Shadowrocket remains rank 1 on App Store Top Paid on August 29, 2026 at $2.99, the same price and slot as the recurring paid-utilities board. HotSchedules and AnkiMobile Flashcards hold 2 and 3, with AnkiMobile at $24.99 on the U.S. store. Versus August 27, Paprika Recipe Manager 3 slides from 6 to 9, Monash FODMAP Diet from 7 to 8, and QuickBend from 8 to 10. MilGPS and RadarScope drop off. SkyView at $2.99 and NightCap Camera at $2.99 are new ranks 6 and 7, a stargazing pair that matches the August 28 lunar eclipse.
Top trending paid apps on the App Store: August 29
Shadowrocket: Rule-based proxy client by Li Guangming, $2.99, version 2.2.90 noted on the store page. Rank 1 on August 27 as well. First released April 14, 2015 per AppAgg's history, with a 4.5 rating on 11,791 votes in that tracker.
HotSchedules: Employee scheduling client, rank 2 on August 27 and rank 2 today. Recurring hospitality fixture. No same-day version event was attached in the fetches used here.
AnkiMobile Flashcards: Official Anki iOS app at $24.99, priced as a computer application because sales fund Anki and AnkiWeb. The store page says it has been around since 2010 and supports decks above 100,000 cards. Rank 3 both days.
TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome: Tuner and metronome at $6.99. Rank 4 on August 27 and rank 4 today. Recurring music-education buy.
Procreate Pocket: iPhone painting app, rank 5 both days. The U.K. store page listed £5.99; the U.S. listing was not recaptured in this run, so that sterling figure is the sourced price.
SkyView: Augmented-reality stargazing app at $2.99, citing over 3.2 million downloads and all 88 constellations. New versus August 27. The August 28 eclipse (96.2 percent umbral coverage at 04:12 UTC) is the obvious same-week sky event.
NightCap Camera: Long Exposure: Long-exposure camera at $2.99, one-time purchase. Version 10 adds handheld alignment, aurora time-lapse, and Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later. New versus August 27. Also sits next to SkyView as eclipse-week photography.
Monash FODMAP Diet: Official Monash University IBS diet app at $7.99, with a traffic-light food guide and over 70 recipes. Rank 7 on August 27, rank 8 today. The university cites about 75 percent of people with IBS getting symptom relief on the diet.
Paprika Recipe Manager 3: Recipe manager at $4.99. Rank 6 on August 27, rank 9 today, a 3-place slip. Sync, grocery lists, and site download remain the listed features.
QuickBend: Conduit Bending: Electrical-trade calculator, rank 8 on August 27, rank 10 today. Recurring trades utility. MilGPS and RadarScope, ranks 9 and 10 on August 27, are the drop-offs that opened these slots.
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What changed on App Store Top Paid since August 27
New entrants: SkyView (6), NightCap Camera: Long Exposure (7).
Big movers: none of 5 or more ranks. Paprika 6 to 9; QuickBend 8 to 10; Monash 7 to 8.
Drop-offs: MilGPS (was 9), RadarScope (was 10).
What today's paid App Store board reveals
The top 5 is frozen: proxy, scheduling, flashcards, tuner, drawing. The new activity is astronomy. SkyView and NightCap entering together after a 96.2 percent partial eclipse is a same-week use case, not a price cut.
Paprika and QuickBend sliding is ordinary churn at the bottom. AnkiMobile at $24.99 still sets the price ceiling on this top 10 versus several $2.99 utilities.
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