Where Germany's App Store top 10 barely moves
· GameQuant Research
In the 90 days through Nov 11, 2026, only 18 different apps reached the top 10 of Germany's Top Free Food & Drink chart, and the typical one stayed there for 77 days. The same chart in the US had 30 apps, and the typical one lasted 13 days. News went the other way: 37 apps passed through Germany's top 10, against 18 in the US, where the News top 10 was the hardest to break into of every market GameQuant tracks.
Two numbers for one question
Every figure here comes from the daily Top Free charts between Aug 14 and Nov 11, 2026. The first number counts the different apps that reached a category's top 10 at least once. Ten is the lowest it can go: it would mean the same ten apps held every place for all 90 days. The second is the median number of days those apps spent in the top 10. Few apps and long stays make a top 10 that is hard to break into. Many apps and short stays make one that turns over quickly.
Germany and the US, side by side
| Category | Apps, Germany | Typical days, Germany | Apps, US | Typical days, US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | 18 | 77 | 30 | 13 |
| Productivity | 17 | 58 | 16 | 58 |
| Medical | 20 | 47 | 23 | 27 |
| News | 37 | 5 | 18 | 56 |
| Sports | 49 | 5 | 40 | 16 |
Apps: different apps in the top 10 over 90 days. Typical days: the median number of days those apps spent in the top 10.
Food & Drink: few apps, long stays
Germany's typical stay of 77 days is almost six times the US figure, and no other category in Germany came close: the next longest was 58 days, in Productivity. It is not the extreme case worldwide. In Argentina, 12 apps shared the Food & Drink top 10 and the typical one stayed for all 90 days. In the US, three apps held a place on every single day: 7 Brew Coffee, DoorDash and McDonald's.
News: open in Germany, closed in the US
Germany's News top 10 had 37 different apps in 90 days, and the typical one stayed for five days. France looked much the same, with 38 apps and eight days. In the US, 18 apps passed through, and five of them held a place every single day: Reddit, NewsBreak, Substack, X and Nextdoor. With a typical stay of 56 days, no market's News top 10 was harder to break into. Turkey's was the most open, with 46 apps and a typical stay of six days.
Productivity: the same in both
In Productivity, 17 apps reached Germany's top 10 and 16 reached the US one, and the typical stay was 58 days in both. In the US, five apps never left: Gmail, ChatGPT, Claude by Anthropic, Google Gemini and Grok AI. The UK top 10 was tighter still, with 16 apps and a typical stay of 72 days.
At the top of the German chart
On Nov 11, the #1 free app in Germany was AOK Ident, a Utilities app from the health insurer AOK. Between Oct 11 and Oct 15 it climbed from #183 to #1. It was #1 on 6 of the last 30 days and in the top 10 on 28 of them. On Oct 14 it moved above Doctolib, which had ranked higher on each of the seven days before, and it has stayed ahead every day since.
Top Free · Apps · Germany
best rank recorded each day · 1 = top of the chart
- AOK Ident#1
- Doctolib#8
Show the numbers
| Date | AOK Ident | Doctolib |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2026 | – | 51 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 168 | 9 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 139 | 9 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 117 | 9 |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 110 | 14 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 120 | 14 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 160 | 24 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | – | 57 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 194 | 7 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 165 | 7 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 163 | 9 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 155 | 13 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 170 | 14 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | – | 23 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | – | 60 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | – | 12 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 195 | 6 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 173 | 11 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 124 | 15 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 94 | 15 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 122 | 23 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | – | 53 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 132 | 11 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 85 | 8 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 43 | 7 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 29 | 10 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 29 | 11 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 88 | 17 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 183 | 54 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 18 | 9 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 15 | 8 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 4 | 11 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 1 | 11 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 1 | 14 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3 | 17 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 8 | 45 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 3 | 7 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 3 | 9 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 2 | 10 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 4 | 11 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 3 | 12 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 5 | 15 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 14 | 55 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 2 | 8 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | 2 | 6 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 1 | 6 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | 1 | 10 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | 2 | 12 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2 | 16 |
| Nov 1, 2026 | 9 | 50 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 2 | 11 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | 2 | 6 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | 2 | 7 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | 2 | 10 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | 2 | 11 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 2 | 13 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | 6 | 43 |
| Nov 9, 2026 | 6 | 8 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | 1 | 7 |
| Nov 11, 2026 | 1 | 8 |
The store-wide chart turns over too: 52 apps passed through Germany's Top Free Apps top 10 in 90 days, and three held a place every single day: ChatGPT, Claude by Anthropic and Google Gemini. Below the very top, the German chart is a market of its own. Of the 50 top free apps in Germany on Nov 11, 30 were not in the US top 200, among them AOK Ident, Nect Wallet and OTTO.
Where to see the rest
The table for all 23 categories is on the Germany page, next to the country's top 10 lists and its biggest climbers. Each category page compares the same two numbers across markets, for example Food & Drink and News. A top 10 with more turnover is often a smaller one, so these numbers measure competition, not opportunity.
Category figures are from the App Store Top Free charts, Aug 14 to Nov 11, 2026. Ranks for single apps are the best position each app held on the day.
Insights describe app store data from GameQuant's daily records, as of the dates given. They are not investment advice. You may quote figures and charts with the credit “Source: GameQuant” and a link to this page.