Indie makers build Productivity apps. The visits go to Food & Drink and Finance.
There are two easy ways to count an indie app category: how many apps are in it, and how much attention those apps actually get. I assumed they would roughly line up. On the live snapshot I looked at, they do not, and the gap is the most useful thing I found for anyone deciding what to build next. All figures below come from one public source, the Indie App Landscape report on Censuus , as it…
Indie app developers categorize their creations based on how many apps they have and how much attention those apps receive. The Indie App Landscape report, as of 2026-09-24, reveals that the most popular categories are Health & Fitness with 41 apps, Productivity with 31 apps, Lifestyle with 25 apps, Utilities with 19 apps, Games with 19 apps, Education with 16 apps, and Finance with 13 apps.
Food & Drink and Finance have the fewest apps in the top eight categories, but they also receive the most visits, with 331 and 320 visits respectively. Health & Fitness leads both the number of apps and visits lists. Productivity, despite having 31 apps, ranks sixth in visits with 89. The report emphasizes that a category with a large number of apps but low visits indicates a crowded market with many competitors.
Conversely, a category with fewer apps but high visits indicates a smaller market with less competition. This information can guide indie developers in choosing which category to focus on next.
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