X: iPhone vs Android
X gets 500k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
X by X Corp. 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.
News GrossingX at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-24. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
X is a real-time social media platform for news, live events, and public conversation, targeting users who want to follow breaking stories and engage with global communities. The app holds the #1 position in News Grossing charts across multiple major markets including the US, UAE, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, and India, while also leading free rankings in several European and Asian regions.
Similar apps: Facebook, Instagram, Threads
App Store
App details
Tech stack
App privacy Measured
X’s App Store privacy label declares 7 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 10 linked to your identity and 3 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Android app v12.29.1-prod.01 · checked 26 Sep 2026
X downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 100k+ | 1B+ |
| Google Play | 500k+ | 1B+ Measured |
| Total | 500k+ Confidence | 1B+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where X'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: Subscription-led
How X makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | X Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | X Premium Basic (Monthly) subscription | |
| 3 | X Premium Plus (Monthly) subscription | |
| 4 | @elonmusk Subscription subscription | |
| 5 | X Premium (Annual) subscription | |
| 6 | Promote Post for $25 | |
| 7 | @FatKidDeals Subscription subscription | |
| 8 | X Premium Basic (Annual) subscription | |
| 9 | Promote Post for $50 | |
| 10 | X Premium Plus (Annual) subscription |
Hidden keywords
X shows up in App Store search (US) for 1 word that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.6 ★ | 11M |
| Google Play | 4.4 ★ | 25M 797k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.4 ★ weighted by ratings | 36M |
What users say about X
From the 200 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users frequently praise the platform for real-time news access and the integration of Grok AI, often citing Elon Musk's influence as a positive factor for free speech. However, significant complaints focus on account suspensions without explanation, broken notification interactions, and general app instability.
Mixed but leaning positive (59% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and easy sign-in. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Fun: “Most Entertaining, Gracias”
- Login & account: “Some say I’m Shadow Banned!”
- Features & content: “Best option for real news and real information!!!!”
- Price & subscription: “Reasonably priced and getting better substantially”
Common complaints
- Login & account: “Majority of accounts are bots”
- Price & subscription: “And you have to basically pay for engagement”
- Crashes & bugs: “X not working PROPERLY!!!!!”
- Updates: “Very bad update for an iPad”
About X
It's also a place to be heard. Post your take on the day's news, go live, and grow an audience for whatever you create. Millions of people come to X every day to find out what's happening and talk about it.
WHAT YOU CAN DO ON X
- Follow breaking news – Get news from around the world before it hits the headlines, with real-time updates on trending topics and viral conversations.
- Post to a global community – Share your thoughts, photos, and videos. Join millions of users shaping public dialogue across social, cultural, and political conversations.
- Ask Grok – Grok is the AI assistant powered by X's real-time data. Ask Grok to summarize trending news, explain videos, or give you more context about posts. Grok also powers the photo and video editing tools in the app.
- Create original videos – The built-in Video Editor and Recorder lets you shoot, add multi-language captions, apply green screen effects, and post pro-level content directly in the app.
- Go live on video – Stream a concert, a live game, or your thoughts on a hot topic, and keep your audience engaged with enhanced livestream tools.
- Watch video and podcasts – From live breaking news and sports clips to podcasts and gaming sessions up to 3 hours long. Many of the world's leading voices in comedy, gaming, podcasting, and politics share their content on X.
- Host live audio with Spaces – Spaces is X's audio feature for hosting discussions, holding interviews, or starting your next live podcast.
- Message privately – Connect and chat with friends, followers, customers, or collaborators through Direct Messages.
- Pin Custom Timelines – Custom Timelines are Grok-powered topic feeds you can pin for the topics you follow most.
- Turn on Priority Notifications – Priority Notifications surface your key interactions first.
- Open your History tab – The History tab is one unified place for your bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles.
- Subscribe to X Premium – X Premium unlocks a blue checkmark, boosted visibility, prioritized replies, fewer ads, longer videos, and post editing. It also gives you creator revenue sharing and the ability to offer exclusive content to subscribers.
WHO X IS FOR
X is for people who follow breaking news and live events in real time, for sports, tech, music, and politics fans, for creators and podcasters who stream and create original video content for an audience, and for anyone building a community around gaming, entertainment, crypto, entrepreneurship, or tech.
WHY X?
In a world of constant change, X is your real-time source to stay ahead of the curve, connect with people, explore diverse perspectives, and create standout content. From breaking live news and trending memes to top podcasts, live streams, and original videos from yo
X iPhone
X gets 500k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
X is #1 in News Grossing in United States and charting in 30 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 News GrossingX at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-24. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
X is a real-time social media platform for news, live events, and public conversation, targeting users who want to follow breaking stories and engage with global communities. The app holds the #1 position in News Grossing charts across multiple major markets including the US, UAE, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, and India, while also leading free rankings in several European and Asian regions.
