IndiaNIC, LLC
Website: http://iphoneapps.indianic.com/
Number of Applications: 500+
About the Company: This Company was founded by Mr. Sandeep Mundra in 1997. Apart from developing their own applications, this company offers outsourcing services for iPhone and Mac development. Also it offers the outsourced website designing services.
Focus Area: This Company seems to have found its niche in application development. They have been focusing on spiritual reference books which encompass almost all the religions. They have introduced multiple apps with medical information as well.
Price Range: The price of IndiaNIC’s applications seems to vary from $0.99 to $19.99. Interestingly they do not offer any free apps.
GP Apps
Website: http://gpapps.com
Number of Applications: 350+
Focus Area: Based on its number of applications, this company seems to be one of the most innovative to date. They also have applications in the largest number of categories. Below is a pie chart which highlights the business focus by category of applications.
Price Range: Almost all of the applications on GP Apps are priced at $0.99 with only one application being offered for free.
This company has developed new application that will turn iPhone into video camera.
Iceberg Reader
Website: http://www.scrollmotion.com/icebergreader/
Number of Applications: 340+
Focus Area: Iceberg Reader’s all the applications are in Books.
Price Range: Iceberg Reader does not offer any free books. The prices vary from $1.99 to $39.99. Their most expensive book is “Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson”
Super Art Software
Website: http://sites.google.com/a/superarts.org/soft/Home/
Number of Applications: Approximately 300
Focus Area: The applications from Super Art Software are mostly books. There are a few other genre like Reference Apps and Utilties Apps.
Price Range: There are a few applications that are in the price range of 10 to 20 dollars. Most of the other applications are priced at $0.99. iDict - Quick is the very popular apps priced at $14.99 from the Reference genre.
Innovative Language Learning, LLC
Website: http://www.innovativelanguage.com
Number of Applications: 260+
Focus Area: As the name suggests, Innovative Language Learning is focused on providing audio lessons for learning various languages.
Price Range: Innovative Language Learning offers free “lite” applications for most languages which are intended to demonstrate just how effective this type of application can be. Most of the other applications are priced at $0.99. At that price, these are certainly worth a try rather than spending hundreds of dollars on Rosettanet.
AppEngines
Website: http://appengines.com/
Number of Applications: 260+
Focus Area: AppEngines offers applications mainly for books.
Price Range: 9 applications provided by AppEngines are free and the rest are less than $16.99.
Sehat Rosny
Website: http://gohophop.blogspot.com
Number of Applications: 250+
Focus Area: This Company offers travel guides for many popular and famous travel destinations.
Price Range: All the applications provided by Sehat Rosny are either priced at $0.99 or $2.99
DMBC
Website: http://ebookapp.com
Number of Applications: 240+
Focus Area: DMBC provides applications from various genres including iPhone e-books, games, business and finance applications, etc.
Price Range: Roughly 80% of DMBC’s applications are priced at $0.99 and prices of the remaining applications vary. Currently, DMBC offers seven applications at no charge.
NTT Solmare
Website: http://www.nttsolmare.com/
Number of Applications: 180+
Focus Area: NTT Solmare is Japanese Company with 99% of the apps related to books.
Price Range: Majority of their applications are priced at $0.99.
Paragon Software Group
Website: http://penreader.com/
Number of Applications: 175
About the Company: Paragon Software Group is an international holding company with branch offices in Germany, Russia, Japan and the United States. Founded in 1994, Paragon is known for its diversified product development with applications that support a wide variety of mobile devices including Android, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod Touch, Java, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and Palm OS.
Focus Area: Paragon Software Group is focused on providing dictionaries for various languages. While browsing their inventory of applications, I didn’t find a single application which was not dictionary-related.
Price Range: From a pricing perspective, Paragon clearly prefers luxury applications as their prices start at $9.99 and go all the way up to $59.99. Needless to say, Paragon does not offer any free applications.
Molinker Inc.
Website: http://www.molinkerinc.com/
Number of Applications: 150+
Focus Area: Like Sehat Rosny, Molinker Inc. offers travel guides for famous travel destinations.
Price Range: 99% of the applications provided by are priced at $0.99 and the rest are $2.99.
The data for this article was extracted on 23-Feb-2009. This article was published on 01-Mar-2009 and this date is shown on the top of the article.
Since our last snapshot till today 13-Mar-2009 more than 4000 apps have been added to apps store. So the stats are changing very rapidly.
As of 13th Mar 2009, the minimum no. of apps for top 10 is 180.
We wish your company all the success ... and hope to see in the next top 10 list.
Thanks
-Bala
also, how about those gaming companies?
http://www.iphonekicks.com/other/Top_10_Companies_by_No_of_Apps
Cheers
Kthever