The Most Expensive App Categories
A data story about premium app prices, price ceilings, and categories where paid apps cluster.
Highest listed prices
Categories with high price ceilings
| Category | Paid apps | Average paid price | Max price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shopping | 68 | $12.56 | $400 |
| Navigation | 231 | $11.78 | $400 |
| Education | 923 | $10.44 | $400 |
| Music | 593 | $10.34 | $300 |
| Games | 97 | $10.46 | $250 |
| Games Music | 84 | $5.84 | $250 |
| Games | 452 | $4.41 | $230 |
| Utilities | 643 | $6.15 | $200 |
| Medical | 293 | $13.89 | $190 |
| Productivity | 539 | $7.29 | $125 |
| Lifestyle | 391 | $5.67 | $120 |
| Finance | 242 | $5.17 | $120 |
| Entertainment | 379 | $5.13 | $119 |
| Maps & Navigation | 19 | $17.17 | $99.99 |
| Business | 236 | $12.95 | $99.99 |
| Auto & Vehicles | 41 | $12.77 | $99.99 |
| Medical | 87 | $12.12 | $99.99 |
| Business | 91 | $10.00 | $99.99 |
| Productivity | 87 | $7.39 | $99.99 |
| Entertainment | 113 | $6.53 | $99.99 |
How to read this report
This is an automatically refreshed data story. It is written from first-party crawl data, so the useful signal is not the prose template alone: it is the changing list of apps, categories, price points, and IAP events underneath it.
Data source
App Pricing Lab generates this page from crawled Apple App Store and Google Play data in its D1 database: app details, rankings, paid price fields, IAP snapshots, and detected IAP catalog changes. The page changes as the crawler discovers new apps and refreshes pricing data.