Amazon Appstore celebrates first birthday, now hosts 31K apps

A year ago Amazon boldly launched a direct competitor to what was then known as the Android Market with a modest selection of around 4,000 apps. Twelve months later the service is celebrating its first birthday and solid growth to what now amounts to over 31,000 applications and games. To commemorate the occasion a sale is now taking place that will feature the store’s top-selling apps, including Fruit Ninja, Splashtop Remote Desktop, and Wolfram Aplha among others.

Starting today, Plants vs. Zombies is on sale for 67 percent off. The number apps on sale increases each day for the next week (day two will feature two apps, day three will feature three apps, and so on). Additionally, Amazon is running a contest with eight Kindle Fire’s up for grabs for those that enter before March 31st.

So of the millions of apps downloaded, which ranked highest in the Appstore? Here’s the full list.

Top Paid Apps (over the last 12 months)

  1. Cut the Rope
  2. Angry Birds (Ad-Free)
  3. Where’s My Water?
  4. Angry Birds Rio (Ad-Free)
  5. Angry Birds Seasons (Ad-Free)
  6. Plants vs. Zombies (Kindle Fire Edition)
  7. Fruit Ninja
  8. SCRABBLE (Kindle Fire Edition)
  9. UNO (Kindle Fire Edition)
  10. TETRIS

Top Free Apps (over the last 12 months)

  1. Angry Birds Free
  2. Netflix
  3. Solitaire
  4. Fruit Ninja Free
  5. Angry Birds Seasons Free
  6. Bubble Buster
  7. Little Piano Free
  8. Roller Lite
  9. Jewels
  10. Hangman Free

Another fun fact revealed by Amazon highlights the savings of their Free App of the Day promotion. If a user were to have downloaded each app offered free of charge the savings would have amounted to nearly $1,000. That’s a lot of extra dough in the pocket.

[via TechCrunch]

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