ChatGPT remains rank 1 on App Store Top Free on August 30, 2026, the same slot as August 29. Vinted and TikTok Pro - Events hold 2 and 3. The mover set is the bottom: NBA 2K HQ (rank 4 yesterday) is gone, 7 Brew Coffee climbs 5 to 4, and three new names, ReelShort, ESPN Fantasy Sports & More, and Netflix Game Controller, fill 5 through 7. WhatsApp Messenger falls 8 to 10. A App Store Top Free API pull is the source of the ranks. Snapshot time is 2026-08-30T02:01:37.593716+00:00.
Top trending free apps on the App Store: August 30
ChatGPT: OpenAI assistant, rank 1 on August 29 and rank 1 today. Recurring free-chart leader rather than a same-day model launch.
Vinted: Pre-loved marketplace: Secondhand clothing marketplace, rank 2 both days.
TikTok Pro - Events: TikTok events client, rank 3 both days. Distinct from the main TikTok app, which is not on this ten.
7 Brew Coffee: Drive-thru coffee chain app, rank 5 on August 29, rank 4 today. Recurring regional food-service download.
ReelShort - Stream Drama & TV: Vertical short-drama streamer. New versus August 29. No widely reported catalog event was attached in the fetches used here.
ESPN Fantasy Sports & More: Fantasy football client. New versus August 29. Week 0 college football on X (Stanford, Florida State) is the same-weekend sports context, not an ESPN press release tied to this row.
Netflix Game Controller: Netflix games companion. New versus August 29. Netflix's Death of the Pastor's Wife (August 26) and The Whisper Man (August 28) are same-week streaming news, not a documented reason this controller app jumped.
Google: Google app, rank 6 on August 29, rank 8 today.
Threads: Meta text app, rank 9 both days.
WhatsApp Messenger: Messaging app, rank 8 on August 29, rank 10 today. Claude by Anthropic and Google Gemini, ranks 7 and 10 yesterday, are the drop-offs that opened these slots.
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What changed on App Store Top Free since August 29
New entrants: ReelShort - Stream Drama & TV (5), ESPN Fantasy Sports & More (6), Netflix Game Controller (7).
Big movers: none of 5 or more ranks. 7 Brew Coffee 5 to 4; Google 6 to 8; WhatsApp 8 to 10.
Drop-offs: NBA 2K HQ (was 4), Claude by Anthropic (was 7), Google Gemini (was 10).
What today's App Store free board reveals
The top 3 is frozen: ChatGPT, Vinted, TikTok Pro. Yesterday's story was NBA 2K HQ at 4 after the August 21 launch and August 26 Early Access; that row is gone in one day. Fantasy and short-drama apps replaced the other two AI assistants at 7 and 10.
Google Play on this run is a completely different ten (WhatsApp through Google Photos) and is identical to August 29. The two stores are not echoing each other this morning.
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This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends feed for App Store Top Free with limit 10 as of 2026-08-30T02:01:37.593716+00:00. The matching data source page is App Store Top Free API.
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