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STORE INTELLIGENCE · KATIE WILLIAMS · FEBRUARY 2020

Top Grossing Apps Worldwide for January 2020

See the top grossing non-game apps worldwide for January 2020 according to Sensor Tower data.

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The top grossing non-game app worldwide for January 2020 was Tinder with $85.9 million in user spending. Approximately 40 percent of Tinder’s revenue was from the United States, followed by 7.2 percent from Great Britain and 4.7 percent from Brazil. The full ranking of the top grossing non-game apps for January 2020 is above. App revenue estimates are from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform.

YouTube was the second highest earning non-game app worldwide for January 2020 with $65.5 million in gross revenue, which represented 84.5 percent year-over-year growth from January 2019. About 58 percent of YouTube’s revenue was from the U.S., followed by 7.9 percent from Japan. The next top grossing app was Netflix, followed by iQIYI and Disney+.

Want to see how the rankings compared to the previous month? Check out the Top Grossing Apps Worldwide for December 2019.

Store Intelligence users can see app revenue and app download estimates for the above apps in addition to historical performance metrics on the Sensor Tower platform. Our revenue estimates are from the App Store and Google Play worldwide between January 1, 2019 and January 31, 2020 and represent gross user spending. These rankings do not include app revenue from third-party Android stores.

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Katie Williams

Written by: Katie Williams, Mobile Insights Strategist

Date: February 2020