Free App Store Revenue Estimates: Top Grossing Apps by Category

App revenue estimates used to be locked inside enterprise tools. If you wanted to know how much an app earns, you either paid for a market-intelligence subscription (Sensor Tower’s median contract is about $75,000 a year, according to Vendr) or guessed from press articles. Bloxks Analytics changes that: it shows free App Store revenue estimates for the top grossing, top free and top paid charts, filterable by category, with a dedicated page for every app.

In short

• What it is: a free page with live App Store charts and an estimated monthly revenue and download count for each app.
• Three charts, 20 categories: top grossing, top free and top paid, from Productivity to Games.
• One page per app: revenue, downloads, top grossing rank, rating, revenue history curve and screenshots.
• The data: Apple’s public charts for the US storefront, turned into dollars by a rank-to-revenue model.
• The limit: these are estimates, with a confidence level shown on each one.

Contents

• What Bloxks Analytics shows
• Trending or Top charts: the two tabs
• Filter the App Store charts by category
• Reading an app page
• The revenue history curve
• Download the stats card
• Use the charts to find an app idea
• Limits you should know
• Conclusion

What Bloxks Analytics shows

Bloxks Analytics is a public page at /analytics. No account, no trial, no sales call. It lists the apps currently ranked on the App Store and puts a dollar figure next to each one: the estimated monthly revenue, meaning what users spend in the app worldwide in a month, before Apple’s commission.

The numbers come from two public Apple sources. The first is the App Store RSS charts, the same rankings you see in the App Store app, for the United States storefront. The second is the iTunes lookup service, which gives each app’s name, category, price, rating, number of ratings and screenshots. Bloxks then applies an estimation model to turn a chart position into a revenue figure. We explain that model step by step in how app revenue is estimated.

To give you a sense of scale, here is the top of the overall top grossing chart as we read it on November 4, 2026:

Bloxks estimates, November 2026, gross worldwide revenue based on the US top grossing chart.

Trending or Top charts: the two tabs

The page opens on two tabs.

Trending surfaces apps that are climbing right now. It compares today’s top free ranking with the ranking from a few days earlier and highlights two kinds of apps: those that gained places, and those that just entered the chart. The top 50 of the top free chart is left out on purpose: those are the established giants, not what is rising. While the daily history is still too short, the tab falls back to a live signal: an app that sits high in top free but low or absent in top grossing is being downloaded faster than it earns, which often means it is breaking out.

Top charts shows the classic App Store rankings, with three choices:

• Top grossing: apps ranked by the money users spend in them. This is the most useful chart for revenue questions.
• Top free: apps ranked by downloads among free apps.
• Top paid: apps you pay for upfront, ranked by sales.

Each combination has its own URL that you can bookmark or share, for example /analytics?tab=charts&chart=top-free&category=6014 for the top free games. Lists show the top 50 apps and refresh every hour.

Filter the App Store charts by category

Twenty categories are available, from Medical, Sports and Travel to Games, Education, Finance, Photo & Video and Developer Tools. Picking one filters the chart to that App Store category.

One detail matters for reading revenue correctly. The rank shown in a category list is the rank inside that category, but the revenue estimate always uses the app’s position in the overall top grossing chart, all categories combined. Why? Because only the overall chart orders apps by absolute revenue. The number one Finance app may sit far below the number one game in the overall chart, and estimating it like a global number one would be wildly wrong.

That is why category lists can look surprising. On November 4, 2026, the top grossing Finance apps, such as TradingView and Rocket Money, were not in the overall top 100, so their estimates (around $1.1M a month each) carry a low confidence label. In Productivity, by contrast, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all sit high in the overall chart, so their estimates are labeled high confidence.

