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Top Free iPhone Apps Generate About 80,000 Downloads a Day

Monday August 11, 2008 6:33 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Illusion Labs, the makers of the popular free application Labyrinth Lite [App Store], was profiled in BusinessWeek. Illusion Labs started off as a developer for jailbroken iPhones and has since made the transition to the App Store.

Their free version of Labyrinth recently hit the number one spot in the App Store's most downloaded and has since settled at fifth place. Illusion Labs reveals that this level of popularity translates into approximately 80,000 downloads a day.

The company uses the free application as a 10-level demo version of their $5.99 full version [App Store]. The developers were also responsible for a popular free game called iPint which was commissioned by ad agency Beattie McGuiness Bungary for Carling beer. (The iPint application is currently unavailable in the U.S. App Store)
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radiogod69
Posted: 49 months ago
free app is addicting, is the pay version more levels?
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Eraserhead
Posted: 49 months ago
So is that 80'000 downloads/day downloads at the #1 or #5 spots? Either way it looks fairly good against Download.com for Windows which gets about 250'000 downloads/day in the #1 slot and 60'000 downloads/day in the #5 slot.
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mkrishnan
Posted: 49 months ago
I have to admit I installed six off the bat (Twinkle, NY Times, Photobucket, Yelp, Restaurant Nutrition Guide -- which will probably get sacked as its useless, and Showtimes). I guess I'm finally going to put labyrinth on it... why not.
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OneMike
Posted: 49 months ago
thats a lot of bandwidth
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stagi
Posted: 49 months ago
Crazy Numbers
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JML42691
Posted: 49 months ago
I find it amazing how it got this many downloads, I found it a pretty good fun app, but not worth the price to upgrade to the full version, so I deleted it once I beat the 10 included levels.
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Doctor Q
Posted: 49 months ago
Try Marble Mash. It's also free and has lots of levels.
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rickdollar
Posted: 49 months ago

free app is addicting, is the pay version more levels?


Hundreds more. It's definitely worth it if you like the free one, IMO.
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fleshman03
Posted: 49 months ago
I put the free one on my iPod Touch and went to my parents house for the weekend. My stepfather ended up loving it. There is just so much joy that can be had when you give a 65 year old a video game that he can control by moving a screen.

Seriously - it was great fun to watch that.
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Andronicus
Posted: 49 months ago

The developers were also responsible for a popular free game called iPint which was commissioned by ad agency Beattie McGuiness Bungary for Carling beer. (The iPint application is currently unavailable in the U.S. App Store)


:confused: I downloaded the free app "iPint" from the U.S. App store.
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