What took off on Android, 31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026
The week's Android apps in one page: the fastest risers and what happened alongside them, the biggest rank climbs, breakouts, launches, the biggest delistings, newly featured listings, the hottest categories and rising themes.
Week closed pieced together afterwards from our historyAndroid
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Top risers
Trending: the fastest growth this week, as a percentage of users, installs or ratings - so smaller listings taking off lead, not the giants.
Google Play re-crawls most listings about every two weeks, so a past week's growth cannot be told apart from the week before.
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Breakouts
Listings launched in the last 60 days that are already big.
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HD Camera: Sweet Beauty launched 24 Jul 26M installs
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Ultra HD Camera: Camera Plus launched 31 Jul 19M installs
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FreeDrama launched 6 Aug 15M installs
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Palmistry - AI Palm Reader launched 9 Jul 12M installs
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Prank Video Call With Idol launched 7 Aug 10M installs
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Notable launches
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ShinCraft: Speed Awakens launched 2 Sep 2M installs
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Bride Wedding DressUp & Makeup launched 3 Sep 1.8M installs
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City Coach Bus 3D Bus Driving launched 3 Sep 1.5M installs
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Alliance: Air War launched 31 Aug 1.5M installs
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Romantic Stickers Kiss Sticker launched 3 Sep 1.3M installs
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Top risers are ranked by this week's growth as a percentage: in ratings on Chrome, Edge and Apple, installs on Android and daily users on Firefox. A riser grew at least 5%, from a real size, and listings whose numbers don't add up are left out. The grey line under a riser is something else that happened to it in the last two weeks, like a new version or a competitor leaving - not necessarily the reason it rose. This week's edition updates after every crawl and closes on Monday (00:00 UTC). Weeks before editions began were pieced together from our history, so some sections are missing for them. How the data is collected →