Skyhook in Action

Location Apps

Skyhook monitors every single location-enabled application as they are released in the iPhone App Store and Android Challenge. The data Skyhook has gathered on location apps shows an emerging and thriving marketplace of revenue-generating location-aware applications. For more information or to publish this information on your site, please email us at info@skyhookwireless.com.

iPhone App Store

Every day location-aware applications are added to the iPhone App Store. There are now nearly 500 location apps. Of these it's about a 65 / 35 split between paid and free apps.

Please note, this data was manually collected using information publicly available in the App Store.

iPhone Location Apps paid v free
Total iPhone Location Apps
App Store Apps by Type

Android Apps

Almost all of the Android Challenge 1 winners and finalists integrated location awareness into their applications.