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title: The biggest App Store developers are the ones you've never heard of
author: Giacomo Balli
published: 2026-07-24
url: https://BigBalli.com/blog/the-biggest-app-store-developers-are-the-ones-youve-never-heard-of
tags: Engineering, iOS, Product, Business
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# The biggest App Store developers are the ones you've never heard of

*By Giacomo Balli* | *Published: July 24, 2026*

The biggest players are the ones you have never heard of

Ask anyone who the biggest developers on the App Store are and they will say Google, Meta, maybe Microsoft.

By number of apps, the answer is a gym software company (947 apps), a restaurant ordering platform (854), a magazine distributor (659) and a gym membership system (599).

9,081 church apps share one software vendor. 4,254 school apps share another. Around 40,000 live apps are the same product with a different logo, each one paid for monthly by a small business or a congregation.

None of these companies is famous. All of them own a trade. They did not build a better app than Google. They picked one kind of customer, learned everything about how that customer bills, schedules and communicates, and became the default.

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