Apple Unveils New Lists Of All-Time Top Apps As It Counts Down To 50 Billion Downloads

A couple of days ago, Apple began counting down to the 50 billionth app to be downloaded in the App Store. In celebration of this milestone, the company, which launched the App Store nearly five years ago, announced a promo rewarding whoever downloads said app with a $10,000 App Store gift card. In line with this, Apple also revealed its updated lists of all-time top iPhone and iPad apps. Without further ado, here are the new charts listing the most downloaded paid and free iPhone and iPad apps of all time — that is, until the App Store hits another milestone. Just click on the name of any app to download it in the App Store. For the top 25 all-time paid iPhone apps:

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 Classic Edition
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

For the top 25 all-time free iPhone apps:

1. Facebook
2. Pandora Radio
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

For the top 25 all-time paid iPad apps:

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. Star Walk HD
21. Draw Something
22. iMovie
23. iPhoto
24. Where's My Perry?
25. Bad Piggies HD

And finally, for the top 25 all-time free iPad apps:

1. Skype for iPad
2. The Weather Channel for iPad
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 for iPad
17. CNN App for iPad
18. Dropbox
19. Adobe Reader
20. Twitter
21. Solitaire
22. NYTimes for iPad
23. Temple Run 2
24. Hulu Plus
25. Draw Something Free

So, there you have it. Are your own favorite apps included in App Store's all-time "favorites"?

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