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Top growing niches

A monthly read on where App Store revenue is moving, taken from the same estimates the product runs on. Every edition states the floors it applied and the concentration behind each move.

Top growing niches — August 2026

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Growth was near-universal in August: 293 of the 316 niches that clear our reporting floors grew month over month, and only 22 fell. Almost every large move is a handful of apps scaling rather than a market opening — the notes below say which.

  1. 1Action Rescue & PlatformerGames+388.5%
  2. 2Simulation: Xianxia & CultivationGames+211.0%
  3. 3Video Editing & Cleanup ToolsPhoto & Video+97.4%
  4. 4MOBA & Hero ArenaGames+90.6%
  5. 5Fishing Simulation & CasualGames+58.5%
  6. 6Pachinko & Slot SimulationGames+58.4%
  7. 7Practice ToolMusic+37.3%
  8. 8Fitness, Rhythm & SimulationGames+30.2%
  9. 9Open World MMORPG & RPGGames+26.6%
  10. 10RPG Martial Arts & WuxiaGames+16.4%

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