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STORE INTELLIGENCE · JULIA CHAN · NOVEMBER 2019

Top Grossing Subscription Apps Worldwide for Q3 2019

See the top grossing subscription apps worldwide for Q3 2019 according to Sensor Tower data.

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The top grossing non-gaming subscription app worldwide for Q3 2019 was Tinder with more than $233 million in user spending, which represented 7 percent growth from Q3 2018. Approximately 43 percent of Tinder’s revenue was from the United States, followed by 7 percent from Great Britain and 5 percent from Brazil. The full ranking of the top grossing subscription apps for Q3 2019 is above. App revenue estimates are from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform.

YouTube was the second highest earning non-gaming subscription app worldwide for Q3 2019 with more than $164 million in gross revenue, a 2.3x year-over-year growth from Q3 2018. About 68 percent of YouTube’s revenue was from the U.S., followed by 7 percent from Japan. The next top grossing app was iQIYI, followed by Pandora and Tencent Video.

Want to see how the rankings compared to the previous quarter? Check out the Top Grossing Subscription Apps Worldwide for Q2 2019 here.

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 July 1, 2018 and September 31, 2019 and represent gross user spending. These rankings do not include app revenue from third-party Android stores.


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Julia Chan

Written by: Julia Chan, Mobile Insights Analyst

Date: November 2019