Posted on June 17, 2009 - by Eric

Epic Iphone App Stats Roundup – 1st half ‘09

For the Iphone app stat junkies in all of us, here are a few substantial stat sharing posts around the net. Hopefully, these will assist you in your market positioning, marketing plan, etc. Here be yer stats!

UPDATED: 6 more stat-sharing goodness! + 1 more..
UPDATED AGAIN: added DAPPLE, Tube Exits, Bubble Gang and Black Shades

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Tube Exits ($2.99)
Sales: 2,000
June 2009

http://econsultancy.com/blog/4126-q-a-lance-stewart-on-developing-the-tube-exits-iphone-app

Black Shades ($0.99)
Sales: 1,000
June 2009
http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/06/black-shades-iphone-breaks-1000/

Bubble Gang ($1.99)
Sales: 4,300
March 2009
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=19398&highlight=ads

Wobble ($1.99)
sales: 165,000
Rank 5-10 = 8,000 – 8,500 sales/day
March 2009

http://chillifresh.com/2009/03/11/stats-to-appstore-rank/

Various NimbleBit apps
Revenue(5 apps): $189,880

http://www.nimblebit.com/2009/06/nimblebit-numbers/

Dapple ($1.99)
Sales: over 500
April 2009
http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/04/27/the-numbers-post-part-2/

Brushes ($4.99)
Sales: 40,000 copies
Featured in “The New Yorker”
May 2009

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/new-yorker-iphone-cover-boosts-sales-for-brushes-app/

Locavore ($2.99)
Sales: 5,681
Gross sales: $16,986.19
April 2009

http://enjoymentland.com/2009/04/21/locavores-first-month-in-the-app-store/

Scribattle ($2.99)
May 2009

http://www.nuthole.com/compute/programming/scribattle_lite_more_results.html

Compounds ($1.99)
1 month data
April 2009

http://www.theflyingjalapenolives.com/2009/04/app-store-sales-figures-for-our-iphone-app-compounds/

Bug Squash ($0.99)
1-month Sales: 2,8000
March 2009

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/16470-actual-sales-trend-data-1-ranked-kids-game-one-month.html

Sudoku Grab ($1.99)
Sales to date: 25,000 (as of june 15)
March 2009

http://sudokugrab.blogspot.com/2009/03/sales-stats-update-one-month-on-app.html

Tangled ($0.99)
Sales: 231
April 2009

http://billylavoie.blogspot.com/2009/04/sales-stats-for-week.html

Zoo Sounds ($0.99)
Sales: 928
May 2009

http://www.lawrenceingraham.com/the-macbreak-weekly-bump-iphone-app-sales-of-a-pick-of-the-week/

Hit Tennis ($0.99)
May 2009

http://www.markj.net/category/app-store/

Veiled Games (2 games)
not strictly 2009 but 2008-09
unit Sales: Up There (30,000) Payday (12,500)
April 2009

http://www.veiledgames.com/blog/?p=392

Sheepish ($3.99)
Rank to sales: #140: 500/day
May 2009

http://www.pixelthismobile.com/blog/2/05/2009/iphone-sales-figures

Shen Mansell (various games, now all free)
Sales: 4 games, after 6 months: $170}
June 2009

http://www.shenmansell.com/2009/06/13/my-big-fat-failure/

Flight Control ($0.99)
Rank to sales: #3-#1 = 15,000 to 30,000 / day
Total sales: 587,000
April 2009

http://firemintgames.blogspot.com/2009/04/flight-control-sales-numbers.html

MouthOff ($0.99)
Total Sales: 10,000 pounds
Unit sales: 24,500

http://ustwo.tumblr.com/tagged/stats

ZombieVille USA ($1.99)
June 2009

and found in the unity3d forum Zombieville USA at #50 equals to 1,000 to 2,000 / day