RANKRApp chart guides
How App Store and Google Play top charts work, and how to check your app's rank in every country.
How App Store top charts work
Top Free vs Top Paid, apps vs games, categories, iPhone vs Mac, and a separate chart for each of 175 countries. With real #1s from October 19, 2026.
Check your app's rank in other countries
The App Store and Google Play only show your own country's charts. Here's how to see where your app ranks in the other 174 storefronts.
How Google Play top charts work
How Google Play top charts work: Top Free, Top Paid and Top Grossing for apps and games in each country, and why the paid apps chart can be nearly empty.
Why Top Free and Top Grossing look so different
Why Top Free and Top Grossing look so different, with real Google Play top 5 lists from Japan and the US on the same day, October 19, 2026.
Why your app's rank changes so much
Real cases of apps climbing about 100 places in a day, why each country's chart moves on its own, and what a rank change does and doesn't tell you.