Shadowrocket remains rank 1 on App Store Top Paid on August 30, 2026 at $2.99, the same price and slot as August 29. HotSchedules and AnkiMobile Flashcards ($24.99) hold 2 and 3. Versus yesterday, Procreate Pocket climbs 5 to 4, TonalEnergy Tuner slips 4 to 5, Paprika Recipe Manager 3 climbs 9 to 7, and three new names replace NightCap Camera, Monash FODMAP Diet, and QuickBend. Snapshot time is 2026-08-30T02:01:37.593716+00:00. A App Store Top Paid API pull is the source of the ranks.
Top trending paid apps on the App Store: August 30
Shadowrocket: Rule-based proxy client by Li Guangming, $2.99, rank 1 on August 29 as well. First released April 14, 2015 per AppAgg's history cited yesterday, with a 4.5 rating on 11,791 votes in that tracker.
HotSchedules: Employee scheduling client, rank 2 both days. Recurring hospitality fixture.
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.
Procreate Pocket: iPhone painting app, rank 5 on August 29, rank 4 today. Yesterday's post cited a U.K. listing at £5.99.
TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome: Tuner and metronome at $6.99. Rank 4 on August 29, rank 5 today.
SkyView: Augmented-reality stargazing app at $2.99, citing over 3.2 million downloads and all 88 constellations. Rank 6 both days. The August 28 eclipse (96.2 percent umbral coverage at 04:12 UTC) is still the same-week sky event.
Paprika Recipe Manager 3: Recipe manager at $4.99. Rank 9 on August 29, rank 7 today, a 2-place rise.
Wildwood: Follow the Crows: Portland public-art trail companion by Wild In Art, $1.49, version 1.0.2, 74.23 MB on an Android mirror. Northwest Examiner said the trail opened August 7 with 30 sculptures, ahead of Laika's Wildwood film, with a mid-November auction for OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital. New versus August 29.
Gridiron 2026 College Football: FBS scores and schedules app by Tom Klimek, $3.99, 18th season, covering 138 FBS teams, updated August 13, 2026. New versus August 29, timed to Week 0 (Florida State 34-17, Stanford 37-27).
PeakFinder: Mountain identifier by PeakFinder GmbH, $4.99 on the U.S. store, more than 1,000,000 peaks, one-time purchase, no ads. First released in 2010 covering the Alps. New versus August 29.
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What changed on App Store Top Paid since August 29
New entrants: Wildwood: Follow the Crows (8), Gridiron 2026 College Football (9), PeakFinder (10).
Big movers: none of 5 or more ranks. Procreate Pocket 5 to 4; TonalEnergy 4 to 5; Paprika 9 to 7.
Drop-offs: NightCap Camera: Long Exposure (was 7), Monash FODMAP Diet (was 8), QuickBend: Conduit Bending (was 10).
What today's paid App Store board reveals
The top 3 is frozen: $2.99 proxy, scheduling, $24.99 flashcards. AnkiMobile at $24.99 still sets the price ceiling. The new activity is seasonal: a $1.49 Portland art-trail app, a $3.99 Week 0 football utility, and a $4.99 peak identifier.
NightCap leaving after one eclipse-week appearance is the photography fade. SkyView holding at 6 and $2.99 is the stargazing leftover. Gridiron at 9 is the only row that maps onto today's X football cluster.
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This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends feed for App Store Top Paid with limit 10 as of 2026-08-30T02:01:37.593716+00:00. The matching data source page is App Store Top Paid API.
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