WiFinder is an application that makes it easy to browse wireless networks. It can detect if Open networks are actually usable, or if they’ll redirect you to a login page instead. It’s also turned out to be widely used by IT professionals just scoping out their turf. Below is some sales data on it.
This chart is an approximation of US AppStore daily sales (count on the left) versus sales rank (on the bottom). Note that the numbers are approximate, as there are daily preview details provided, but when you get the final end of week stats, the numbers don’t always match up. I’ve done the best I could to clean them up, but think of this as approximate. Also, WiFinder went from off-chart when released, rose up to about 34th, and has since fallen back off the top-100.
WiFinder Sales versus Rank
US AppStore sales have amounted to between 1/4 and 1/6 of my total sales. I suspect that my foreign store sales would be higher, but there’s a fairly bad bug with network accessibility detection in some countries (fix has been “In Review” since 8/25 – hopefully up soon!).
As a couple of other interesting data points, WiFinder reached 11th in the UK AppStore on a daily sales of roughly 275, and reached 3rd in the German AppStore with daily sales of roughly 750. So I believe that those stores have a lower volume of paid application sales than the US AppStore, but they’re still both pretty large!
September 11, 2008 at 8:46 am |
How do you even get daily sales numbers? All I see in iTunes Connect is 4 modules, “Contracts, Tax & Bank info”, “Financial Reports”, “Manage Users” and “Manage Your Applications”. I wrote to iTunesAppReporting@apple.com, but never got a reply. Heh, is anybody home? Does Apple really exist?
November 30, 2008 at 4:04 pm |
do you have an update on install figures that include your time as a free app?
Interesting reading – thanks
November 30, 2008 at 9:02 pm |
Sorry, but I haven’t been tracking it as closely as the paid data, for obvious reasons
I’ve peeked a couple of times, and as a ~58th application in the US, that’s about 5-6k downloads per day. I’ve been hitting around 40k downloads per day worldwide. Hope that helps!
December 26, 2008 at 1:43 am |
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