App Store best sellers today: August 26, 2026
Shadowrocket still leads App Store Top Paid on August 26, 2026, for a third day at #1. The U.S. listing remains a $2.99 one-time price. HotSchedules holds #2 and AnkiMobile Flashcards holds #3 at $24.99. The surprise is the middle: TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome jumps from #5 to #4, Procreate Pocket slips to #5, and Wildwood: Follow the Crows, yesterday's #7 at $1.49, is gone. QuickBend: Conduit Bending is a new #9.
Top trending paid apps on App Store: August 26
Shadowrocket
Holds #1. Rank is unchanged from August 24 and August 25. 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 rule-based proxy tooling.
HotSchedules
Holds #2. Rank is unchanged for a third snapshot. 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 dates the iOS client to 2010. Rank is unchanged from August 24 and August 25.
TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome
Rises from #5 on August 25 to #4. Band-camp season remains the seasonal why. Rank change is one slot, swapping with Procreate Pocket.
Procreate Pocket
Falls from #4 to #5. The iPhone illustration app is a one-rank slip. No August 26 brush-pack launch was attached.
Paprika Recipe Manager 3
Holds #6. Rank is unchanged from August 25, when it had risen from #7. No recipe-app news desk story was dated August 26.
MilGPS
A new #7. The offline GPS and coordinate app is a field-utility row. No widely reported map-update dated August 26 was attached at fetch time.
Foundations Memory Work C3
Rises from #10 to #8. The homeschool Cycle 3 app is a two-rank climb into late-August curriculum season.
QuickBend: Conduit Bending
A new #9. The electrician calculator is a trades-utility row. No code-change headline was attached.
Monash FODMAP Diet
Falls from #8 to #10. The Monash University diet tracker stays on the board after entering yesterday. Streaks, yesterday's #9, is gone.
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What changed on App Store paid since yesterday
New in the top 10 versus August 25: MilGPS (#7), QuickBend: Conduit Bending (#9). Drop-offs: Wildwood: Follow the Crows (#7), Streaks (#9). Big movers: none of 5 ranks. TonalEnergy from #5 to #4; Procreate Pocket from #4 to #5; Foundations Memory Work C3 from #10 to #8; Monash FODMAP Diet from #8 to #10. Shadowrocket, HotSchedules, AnkiMobile, and Paprika hold 1, 2, 3, and 6.
What today's App Store paid apps reveal
Utility SKUs replaced a film-tie-in. Wildwood at $1.49 is off after two days. MilGPS at #7 and QuickBend at #9 are field calculators, not entertainment. Shadowrocket at $2.99 and AnkiMobile at $24.99 still lock 1 and 3.
Foundations Memory Work C3 climbing to #8 is the homeschool calendar, next to Monash at #10. For store-chart tooling, see best App Store trend research tools.
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This ranked list is the August 26, 2026 get_top_trends snapshot for type App Store Top Paid with limit 10. Product and research teams that watch paid-chart ranks as they move can call the same feed as new rows arrive. The generating call:
{
"type": "App Store Top Paid",
"limit": 10
}
See the App Store Top Paid API page for source notes.