Sensor Tower: Mobile Apps Spendings increased by 20% in 2021
Another good year for the industry.
By the end of the year, apps are expected to earn $133B. In 2020 revenue was $111.1B.
$89.6B of the sum will belong to the game industry. Growth to 2020 ($79.6B) will be 12.6%.
Despite the revenue increase, the share of games in overall apps revenue will decrease from 71.7% in 2020 to 67.4% in 2021.
App Store will bring $52.3B (9.9% YoY growth) by the end of the year. The best game on the platform will be Honor of Kings with $2.9B of revenue (+16% YoY).
Google Play will add $37.3B (+16% YoY) to the overall amount. The leader will be Coin Master with $912M (+13% YoY).
The number of game downloads will decrease compared to last year, from 56.2B to 55.3B. 84% of all games downloads will come from Google Play.