The Wire Downloads & RevenueThe Wire · App Store
The Wire is #77 in Magazines & Newspapers Grossing in United Kingdom and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperThe Wire
CategoryMagazines & Newspapers
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 3.6 (7)
Version15.0.4
Age rating12+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 15.0.4🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 21 events
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · GB
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · AU
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countryAustralia
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · BR
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countryBrazil
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · DE · Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · IN
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countryCanada
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · KR
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countrySouth Korea
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · JP
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countryJapan
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · AE
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · SA
- 📈The Wire charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📈The Wire entered the top 100Top Free · Magazines & Newspapers · IN
- 🆕The Wire first spotted by AppInsider#64 in Top Grossing · Magazines & Newspapers · Russia
- 📦The Wire version 15.0.4• Bug fixes and performance improvements
- 🆕The Wire released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
3.6 ★
7 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#77
Magazines & Newspapers GrossingMeasured
The Wire on the App Store
App details
App ID
389230218
Publisher
WIRE MAGAZINE LIMITED
On the store since
Aug 2010
16 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.6+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
2 content notes below
Languages
3
EN FR ES
Size
4 MB
Also listed in
Music
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumourInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
The Wire 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.
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.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #77 |
 India | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #51 |
| Russia | Magazines & NewspapersGrossing | #68 |
Apps near The Wire on the chart
Magazines & Newspapers Grossing, around #77.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
3.6 ★
7 ratings
Measured
Ratings
7
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
3.7★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Magazines & Newspapers 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.
About The Wire
The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine dedicated to informed, intelligent coverage of a wide range of progressive, adventurous and non-mainstream musics.
Although The Wire is a London based publication, it serves an international readership.
The iPad/iPhone edition brings you selected pages from the latest issue as soon as it is published. Within the application you can upgrade to full access, which brings you every page of the issue and a searchable archive of every issue of The Wire published since issue one from summer 1982. Issues are not sold individually - for the duration of your subscription you have access to every issue in this archive.
During your subscription you can sync back issues to your device. These will remain in place if your subscription expires, unless your device removes them (for example when running low on disk space). Re-downloading issues requires a current subscription.
• Swipe or tap the page edges to flip to next/previous page.
• Use the animated thumbnail view to flick through the pages.
• Pinch or double-tap pages to zoom.
• Switch between single or double-page view.
• Search the current issue or the archive.
• Tap any page links to web sites, email addresses, phone numbers or maps.
• Tap contents-page links to jump to a particular article.
• Sync the latest issue to your device for offline reading (requires wi-fi).
• Sync additional back issues by tapping the stars beside their names (requires wi-fi).
• Network connection required otherwise.
We recommend first running the app within a wi-fi area so it can sync the latest issue to your device - after that you can use it anywhere. Subscribers will receive new issues automatically.
Subscriptions are available within the app at the following prices:
£5.49 per month
£54.99 per year
In addition, please note the following standard features of auto-renewable subscriptions:
• Your payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
• You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Apple Account Settings after purchase.
• No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
You can find our privacy policy here:
https://exacteditions.com/about/privacy
and our terms of service here:
https://exacteditions.com/about/tos
Although The Wire is a London based publication, it serves an international readership.
The iPad/iPhone edition brings you selected pages from the latest issue as soon as it is published. Within the application you can upgrade to full access, which brings you every page of the issue and a searchable archive of every issue of The Wire published since issue one from summer 1982. Issues are not sold individually - for the duration of your subscription you have access to every issue in this archive.
During your subscription you can sync back issues to your device. These will remain in place if your subscription expires, unless your device removes them (for example when running low on disk space). Re-downloading issues requires a current subscription.
• Swipe or tap the page edges to flip to next/previous page.
• Use the animated thumbnail view to flick through the pages.
• Pinch or double-tap pages to zoom.
• Switch between single or double-page view.
• Search the current issue or the archive.
• Tap any page links to web sites, email addresses, phone numbers or maps.
• Tap contents-page links to jump to a particular article.
• Sync the latest issue to your device for offline reading (requires wi-fi).
• Sync additional back issues by tapping the stars beside their names (requires wi-fi).
• Network connection required otherwise.
We recommend first running the app within a wi-fi area so it can sync the latest issue to your device - after that you can use it anywhere. Subscribers will receive new issues automatically.
Subscriptions are available within the app at the following prices:
£5.49 per month
£54.99 per year
In addition, please note the following standard features of auto-renewable subscriptions:
• Your payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscriptions will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
• You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Apple Account Settings after purchase.
• No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
You can find our privacy policy here:
https://exacteditions.com/about/privacy
and our terms of service here:
https://exacteditions.com/about/tos
Latest updates
15.0.4
• Bug fixes and performance improvements