Top trending paid apps on App Store: August 25, 2026

Shadowrocket still leads App Store Top Paid on August 25, 2026, for a second straight day at #1. The real movement is lower: Wildwood: Follow the Crows falls from #5 to #7, while Monash FODMAP Diet, Streaks, and Foundations Memory Work C3 are new at #8 through #10. Antizuck Smart Glasses Scanner, PeakFinder, and SkyView, yesterday's #8 through #10, are gone.

Shadowrocket
The proxy and rule-based VPN client holds #1. Rank is unchanged from August 24. The U.S. App Store lists a $2.99 one-time price, version 2.2.90 dated July 7, and a 4.5 rating from about 12,000 reviews. It remains the paid-chart fixture for network tooling.
HotSchedules
The restaurant and hourly-work scheduling app holds #2. Rank is unchanged. Late-August hospitality staffing is the seasonal why, not a version headline.
AnkiMobile Flashcards
Holds #3. The U.S. App Store price is $24.99. Anki's listing says the iOS client has been around since 2010. Rank is unchanged from August 24.
Procreate Pocket
Holds #4. The iPhone illustration app is unchanged. No August 25 brush-pack launch was required to explain the hold.
TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome
Rises from #6 on August 24 to #5. The one-rank climb swaps with Paprika's neighbor move. Band-camp season is the seasonal why.
Paprika Recipe Manager 3
Rises from #7 to #6. Rank change is one slot. No recipe-app news desk story was dated August 25.
Wildwood: Follow the Crows
Falls from #5 to #7, a two-rank drop. The U.S. App Store lists it at $1.49, with version 1.0.1 dated August 9. The Portland Tribune dated the sculpture trail launch to August 7, running through October 30, with the Wildwood film set for October 23.
Monash FODMAP Diet
A new #8. The Monash University diet-tracking app is a digestive-health paid title. No widely reported August 25 study was attached at fetch time.
Streaks
A new #9. The habit-tracker from Crunchy Bagel is a recurring paid-chart visitor. No new OS-version requirement was dated August 25.
Foundations Memory Work C3
A new #10. The homeschool memory-work app is a late-August curriculum row. Cycle 3 in the title is the product SKU, not a news event.

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What changed on App Store paid since yesterday

New in the top 10 versus August 24: Monash FODMAP Diet (#8), Streaks (#9), Foundations Memory Work C3 (#10). Drop-offs: Antizuck Smart Glasses Scanner (#8), PeakFinder (#9), SkyView (#10). Big movers: none of 5 ranks. TonalEnergy from #6 to #5; Paprika from #7 to #6; Wildwood from #5 to #7. Shadowrocket, HotSchedules, AnkiMobile, and Procreate Pocket hold 1 through 4.

What today's App Store paid apps reveal

Network, shift, and study tools still occupy the top four. The interesting churn is the bottom three swapping from AR and stargazing (Antizuck, PeakFinder, SkyView) to diet, habits, and homeschool memory work. Wildwood is the only game left, two ranks lower.

That is a school-and-work paid board, not a hit-game board. For chart comparisons, see best App Store trend research tools.

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This ranked list is the August 25, 2026 get_top_trends snapshot for type App Store Top Paid with limit 10. Catalog teams that watch paid-chart churn can call the same feed as titles rotate. The generating call:

{
  "type": "App Store Top Paid",
  "limit": 10
}

See the App Store Top Paid API page for source notes.