App Store free apps this week: week of August 1, 2026
TikTok Pro Events retakes number 1 on App Store Top Free on August 1, 2026, rising from rank 2 on July 31 while Capital One Mobile slips to rank 2 on the Trends MCP board. Trends MCP get_top_trends returned 50 apps (as_of 2026-08-01T06:01:41 UTC) for type App Store Top Free. New versus July 31: CapCut: Photo & Video Editor at rank 14 and DoorDash: Food, Grocery, More at rank 15. Google climbs from rank 15 to rank 9. This post lists 15 of 50 items with a why line for each.
Top trending apps on the App Store (Top Free): August 1
TikTok Pro - Events: An iOS events companion on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 1 after rank 2 on July 31, reclaiming the board lead from Capital One Mobile. TikTok launched this United States standalone events app in early June 2026 around FIFA World Cup fan challenges and rewards.
Capital One Mobile: An iOS banking app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 2 after rank 1 on July 31. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026. The bank account app remains a habitual free-chart fixture for bill pay and card management.
Netflix Game Controller: An iOS companion controller on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 3 after rank 4 on July 31. Netflix's controller app stays tied to TV and browser Netflix Games sessions.
ChatGPT: An iOS AI assistant on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 4 after rank 3 on July 31. OpenAI's ChatGPT iOS app remains a habitual top-free AI download on the Trends MCP board.
Atom - Movie Tickets & Times: An iOS movie ticketing app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 5, unchanged from July 31. Residual chart demand after the July 31 Spider-Man: Brand New Day wide opening is a plausible weekend driver, though no separate Atom product news was widely reported for August 1, 2026.
Depop - Buy & Sell Clothes: An iOS resale marketplace on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 6 fixture beside Vinted. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026.
Vinted: Pre-loved marketplace: An iOS secondhand fashion app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 7 fixture on the Trends MCP board. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026.
Threads: An iOS social app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 8, unchanged from July 31. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026.
Google: An iOS search app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 9 after rank 15 on July 31, a six-place climb inside the published 15. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026.
WhatsApp Messenger: An iOS messaging app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 10, unchanged from July 31. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026.
Google Gemini: An iOS AI assistant on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 11 after rank 12 on July 31. Habitual top-free assistant download on the Trends MCP board.
Claude by Anthropic: An iOS AI assistant on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 12 after rank 11 on July 31. Habitual top-free AI download on the Trends MCP board.
T-Life: An iOS carrier account app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 13, unchanged from July 31. Residual download demand after the July 27, 2026 T-Mobile outage week.
CapCut: Photo & Video Editor: An iOS video editor on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 14 and new versus July 31. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026; residual creator-tool demand is the best reading.
DoorDash: Food, Grocery, More: An iOS food delivery app on the August 1 App Store Top Free chart. Rank 15 after rank 25 on July 31, a ten-place climb into the published cut. No widely reported trigger identified for August 1, 2026.
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What changed on the App Store (Top Free) since yesterday
Compared with the July 31, 2026 App Store Top Free daily post, several published ranks shifted on the August 1 board.
New entrants: CapCut: Photo & Video Editor at rank 14; DoorDash: Food, Grocery, More at rank 15.
Big movers: TikTok Pro Events from rank 2 to rank 1; Capital One Mobile from rank 1 to rank 2; Google from rank 15 to rank 9; DoorDash from rank 25 to rank 15.
Drop-offs from the July 31 top 15: Capital One Shopping: Save Now (was rank 9) and ParentSquare (was rank 14).
Stable mid-chart: Depop through Threads hold ranks 6 to 8 across both snapshots.
What the App Store free chart shows on August 1
Events social and banking again trade the free podium, with AI utilities clustered just below. The clearest day-over-day move on August 1, 2026 is TikTok Pro Events reclaiming rank 1 while Google jumps six places to rank 9 and DoorDash enters at rank 15 from rank 25.
Across the published top 15 of 50 API rows, habitual fixtures (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, WhatsApp) sit beside movie tickets and resale apps. CapCut at rank 14 reads as residual creator demand, not a confirmed August 1 product news spike.
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These ranks came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends API on August 1, 2026, using type App Store Top Free and limit 50. The feed serves analysts, marketers, and agent workflows that need live boards. Related page: https://www.trendsmcp.ai/social-media-trends-api.
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- Previous day: https://www.trendsmcp.ai/trending/app-store-free-trending-july-31-2026
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- Cross-platform guide: https://www.trendsmcp.ai/blog/best-cross-platform-trend-analysis-tools-2026