in December 25 jumped by 60% year over year.”

“Yeah, it's at 23 right now.”

“It took me three days to code the app and over a week to actually get it approved on the app store.”

“If you go to app store today, top five out of top 10 productivity apps are all Google. It's insane. And Chachi B is number one.”

“It took me around a month from The idea to being live on the app store from June to July first, that's when I launched.”

“We're number 19 on the App Store and we've made over a thousand bucks.”

“People don't understand how big of a deal the app store screenshot is because it is the first impression that a user has with your app when they go to the app store. And if you don't have a good first impression, that's the difference. It's like, there's no po…”

“Right now we're already seeing tons of, you know, some of our first users building very specific apps that would never exist in On the App Store. They're just too small. They're too personalized, too niche.”

“If today the app store is very much not social and it probably won't ever be social because of Apple's mandate for privacy and how important that is for them”

“When the App Store came out, there were six million iPhones in distribution, right?”

“So just last week, Gemini, Google Gemini hit the number one app in the App Store. I have it right here. It's still number one in the App Store. It's above ChatGPT.”

“It's the number one app on the App Store.”

“You don't need to explain every part in your funnel for your video to be effective. All you have to do is take the person from your TikTok video To the app store. That's exactly what all these videos do, right? There's no explanation of the product. There's no…”

“And in the future, you're not going to have an app store. Like I don't need, I don't want to go figure out what the app for my toaster was called and like make sure I make toast, man. Like I said, talk to the AI and let it handle the backend.”

“Go look at App Store ranking, or Google Trends, or usage data of any kind that you can get, and you see that basically it's ChatGPT, and then none of the others are more than five percent of that.”

“Perplexity gets all this buzz and struggles to break into the top hundred on the App Store.”

“25% of the revenue is from the App Store, 40% of its profit, right? And 75% of its revenue is iPhone and App Store.”

“I'm actually surprised it is in productivity because X is famously in news, not in social networking. And so X will typically be at the top of the news subcategory because it would be much harder to compete in the product in the social networking category agai…”

“For some reason, we've noticed that the education space actually tends to have, like, a relatively, like pricier subscription rate for a lot of things, mostly because like people tend to turn.”

“If you were a Facebook marketer in 2008, you had an unfair advantage. If you were in consumer mobile in 2010 when the app store, you know, basically just came out, you had an unfair advantage. There's an unfair advantage that exists right now in vibe marketing…”

“So the executive team at Apple, including Steve were actually calling developers to inform them that their apps were not going to be approved, that they were taken off the off the app store kind of like trying to avoid them going to the press and just like bei…”

“I'm happy to say there is an app store rule that is, was made specifically for me at the time.”

“So we basically took this and spent about One and a half months actually building it out before we launched in the app store.”

“Our entire strategy is basically, we decided this many years ago before it was popular, but you saw the Chinese app, the Chinese starting to build super apps, whereas the Western world built one app per use case. We kind of adopted the Chinese super app idea a…”

“Thirty billion. Thirty billion. That's the estimated revenue from the, directly from the payment side of it.”

“That got us the top 15 in the App Store. And I think now we have forty million dollars following that GPT portfolio.”

“Took two days to build. We put it out there and it immediately took off, right? It was absolutely shocking because I built it on a weekend. We put it out there. I call my close founder on Monday and like, it's at the top of the app store. We're getting like, 6…”

“The social network that we had at the time, we actually removed it from the App Store, so it's not available anymore. But till today, there are people, there are thousands of people that are using it, posting on it, and all the different things”

“The app store is going to be chaos.”

“There's tons of those, but there's going to be like a hundred of them in the app store in like two months. And then Cal AI will not be able to charge what they are.”

“When we started Floor, there were like dozens, maybe hundreds of popular period trackers, and in top 10 of health and fitness category, five sets were period trackers, and it was the main motivation.”

“It seemed to strike such a chord that it became the number one paid app in the app store for the first week of 20 18. And then it hit number one again a month later.”

“A brand like Cabela's or Macy's is spending at least a million dollars per app store today.”

“We actually were the first app that got pulled.”

“Tens. Tens of apps.”

“In, in Unglu case, we had that kind of one capability that no one else had, which is We had a hardware component, and they could, their terms of service did not include that, and that allows me to bring the app back to the app store.”