Fallout Shelter: iPhone vs Android
Fallout Shelter gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Fallout Shelter by Bethesda is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Fallout Shelter at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
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App Store
App details
Google Play
App details
Fallout Shelter downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 5k+ | 10M+ |
| Google Play | 1k+ | 50M+ Measured |
| Total | 10k+ Confidence | 50M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Fallout Shelter'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
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: Ad-led
How Fallout Shelter makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Bundle of 5 Lunchboxes | |
| 2 | Bundle of 40 Lunchboxes | |
| 3 | Starter Pack | |
| 4 | Lunchbox | |
| 5 | Bundle of 15 Lunchboxes | |
| 6 | Bundle of 5 Mr. Handys | |
| 7 | Mr. Handy | |
| 8 | Bundle of 5 Pet Carriers | |
| 9 | Six Pack | |
| 10 | Case of Nuka-Cola Quantum |
Hidden keywords
Fallout Shelter shows up in App Store search (US) for 6 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 567k |
| Google Play | 4.6 ★ | 3.9M 310k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.6 ★ weighted by ratings | 4.5M |
What users say about Fallout Shelter
From the 99 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed (46% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and regular updates. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Fun: “This is a tuff and fun game”
- Updates: “I wish there were more updates”
- Useful: “I 100 percent recommend you get this game”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Same bug 3 update in a row”
- Updates: “Same bug 3 update in a row”
- Fun: “Completed challenges are not counted”
- Price & subscription: “However it’s a game I’ve spent money on”
About Fallout Shelter
Lead Dwellers on the quest to true happiness as you expand your vault. Outfit your Dwellers with specialized gear, help them find ideal jobs, and train them to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities. Play matchmaker to repopulate your underground fortress. Protect your Dwellers from the dangers of the Wasteland as you oversee your thriving community.
Send Dwellers above ground on quests to explore the blasted surface that was left behind. Find adventure, search for life above, and collect survival loot to take back to your vault.
Unlock new shelter Seasons featuring limited-time vaults. Craft experimental underground vaults, separate from your main vault, for a chance to win Season-specific, in-game rewards.
Download today to take control of your vault and start your underground adventure.
FALLOUT SHELTER FEATURES
BUILD YOUR PERFECT VAULT
- Build a brighter future…underground! You’re in control of a state-of-the-art Vault from Vault-Tec.
- Select from a variety of modern-day rooms to turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the very picture of underground Vault Life.
- Build a Radio Room to recruit new Dwellers or play matchmaker to expand the population.
OVERSEE A THRIVING UNDERGROUND COMMUNITY
- Get to know your Dwellers and lead them to happiness.
- Find their ideal jobs and watch them flourish.
- Provide Dwellers with outfits, weapons, and training to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities.
- Customize the look of any Dweller in the Barbershop.
- Prepare your Dwellers to protect against threats from the outside…and within.
EXPLORE THE WASTELAND WITH A VARIETY OF QUESTS
- Send Dwellers on quests above ground to explore the blasted surface left behind.
- Find new armor and weapons, gain experience, and earn Caps.
- Encounter new Dwellers to bring back to your vault.
- Complete missions to earn handy survival loot, or fail and meet unspeakable death...
- Open lunchboxes for a chance to collect Legendary Dwellers, including Lucy MacLean, Sarah Lyons, and Abraham Washington.
Vault-Tec has provided the tools, but the rest is up to you. What are you waiting for? Get started building your Vault today for FREE.
