For indie iOS and Mac developers
Big apps are slipping. Their unhappy users are telling you what to build.
Fruitfall finds top-grossing App Store apps (est. $20k+ MRR) whose ratings have recently fallen, and sums up what their unhappy users are asking for. Build the better version and win those customers.
1,697 apps at est. $20K+/mo with a flat or falling rating . Estimated MRR of $20K or more and a written-review rating over the last 90 days at or below the app's best 90-day window. 338 fell beyond sampling noise; 639 are at their peak. 1,473 have a reason verdict so far. 2,624 apps tracked in total. · cancel any time
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Real apps from the catalog. Each sample opens its full breakdown for free: the rating history, the low-star reviews behind the drop, and why it fell.
MRR figures are estimated ranges from chart rank, not reported revenue. How we estimate
How it works
From a falling rating to a product brief
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Step 1
We watch the money
Fruitfall records where apps sit on Apple's top-grossing charts and keeps the ones whose rank suggests an estimated $20k+ MRR.
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Step 2
We read the reviews
Written reviews are averaged in 90-day windows. When an app falls from its best window, the low-star reviews are sorted by why: a worse product, a price change, locked-in users, or an OS change.
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Step 3
You pick one to build
Filter by genre, by reason, and by the data you'd have to buy. Open an app for the complaints behind the drop and an on-demand brief: must-haves, monthly running costs, and a starter prompt.
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- All 1,697 apps at est. $20K+/mo with a flat or falling rating, the ones worth building first (338 fell beyond sampling noise), with filters for genre, reason, and the data you'd have to buy.
- The complaints behind each drop, from recent 1–2 star reviews.
- An on-demand brief per app: what you'd need to build, monthly running costs, and a starter prompt.
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How "est. MRR" is made
Every revenue figure here is an estimate of gross monthly revenue on the US App Store (iPhone and iPad, before Apple's cut). We take an app's best US iPhone top-grossing rank in its category over the last 30 days and convert it with a per-category curve fit to Sensor Tower's public US estimates. It is not reported revenue.
Most calibration points are top-10 apps, so figures for ranks deep in a chart lean on the curve's shape more than on direct data. Read them as a scale, not a quote.
The headline number is the middle of an 80% range, shown next to it. Genres with few or no calibration points of their own get much wider ranges and a dotted underline. The default floor is $20k on that middle estimate. Use it to decide what's worth a look, then read the reviews.
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