Apple says games get the most downloads by iOS users, according to USA Today.
The company released its top 25 download apps—both paid and free—as the App Store gets closer to 50 billion downloads.
Fifteen of the 25 apps most downloaded by iPad users were games. Out of those numbers five of the top six were games. On the list of free apps, seven are games.
For the iPhone 21 of the top 25 paid apps are games and for the free apps six are games.
Among the games is the “Angry Birds” franchise. In addition to the original “Angry Birds”, the game’s successors, “Angry Birds Seasons” and “Angry Birds Space”, are also popular.
Despite the immense success that games for Apple devices have had, they cannot compete with social networking. Facebook was the most downloaded free app for the iPhone and the “WhatsApp” Messenger was the most downloaded paid app. Instagram and YouTube were in the top five.
For the iPad, the word processing app “Pages” took home the top spot for the paid category.
Here are the full rankings:
Top 25 paid apps of all time for iPhone
1. Angry Birds
2. Fruit Ninja
3. Doodle Jump
4. Cut the Rope
5. Angry Birds Seasons
6. WhatsApp Messenger
7. Camera+
8. Words With Friends
9. Tiny Wings
10. Angry Birds Space
11. Pocket God
12. Plants vs. Zombies
13. The Game of Life
14. The Moron Test
15. Where's My Water
16. Draw Something
17. Monopoly
18. Angry Birds Star Wars
19. MotionX GPS Drive
20. Skee-Ball
21. Scrabble
22. Uno
23. Minecraft -- Pocket Edition
24. Color Splash
25. The Sims 3
Top 25 free apps of all time for iPhone
1. Facebook
2. Pandora
3. Instagram
4. YouTube
5. Skype
6. Words With Friends Free
7. The Weather Channel
8. Twitter
9. Temple Run
10. Google Search
11. Netflix
12. Shazam
13. Angry Birds Free
14. Draw Something Free
15. Flashlight
16. Facebook Messenger
17. Google Earth
18. Fruit Ninja Free
19. iHeartRadio
20. Movies by Flixster, with Rotten Tomatoes
21. Bump
22. eBay
23. Pac-Man Lite
24. Groupon
25. Google Maps
Top 25 paid apps of all time for iPad
1. Pages
2. Angry Birds HD
3. Angry Birds Seasons HD
4. Where's My Water?
5. Fruit Ninja HD
6. Angry Birds Space HD
7. GarageBand
8. Words With Friends HD
9. Cut the Rope HD
10. Keynote
11. Numbers
12. Angry Birds Star Wars HD
13. GoodReader for iPad
14. Scrabble HD for iPad
15. Minecraft – Pocket Edition
16. Plants vs. Zombies HD
17. Notability
18. Monopoly for iPad
19. Quickoffice Pro HD
20. StarWalk HD
21. Draw Something
22. iMovie
23. iPhoto
24. Where's My Perry?
25. Bad Piggies HD
Top 25 free apps of all time for iPad
1. Skype
2. The Weather Channel
3. Netflix
4. Angry Birds HD Free
5. Kindle
6. Facebook
7. Pandora Radio
8. Calculator for iPad Free
9. Fruit Ninja HD Free
10. Words With Friends HD Free
11. Google Earth
12. ABC Player
13. Calculator Pro for iPad Free
14. Temple Run
15. YouTube
16. eBay
17. CNN
18. Dropbox
19. Adobe Reader
20. Twitter
21. Solitaire
22. New York Times
23. Temple Run 2
24. Hulu Plus
25. Draw Something Free
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