*** App Store Best of 2015 ***
Mobile Game of the Year - 2016 DICE Awards
Winner 2015 Golden Joystick Best Handheld/Mobile Game
“Bethesda's first entry into iOS gaming is awesome. Game of the Week" - TouchArcade
"Probably the best game of E3 2015” – Gizmodo
"Fallout Shelter is simple to play and addictive as hell." - GameZone
** Requires iOS 10 or later. Requires at least an iPhone 6S Plus, iPad Air 2, or iPad mini 4 **
This app offers in-app purchases. Please note that you may disable in-app purchasing directly from your
Fallout Shelter iPhone
Fallout Shelter gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Fallout Shelter is #30 in Games › Simulation Grossing in United States and charting in 9 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Fallout Shelter at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
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Fallout Shelter on the App Store
App details
Fallout Shelter downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Fallout Shelter'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Fallout Shelter before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Fallout Shelter makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Bundle of 5 Lunchboxes | |
| 2 | Bundle of 40 Lunchboxes | |
| 3 | Starter Pack | |
| 4 | Lunchbox | |
| 5 | Bundle of 15 Lunchboxes | |
| 6 | Bundle of 5 Mr. Handys | |
| 7 | Mr. Handy | |
| 8 | Bundle of 5 Pet Carriers | |
| 9 | Six Pack | |
| 10 | Case of Nuka-Cola Quantum |
Hidden keywords
Fallout Shelter shows up in App Store search (US) for 6 words that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field, and it ranks in the top 10 for at least one of them.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #30 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #31 | |
| Games › Role PlayingFree | #28 | |
| Games › SimulationFree | #78 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #41 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #51 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #60 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #42 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #80 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #57 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #49 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #65 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #53 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #56 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #48 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #51 | |
| Games › Role PlayingFree | #75 | |
| Games › Role PlayingFree | #88 | |
| Games › Role PlayingFree | #98 | |
| Games › Role PlayingGrossing | #96 | |
| Games › Role PlayingFree | #186 |
Apps near Fallout Shelter on the chart
Games › Simulation Grossing, around #30.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about Fallout Shelter
From the 99 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed (46% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and regular updates. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Fun: “This is a tuff and fun game”
- Updates: “I wish there were more updates”
- Useful: “I 100 percent recommend you get this game”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Same bug 3 update in a row”
- Updates: “Same bug 3 update in a row”
- Fun: “Completed challenges are not counted”
- Price & subscription: “However it’s a game I’ve spent money on”
About Fallout Shelter
Lead Dwellers on the quest to true happiness as you expand your vault. Outfit your Dwellers with specialized gear, help them find ideal jobs, and train them to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities. Play matchmaker to repopulate your underground fortress. Protect your Dwellers from the dangers of the Wasteland as you oversee your thriving community.
Send Dwellers above ground on quests to explore the blasted surface that was left behind. Find adventure, search for life above, and collect survival loot to take back to your vault.
Unlock new shelter Seasons featuring limited-time vaults. Craft experimental underground vaults, separate from your main vault, for a chance to win Season-specific, in-game rewards.
Download today to take control of your vault and start your underground adventure.
FALLOUT SHELTER FEATURES
BUILD YOUR PERFECT VAULT
- Build a brighter future…underground! You’re in control of a state-of-the-art Vault from Vault-Tec.
- Select from a variety of modern-day rooms to turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the very picture of underground Vault Life.
- Build a Radio Room to recruit new Dwellers or play matchmaker to expand the population.
OVERSEE A THRIVING UNDERGROUND COMMUNITY
- Get to know your Dwellers and lead them to happiness.
- Find their ideal jobs and watch them flourish.
- Provide Dwellers with outfits, weapons, and training to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities.
- Customize the look of any Dweller in the Barbershop.
- Prepare your Dwellers to protect against threats from the outside…and within.
EXPLORE THE WASTELAND WITH A VARIETY OF QUESTS
- Send Dwellers on quests above ground to explore the blasted surface left behind.
- Find new armor and weapons, gain experience, and earn Caps.
- Encounter new Dwellers to bring back to your vault.
- Complete missions to earn handy survival loot, or fail and meet unspeakable death...
- Open lunchboxes for a chance to collect Legendary Dwellers, including Lucy MacLean, Sarah Lyons, and Abraham Washington.
Vault-Tec has provided the tools, but the rest is up to you. What are you waiting for? Get started building your Vault today for FREE.
