The Pioneer Downloads & RevenueThe Pioneer · App Store & Google Play
The Pioneer by Media Pioneer Publishing AG (DE) is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
📈AndroidDropped out of every chart we track📦iOSUpdated to version 3.56.0📈iOSEntered the top 100📈iOSCharting in a new country🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕iOSFirst spotted by AppInsider📦iOSVersion 3.55.2📦AndroidVersion 3.55.2🆕iOSReleased on the App Store🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play
Full timeline · 10 events
- 📈The Pioneer dropped out of every chart we trackAndroidLast seen 3 Nov
- 📦The Pioneer updated to version 3.56.0iOSWir aktualisieren die App regelmäßig, um Fehler zu beheben, die Performance zu optimieren und das Nutzungserlebnis zu verbessern.
- 📈The Pioneer entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · News · IT
- 📈The Pioneer charting in a new countryiOSItaly
- 🆕The Pioneer first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidGermany
- 🆕The Pioneer first spotted by AppInsideriOS#31 in Top Free · News · Germany
- 📦The Pioneer version 3.55.2iOSNo release notes
- 📦The Pioneer version 3.55.2AndroidNo release notes
- 🆕The Pioneer released on the App StoreiOS
- 🆕The Pioneer released on Google PlayAndroid
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
14k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#36
App Store · 
News Grossing
News GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
9
▼ -69% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
App Store
App details
App ID
1421832321
Publisher
Media Pioneer Publishing AG (DE)
Publisher country
Germany
On the store since
Aug 2018
8 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
1
DE
Size
63 MB
Also listed in
Business
Content notesUnrestricted Web Access
Google Play
App details
App ID
de.gstmb.podcasts
Publisher
Media Pioneer Publishing AG
Publisher country
Germany
Content rating
Everyone
The Pioneer downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | – | 100k+ |
| Google Play | – | 50k+ Measured |
| Total | – | 500k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where The Pioneer's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How The Pioneer makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | ThePioneer Pass subscription | |
| 2 | Morning Briefing Pass subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #36 News Grossing | 2 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | – | 0 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
9
▼ -69% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
60/100
faster than 87% of News apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 13k |
| Google Play | 4.6 ★ | 1.5k 3 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.7 ★ weighted by ratings | 14k |
What users say about The Pioneer
From recent reviews.
About The Pioneer
“Wahrheit gibt es nur zu zweien.” The Pioneer steht für unabhängigen, pluralistischen und partizipativen Politik- und Wirtschaftsjournalismus, der in allen redaktionellen Formaten auf Werbung verzichtet. Laden Sie die The Pioneer App kostenlos auf Ihr Smartphone oder Tablet und hören und lesen Sie unsere Inhalte “to go”.
Neben allen Original-Podcasts sind nun auch Briefings, Artikel und Infografiken in der App verfügbar – darunter alle The Pioneer Briefing Formate, das World Briefing mit Sigmar Gabriel, Tech Briefing mit Christoph Keese, Wall Street Daily, Der 8. Tag u.v.m.
Inhaber vom "ThePioneer Pass" haben nach Wiederherstellung ihres In App Kaufes Zugriff auf alle App Inhalte. Alle bestehenden oder zukünftigen Mitglieder von The Pioneer, die neben den Podcasts auch Zugriff auf Newsletter, Artikel, Infografiken und Live-Journalismus haben, können sich in der App mit ihrem Pioneer-Nutzerkonto anmelden, um die Inhalte freizuschalten.
Unsere Datenschutzbestimmungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/app-datenschutz
Unsere Nutzungsbedingungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/agb
Neben allen Original-Podcasts sind nun auch Briefings, Artikel und Infografiken in der App verfügbar – darunter alle The Pioneer Briefing Formate, das World Briefing mit Sigmar Gabriel, Tech Briefing mit Christoph Keese, Wall Street Daily, Der 8. Tag u.v.m.
Inhaber vom "ThePioneer Pass" haben nach Wiederherstellung ihres In App Kaufes Zugriff auf alle App Inhalte. Alle bestehenden oder zukünftigen Mitglieder von The Pioneer, die neben den Podcasts auch Zugriff auf Newsletter, Artikel, Infografiken und Live-Journalismus haben, können sich in der App mit ihrem Pioneer-Nutzerkonto anmelden, um die Inhalte freizuschalten.
Unsere Datenschutzbestimmungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/app-datenschutz
Unsere Nutzungsbedingungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/agb
The Pioneer App Store
The Pioneer is #36 in News Grossing in Germany and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperMedia Pioneer Publishing AG (DE)
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (13k)
Version3.56.0
Age rating17+
First seen by us 24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Rating
4.8 ★
13k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#36
News GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
9
▼ -69% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
The Pioneer on the App Store
App details
App ID
1421832321
Publisher
Media Pioneer Publishing AG (DE)
Publisher country
Germany
On the store since
Aug 2018
8 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
1
DE
Size
63 MB
Also listed in
Business
Content notesUnrestricted Web Access
The Pioneer downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where The Pioneer's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in The Pioneer before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How The Pioneer makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | ThePioneer Pass subscription | |
| 2 | Morning Briefing Pass subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | NewsGrossing | #36 |
| Germany | NewsFree | #54 |
 Russia | NewsGrossing | #95 |
Apps near The Pioneer on the chart
News Grossing, around #36.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
13k ratings
Measured
Ratings
13k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
9
▼ -69% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
60/100
faster than 87% of News apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about The Pioneer
From recent reviews.