Reading an app page

Click any app to open its page at /analytics/app/ followed by its App Store ID. The page follows the logic of a professional app profile and shows:

• Estimated revenue per month, with its confidence level (high, medium or low).
• Estimated downloads per month, computed from how fast new reviews arrive.
• Top grossing rank in the overall US chart, or "Not ranked".
• Rating and number of reviews, straight from the App Store.
• The revenue history curve, when enough daily snapshots exist.
• Screenshots, the app’s description, its category, price and release date, plus a link to the App Store.

Take MyFitnessPal, the top grossing Health & Fitness app on November 4, 2026. Its page showed an estimated $4.1M a month with high confidence. Right behind it, Strava showed about $2.3M with medium confidence. Two clicks give you the economic picture of a whole category.

The revenue history curve

Rankings move every day, so a single number is a snapshot. To see the trend, each app page draws an estimated revenue history. Every day at 07:00 UTC, Bloxks saves the overall top grossing chart. The curve applies the same rank-to-revenue model to each day’s rank, so it shows how the app’s position translates into dollars over time.

Three things to know when you read it:

• History starts in late October 2026, when the daily snapshots began. It cannot be filled in backwards.
• An app needs at least two days in the chart to get a curve. If it drops out on a given day, that day has no point.
• The line is smoothed over three days so weekend dips and promotions don’t make it unreadable. The headline number above the curve is still today’s estimate.

When the history covers several days, a badge shows the change between the first and last point, for example "+12% over 9 days".

Download the stats card

Every app page has a Download stats card button. It produces a PNG image with the app’s key numbers, ready to drop into a pitch deck, a Notion page or a post. Downloading it asks you to sign in with a free Bloxks account; the rest of the page stays open to everyone.

Use the charts to find an app idea

Revenue data is most useful before you build. Here is a simple routine that takes about fifteen minutes:

1. Pick a category you understand. Open the top grossing chart for it. You now know which apps earn and roughly how much.
2. Look for crowded or empty spots. If five dating apps each earn millions, demand is proven but competition is fierce. If a category’s top earners all show low confidence, the money there is smaller and more spread out.
3. Switch to Trending. Rising apps show what people want right now, often before the revenue follows.
4. Open five app pages. Read the screenshots, the rating and the number of reviews. A popular app with a mediocre rating is an invitation to do better.
5. Write one sentence. "An app like X, but for Y." That is your brief.

Then you can move fast. On Bloxks, you describe the app in plain words and the AI builds it and publishes it on the App Store. Every app page also has a Build an app like this button that takes you straight there. If you want more context before you start, the Learn apps hub gathers our guides, and the founder stories show how 16 makers turned one app into a business.

Limits you should know

Bloxks Analytics is honest about what it is. A few limits to keep in mind:

• Estimates, not facts. Apple publishes no revenue figures. Every number is modeled, with a confidence level. Use them for orders of magnitude and comparisons, not for a valuation. Paid vendors face the same limit: Apptopia’s own benchmark put its revenue estimates at 65–80% accuracy on average.
• The US storefront as a proxy. Ranks come from the US charts and are used as a proxy for worldwide position. That works well at the top, less well for apps that are strong outside the US, such as some Asian games.
• The top grossing chart is short. Apple’s feeds return about 100 apps. Below that, estimates rely on downloads and price, with low confidence.
• Ads are mostly invisible. The top grossing chart reflects in-app purchases and subscriptions. An app that earns mainly from ads can be underestimated.
• Gross, not net. Apple keeps 15% to 30% (15% under its Small Business Program), and web payments are not counted at all.

If you need country-level data, Google Play, ad revenue or years of history, a paid tool is still the right call. We compare the options in free Sensor Tower alternatives.

Conclusion

Free app revenue estimates are now one click away: open Bloxks Analytics, pick a chart and a category, and click any app to see its estimated revenue, downloads and history. Treat the numbers as a compass rather than a bank statement, and check the confidence label. To go further, read how much money apps make by rank and category, then turn your idea into a real app on Bloxks.

Further reading: How to Create an App Easily in 2026: Tools, Steps & Budget · Top 10 Platforms to Build iOS Apps in 2026 (USA)