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Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.
Apple on Thursday offered its annual update on the state of the App Store ecosystem ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that begins next week. The technology giant said that its App Store facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025, a figure up from the $1.3 trillion it announced last year around this time.
The figure, which includes all business taking place through apps on its platform, is meant to represent how the App Store creates financial opportunities for mobile developers that extend beyond sales from in-app purchases. It also helps to frame Apple’s portion of this business — a commission on in-app purchases of digital goods — as a much smaller portion of the overall pie.
As Apple noted in its announcement, 90% of the $1.4 trillion involved transactions where developers didn’t pay any commissions.
Broken down further, the 2025 total included $1.1 trillion in sales of physical goods and services and $149 billion in billings and sales for digital goods. The latter is largely commissioned at a rate of 15% to 30%, depending on transaction type and the size of the business, and is higher than the $131 billion Apple reported last year. Regardless of how it’s presented, it’s still a multi-billion-dollar market that Apple takes a piece of.
Additionally, Apple said that in-app revenue from ads was $151 billion in 2025, up from $150 billion the year prior.
Apple also highlighted that the App Store saw over 850 million average weekly users from across 175 countries and regions in 2025.
