--- title: "Pixalate's Q4 2023 Mobile App Rankings for Top US Google Play Store Developers For Open Programmatic Advertising: US-Registered Apps (213k) Take 15% of Global Open Programmatic Ad Spend Market Share" description: "The U.S. Mobile App Economy: Q4 2023 Benchmarks Report for the Google Play Store is Pixalate’s first installment on the state of the mobile app and developer economy in leading countries around the world." image: https://www.pixalate.com/hubfs/Q4%202023%20Mobile%20App%20Economy%20Benchmarks%20-%20USA%20-%20Google%20Play%20Store.png --- [![pixalate-full-logo](https://www.pixalate.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Pixalate_Logos/pixalate-full-logo.jpg?width=150&height=60&name=pixalate-full-logo.jpg "pixalate-full-logo")](https://www.pixalate.com) Search **Menu** ** ** ![](https://www.pixalate.com/hubfs/Blog_Media/Blog%20photos/pixalate-blog-bg.png) [Benchmarks](https://www.pixalate.com/blog/topic/benchmarks) | [Mobile Apps](https://www.pixalate.com/blog/topic/mobile-apps) | 2 min read # Pixalate's Q4 2023 Mobile App Rankings for Top US Google Play Store Developers For Open Programmatic Advertising: US-Registered Apps (213k) Take 15% of Global Open Programmatic Ad Spend Market Share Written by [Pixalate](https://www.pixalate.com/blog/author/pixalate) Mar 26, 2024 8:00:00 AM *Research into Google Play Store apps and developers by Pixalate reveals 74k total mobile app developers have at least one U.S.-registered app; MobilityWare and Tumblr are the top two grossing developers in estimated open programmatic ad spend earned in Q4 2023* **London, March, 26 2024** -- [Pixalate](https://www.pixalate.com/), the global market-leading ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform, today released its [U.S. Mobile App Economy: Q4 2023 Benchmarks Report - Google Play Store.](https://www.pixalate.com/mobile-app-economy-benchmark-usa-google-play-store) The report is Pixalate’s first installment of a series of benchmark reports on the state of the mobile app and developer economy in leading countries around the world. The report benchmarks the number of developers with Google Play Store mobile apps registered in the U.S., the volume of U.S. registered apps, and leading U.S. apps and developers based on estimated open programmatic advertising spend earned in Q4 2023. ## **Key Findings - U.S.-registered Apps and Developers in the Google Play Store:** - The number of U.S.-registered apps in the Google Play Store at the end of Q4 2023 was **213k**, down by **3%** YoY (from Q4 2022) - These apps are from **74.4K **unique app developers - These apps account for **6% **of the total **3.5M** apps available in Google Play Store  - **46%** of U.S.-registered apps come from 3% of developers - **69% **of developers are single-app developers - In Q4 2023, U.S.-registered apps earned **15% **of the monthly estimated global open programmatic ad spend among Google Play Store apps - The number of U.S.-registered apps with ads in the Google Play Store (based on app-ads.txt data) is **29k**, an increase of **11%** YoY - MobilityWare is the top-ranked U.S.-registered mobile app developer regarding estimated open programmatic ad spend earned (**$4.2M**) among Google Play Store apps in Q4 2023 - MobilityWare and Tumblr each earn over** $4M **in monthly ad spend - Subsplash Inc., a developer of apps for churches and religious communities, ranks first among U.S.-registered mobile app developers based on volume of the total number of apps (**4,210**) in the Google Play Store as of Q4 2023 ## **TOP DEVELOPERS BY OPEN PROGRAMMATIC AD SPEND*** 1. [**MobilityWare**](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/GLOBAL/NA?developerName=MobilityWare) - $4.2M estimated monthly ad spend earned & 33 apps  2. [**Tumblr, Inc**.](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/GLOBAL/NA?developerName=tumblr()Tumblr,%20Inc) - $4.1M estimated monthly ad spend earned & 1 app  3. [**TuneIn Inc**](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/GLOBAL/NA?developerName=TuneIn%20Inc) - $2.5M - estimated monthly ad spend earned & 2 apps 4. [**PeopleFun** ](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/GLOBAL/NA?developerName=PeopleFun)- $2.2M - estimated monthly ad spend earned & 10 apps 5. [**MediaLab AI - Kik**](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/GLOBAL/NA?developerName=MediaLab%20AI%20-%20Kik)** **- $2.1M - estimated monthly ad spend earned 1 - Number of apps **Estimated Ad Spend Earned is based on Open Programmatic Ad Traffic as measured by Pixalate.* ## **TOP DEVELOPERS* BY NUMBER OF APPS** 1. [**Subsplash Inc**](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/all/GLOBAL?developerName=Subsplash%20Inc)** **- 4210 apps 2. [**ChowNow **](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/all/GLOBAL?developerName=ChowNow)-  3264 apps 3. [**Apptegy Play Store**](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/all/GLOBAL?developerName=Apptegy%20Play%20Store)** **- 2447 apps  4. [**Branded MINDBODY Apps**](https://ratings.pixalate.com/discovery/apps/list/android/all/GLOBAL?developerName=Branded%20Apps%20by%20MINDBODY)** **- 1359 apps 5. 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