About The Pioneer
“Wahrheit gibt es nur zu zweien.” The Pioneer steht für unabhängigen, pluralistischen und partizipativen Politik- und Wirtschaftsjournalismus, der in allen redaktionellen Formaten auf Werbung verzichtet. Laden Sie die The Pioneer App kostenlos auf Ihr Smartphone oder Tablet und hören und lesen Sie unsere Inhalte “to go”.
Neben allen Original-Podcasts sind nun auch Briefings, Artikel und Infografiken in der App verfügbar – darunter alle The Pioneer Briefing Formate, das World Briefing mit Sigmar Gabriel, Tech Briefing mit Christoph Keese, Wall Street Daily, Der 8. Tag u.v.m.
Inhaber vom "ThePioneer Pass" haben nach Wiederherstellung ihres In App Kaufes Zugriff auf alle App Inhalte. Alle bestehenden oder zukünftigen Mitglieder von The Pioneer, die neben den Podcasts auch Zugriff auf Newsletter, Artikel, Infografiken und Live-Journalismus haben, können sich in der App mit ihrem Pioneer-Nutzerkonto anmelden, um die Inhalte freizuschalten.
Unsere Datenschutzbestimmungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/app-datenschutz
Unsere Nutzungsbedingungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/agb
Neben allen Original-Podcasts sind nun auch Briefings, Artikel und Infografiken in der App verfügbar – darunter alle The Pioneer Briefing Formate, das World Briefing mit Sigmar Gabriel, Tech Briefing mit Christoph Keese, Wall Street Daily, Der 8. Tag u.v.m.
Inhaber vom "ThePioneer Pass" haben nach Wiederherstellung ihres In App Kaufes Zugriff auf alle App Inhalte. Alle bestehenden oder zukünftigen Mitglieder von The Pioneer, die neben den Podcasts auch Zugriff auf Newsletter, Artikel, Infografiken und Live-Journalismus haben, können sich in der App mit ihrem Pioneer-Nutzerkonto anmelden, um die Inhalte freizuschalten.
Unsere Datenschutzbestimmungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/app-datenschutz
Unsere Nutzungsbedingungen: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/agb
Latest updates
3.56.0
Wir aktualisieren die App regelmäßig, um Fehler zu beheben, die Performance zu optimieren und das Nutzungserlebnis zu verbessern.
3.55.2
The Pioneer Android
Not in a tracked Google Play top chart right now.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperMedia Pioneer Publishing AG
CategoryNews & Magazines
PriceFree
Released
Installs50k+
Rating★ 4.6 (1.5k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.6 ★
1.5k ratings
Measured
The Pioneer on Google Play
App details
App ID
de.gstmb.podcasts
Publisher
Media Pioneer Publishing AG
Publisher country
Germany
Content rating
Everyone
The Pioneer downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where The Pioneer's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in The Pioneer before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How The Pioneer makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | ThePioneer Pass subscription | |
| 2 | Morning Briefing Pass subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not in a Google Play top chart right now. | ||
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
1.5k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1.5k
Measured
Written reviews
3
Measured
About The Pioneer
“Truth comes only in twos.” The Pioneer stands for independent, pluralistic and participatory political and business journalism that dispenses with advertising in all editorial formats. Download The Pioneer App for free on your smartphone or tablet and listen and read our content to go.
In addition to all original podcasts, briefings, articles and infographics are now also available in the app - including all The Pioneer Briefing formats, the World Briefing with Sigmar Gabriel, Tech Briefing with Christoph Keese, Wall Street Daily, The 8th Day and much more.
"ThePioneer Pass" holders have access to all app content after restoring their in-app purchase. All current or future members of The Pioneer who have access to newsletters, articles, infographics and live journalism in addition to the podcasts can log into the app with their Pioneer user account to unlock the content.
Our privacy policy: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/app-datenschutz
Our terms of use: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/agb
In addition to all original podcasts, briefings, articles and infographics are now also available in the app - including all The Pioneer Briefing formats, the World Briefing with Sigmar Gabriel, Tech Briefing with Christoph Keese, Wall Street Daily, The 8th Day and much more.
"ThePioneer Pass" holders have access to all app content after restoring their in-app purchase. All current or future members of The Pioneer who have access to newsletters, articles, infographics and live journalism in addition to the podcasts can log into the app with their Pioneer user account to unlock the content.
Our privacy policy: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/app-datenschutz
Our terms of use: https://www.thepioneer.de/s/agb