iOS Top app list...how is it calculated?

[jsnuff1]

I thought that the top app list was simply the apps that have the most downloads, but now with two apps that have been on the top 100 list I know that is not the case.

My first app was in the 80's after a week. When my second app came out it hit the top 100 and past my first app on the second day, so I got all excited and thought it must have past the download count of my first app to beat it. Unfortunately that was not the case. All I know is that the second app has about twice as many downloads per day than the first app...so I guess they just rank them by downloads/day?

 

[admanimal]

Right, it's just downloads per day or something like that. They can't do all-time downloads or new apps would have no chance against older ones.

 

[DipDog3]

so I guess they just rank them by downloads/day?

What was the downloads per day for each of them?

 

[SwampThingTom]

What was the downloads per day for each of them?

Apple doesn't make that public so unless the developer releases it, there's no way to know.

Tom

 

[johnnybluejeans]

I have been wondering this myself. It is certainly not a matter of total downloads, but a matter of downloads per some amount of time. Not sure what that time is though.. I'm assuming some sort of running average of downloads per x number of hours.