*** App Store Best of 2015 ***
Mobile Game of the Year - 2016 DICE Awards
Winner 2015 Golden Joystick Best Handheld/Mobile Game
“Bethesda's first entry into iOS gaming is awesome. Game of the Week" - TouchArcade
"Probably the best game of E3 2015” – Gizmodo
"Fallout Shelter is simple to play and addictive as hell." - GameZone
** Requires iOS 10 or later. Requires at least an iPhone 6S Plus, iPad Air 2, or iPad mini 4 **
This app offers in-app purchases. Please note that you may disable in-app purchasing directly from your
Latest updates
Store changes
What Fallout Shelter changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
More from Bethesda
Fallout Shelter Android
Fallout Shelter gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Fallout Shelter is #31 in Games › Simulation Grossing on Google Play in United States and charting in 15 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Fallout Shelter at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
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Fallout Shelter on Google Play
App details
Fallout Shelter downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Fallout Shelter'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Fallout Shelter before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Fallout Shelter makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Bundle of 5 Lunchboxes | |
| 2 | Bundle of 40 Lunchboxes | |
| 3 | Starter Pack | |
| 4 | Lunchbox | |
| 5 | Bundle of 15 Lunchboxes | |
| 6 | Bundle of 5 Mr. Handys | |
| 7 | Mr. Handy | |
| 8 | Bundle of 5 Pet Carriers | |
| 9 | Six Pack | |
| 10 | Case of Nuka-Cola Quantum |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #31 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #20 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #45 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #58 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #49 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #28 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #48 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #46 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #54 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #48 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #94 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #20 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #40 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #58 | |
| Games › SimulationFree | #197 | |
| Games › SimulationFree | #198 | |
| Games › SimulationGrossing | #119 |
Apps near Fallout Shelter on the chart
Games › Simulation Grossing, around #31.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about Fallout Shelter
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (74% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and regular updates. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and speed and performance.
What people like
- Fun: “entertaining and relaxing”
- Updates: “Pretty fun, updates are neat”
- Crashes & bugs: “some bugs on my phone before but now it works !”
- Speed & performance: “it's a slow start but it's really good actually”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Game freezes the second I click new vault”
- Speed & performance: “when I try to load a vault it just says loading and does nothing”
- Fun: “if it loads and runs then enjoy”
- Ads: “Fallout Shelter has become just another Ad packed money suck”
About Fallout Shelter
Lead Dwellers on the quest to true happiness as you progress in your underground excavation. Outfit Dwellers with specialized gear, help them find ideal jobs, and train them to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities. Play matchmaker to repopulate your base. Oversee your thriving community and protect your Dwellers from danger.
Send Dwellers on Wasteland quests to explore the blasted surface left behind. Find adventure, search for life above, survive dangers, and collect loot to take back to your vault. Build a base and battle hazardous threats in a post-apocalypse survival game that puts you to the test.
Unlock new shelter Seasons featuring limited-time vaults! Master base building with experimental vaults that are separate from your main vault, for a chance to win Season-specific, in-game rewards. Oversee post-apocalyptic survival in brand-new themed locations!
Dive into the Fallout universe, create your perfect vault, and embark on an underground adventure in this offline base building game. Post-apocalyptic world building is in your hands!
FALLOUT SHELTER FEATURES
UNDERGROUND BASE BUILDER
- Build a brighter future and survive an epic underground game! You're in control of a state-of-the-art Vault from Vault-Tec.
- Expand your Vault in a post-apocalypse, building survival game! Turn an excavation beneath 2,000 feet of bedrock into the very picture of underground Vault Life.
- Construct a variety of specialized rooms in a creative base and world building game.
- Build a Radio Room to recruit new Dwellers or play matchmaker to repopulate.
POST-APOCALYPSE WORLD BUILDING & SURVIVAL RPG
- Get to know your Dwellers and lead them to happiness in a post-apocalyptic simulation.
- Find their ideal jobs and watch them flourish.
- Provide Dwellers with outfits, weapons, and training to improve S.P.E.C.I.A.L. abilities.
- Increase S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats and improve your Dwellers' chance of Wasteland survival
- Customize the look of any Dweller in the Barbershop.
- Build a base and gear up to battle threats from the outside…and within.
WASTELAND EXPLORATION & DANGEROUS QUESTS
- Send Dwellers on quests above ground and uncover new areas beyond your underground excavation
- Survive the Wasteland to find new armor and weapons, gain experience, and earn Caps.
- Encounter new Dwellers in the Wasteland to bring back to your vault.
- Survive missions to earn handy survival loot, or fail and meet unspeakable death…
- Open lunchboxes for a chance to collect Legendary Dwellers, including Lucy MacLean, Sarah Lyons, and Abraham Washington.
Survive life in a post-apocalyptic world through this free-to-play base building and management simu
What's new in 2.7.0
- Defend your new Experimental Vault from the Enclave and other aggressors.
- Send your best Dwellers on quests to collect more gold and uncover who’s behind the Enclave attacks.
- Complete challenges to unlock the Enclave Mobile Base Crawler, Living Room, and Cafeteria themes.
- Trade your Bullion for all kinds of rewards by spinning the Capitalist Wheel."
Store changes
What Fallout Shelter changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.