Which mobile apps are actually making money?

The problem it solves

Knowing in advance whether an app idea will make money is hard. The stores show downloads, not revenue, and the two are not the same thing. An app with a lot of downloads may earn nothing; a quiet-looking one may run on steady subscription income.

So the choice usually falls to instinct, and months of building end with the discovery that the demand was never there.

How it works

Trend Apps scans more than 12,000 iOS and Android apps daily and keeps, for each one, a monthly revenue estimate, a download estimate and revenue per user. Whether an app is profitable becomes clear when those three are read together: high downloads next to low revenue tells its own story.

You can narrow the list by category, platform (iOS, Android or both), revenue, downloads, rating and release date. Filtering to recently released apps on its own is the fastest way to see the spaces that have not yet filled up.

The iOS and Android top charts, free, paid and grossing, sit on one screen. Results export to CSV or Excel so they can feed your own analysis.

For anyone working with AI coding tools there is an MCP server, so the same data can be queried from inside the editor.

Who uses it

Developers, founders and product teams use it to check whether there is real money in a space before starting the next product. The same data answers a second question: where an app they already run stands against its competitors. The interface is in English.