Top trending free apps on App Store: August 23, 2026
NBA 2K HQ is #1 on App Store Top Free on August 23, two days after 2K launched the NBA 2K27 companion and retired MyNBA 2K. ChatGPT falls from #1 on August 21 to #3. 7 Brew Coffee holds #2. Threads and Google Gemini dropped off. Temu and KICK entered.
Top trending free apps on the App Store: August 23
NBA 2K HQ
2K's companion for NBA 2K27 launched August 21 at 8:00 a.m. PT, five days before Early Access on August 26, per 2K Newsroom. The app replaces MyNBA 2K, delisted August 18. Full MyPLAYER builder, crew chat, and face scan sit in one client. New #1.
7 Brew Coffee
The Arkansas drive-thru chain's first app holds #2 after sitting at #2 on August 21. USA Today coverage of the August 12 launch remains the last dated print. No new August 23 menu drop was found.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's assistant falls from #1 on August 21 to #3. No August 23 model announcement was attached; the move is a rank loss to NBA 2K HQ.
ReelShort - Stream Drama & TV
A new #4 short-drama client. No widely reported August 23 premiere was found. VibeShort: AI Short Dramas was #7 on August 21 and is gone.
Netflix Game Controller
Netflix's phone-as-controller app rises from #9 on August 21 to #5. No new version note dated August 23 was found.
TikTok Pro - Events
TikTok's events client falls from #3 to #6. June 2026 launch coverage still describes the product; no August 23 event was attached.
Vinted: Pre-loved marketplace
Holds inside the top 10 (August 21 #4, now #7). No August 23 product note was found.
Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire
A new #8. No widely reported August 23 U.S. campaign was found. The app was absent from August 21's published cut.
Depop - Buy & Sell Clothes
Etsy's resale app slips from #6 to #9. Still paired with Vinted as a secondhand cluster.
KICK - Live Streaming
A new #10 live-streaming client. No widely reported August 23 feature drop was found.
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What changed on the App Store since yesterday
No August 22 App Store Top Free daily ran.
New: NBA 2K HQ (#1), ReelShort - Stream Drama & TV (#4), Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire (#8), KICK - Live Streaming (#10).
Drop-offs: ParentSquare, VibeShort: AI Short Dramas, Threads, Google Gemini.
Big movers: ChatGPT #1 to #3. TikTok Pro - Events #3 to #6. Netflix Game Controller #9 to #5. 7 Brew Coffee holds #2.
What today's the App Store trends reveal
The free iOS board is a sports-companion launch, not another chatbot shuffle. NBA 2K HQ at #1 is dated: August 21 ship, August 26 Early Access, September 4 NBA 2K27. ChatGPT's drop to #3 is the vacancy that launch created.
7 Brew Coffee at #2 is still the August 12 chain app, a holdover. Resale (Vinted, Depop) remains, with Temu inserting a cheap-goods row. Threads and Gemini leaving the cut is the social/AI trim. See best app store trend research tools.
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This list is the August 23 get_top_trends snapshot for type App Store Top Free with limit 10. Teams that watch ranks as they move, not after a recap, can call the same feed as new rows arrive. The generating call:
{
"type": "App Store Top Free",
"limit": 10
}
See the App Store Top Free API page for source notes.