Emerging Top Free Apps on iOS: Classic Games, Social Mechanics, and Conveniences Rise This Week. Even though it appears that Apple has reverted many of the ranking algorithm changes it introduced two weeks ago, many older applications and games for both the iPhone and iPad devices have resurfaced on the top charts.
A couple of developers that have historically been beneficiaries of pay-per-install campaigns like Andreessen Horowitz-backed TinyCo and Sequoia-backed Pocket Gems have also pushed titles into the top of the charts. New Titles Within Top iPhone Free Apps List. Emerging Free iOS Apps: AddictingGames, Pearltrees and Unstoppable Robots. Once again, the free iOS charts showed lots of turnover, with no repeats from last week.
In addition to high profile releases from Adobe and Outfit7, Apple released several new apps for the launch of iOS 5, the most popular of which are still dominating the free app charts. For once games didn’t prove to be the biggest draw, with a healthy mix of new utilities showing on the charts covering everything from shopping to bookmarks. New Titles on the iPhone Free Apps List. Jailbreak 5.1 / 5.0.1 / 5 / 4.3.5 / 4.3.2 / 4.3.3 / 4.3.4 Untethered - iPad 2 Jailbreak.