Similar apps: Facebook, Instagram, Threads
X on the App Store
App details
Tech stack
App privacy Measured
X’s App Store privacy label declares 7 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 10 linked to your identity and 3 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
X 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 X'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 X before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How X makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | X Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | X Premium Basic (Monthly) subscription | |
| 3 | X Premium Plus (Monthly) subscription | |
| 4 | @elonmusk Subscription subscription | |
| 5 | X Premium (Annual) subscription | |
| 6 | Promote Post for $25 | |
| 7 | @FatKidDeals Subscription subscription | |
| 8 | X Premium Basic (Annual) subscription | |
| 9 | Promote Post for $50 | |
| 10 | X Premium Plus (Annual) subscription |
Hidden keywords
X shows up in App Store search (US) for 1 word that appear nowhere in its name, subtitle or developer name, so they are almost certainly in its private keyword field.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
Germany
South Korea
France
Brazil
Canada
India
Russia
Indonesia
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Italy
China
Mexico
Turkey
Taiwan
Spain
Thailand
Argentina
Poland
Colombia
South Africa
Vietnam
Philippines
Malaysia
Netherlands
SwedenApps near X on the chart
News Grossing, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about X
From the 200 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users frequently praise the platform for real-time news access and the integration of Grok AI, often citing Elon Musk's influence as a positive factor for free speech. However, significant complaints focus on account suspensions without explanation, broken notification interactions, and general app instability.
Mixed but leaning positive (59% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and easy sign-in. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Fun: “Most Entertaining, Gracias”
- Login & account: “Some say I’m Shadow Banned!”
- Features & content: “Best option for real news and real information!!!!”
- Price & subscription: “Reasonably priced and getting better substantially”
Common complaints
- Login & account: “Majority of accounts are bots”
- Price & subscription: “And you have to basically pay for engagement”
- Crashes & bugs: “X not working PROPERLY!!!!!”
- Updates: “Very bad update for an iPad”
About X
It's also a place to be heard. Post your take on the day's news, go live, and grow an audience for whatever you create. Millions of people come to X every day to find out what's happening and talk about it.
WHAT YOU CAN DO ON X
- Follow breaking news – Get news from around the world before it hits the headlines, with real-time updates on trending topics and viral conversations.
- Post to a global community – Share your thoughts, photos, and videos. Join millions of users shaping public dialogue across social, cultural, and political conversations.
- Ask Grok – Grok is the AI assistant powered by X's real-time data. Ask Grok to summarize trending news, explain videos, or give you more context about posts. Grok also powers the photo and video editing tools in the app.
- Create original videos – The built-in Video Editor and Recorder lets you shoot, add multi-language captions, apply green screen effects, and post pro-level content directly in the app.
- Go live on video – Stream a concert, a live game, or your thoughts on a hot topic, and keep your audience engaged with enhanced livestream tools.
- Watch video and podcasts – From live breaking news and sports clips to podcasts and gaming sessions up to 3 hours long. Many of the world's leading voices in comedy, gaming, podcasting, and politics share their content on X.
- Host live audio with Spaces – Spaces is X's audio feature for hosting discussions, holding interviews, or starting your next live podcast.
- Message privately – Connect and chat with friends, followers, customers, or collaborators through Direct Messages.
- Pin Custom Timelines – Custom Timelines are Grok-powered topic feeds you can pin for the topics you follow most.
- Turn on Priority Notifications – Priority Notifications surface your key interactions first.
- Open your History tab – The History tab is one unified place for your bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles.
- Subscribe to X Premium – X Premium unlocks a blue checkmark, boosted visibility, prioritized replies, fewer ads, longer videos, and post editing. It also gives you creator revenue sharing and the ability to offer exclusive content to subscribers.
WHO X IS FOR
X is for people who follow breaking news and live events in real time, for sports, tech, music, and politics fans, for creators and podcasters who stream and create original video content for an audience, and for anyone building a community around gaming, entertainment, crypto, entrepreneurship, or tech.
WHY X?
In a world of constant change, X is your real-time source to stay ahead of the curve, connect with people, explore diverse perspectives, and create standout content. From breaking live news and trending memes to top podcasts, live streams, and original videos from yo
Latest updates
Store changes
What X changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
More from X Corp.
X Android
X gets 500k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
X is #1 in News & Magazines Grossing on Google Play in United States and charting in 23 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
News & Magazines GrossingX at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-22. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
X is a real-time social networking and news platform for global users seeking breaking information, live events, and community engagement. The app holds the #1 position in News & Magazines categories across multiple major markets including India, Brazil, and Indonesia, while also leading grossing charts in regions like Australia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.
Similar apps: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok
X on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Android app v12.29.1-prod.01 · checked 26 Sep 2026
Its iPhone app is most likely native Swift.
X 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 X'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 X before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How X makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | X Premium (Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | X Premium Basic (Monthly) subscription | |
| 3 | X Premium Plus (Monthly) subscription | |
| 4 | @elonmusk Subscription subscription | |
| 5 | X Premium (Annual) subscription | |
| 6 | Promote Post for $25 | |
| 7 | @FatKidDeals Subscription subscription | |
| 8 | X Premium Basic (Annual) subscription | |
| 9 | Promote Post for $50 | |
| 10 | X Premium Plus (Annual) subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
Apps near X on the chart
News & Magazines Grossing, around #1.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about X
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users express strong polarization, with some praising the platform's news utility and speed while others criticize it for hate speech, technical lag, and intrusive biometric verification requirements. Complaints frequently focus on broken account suspension appeals and perceived political bias or poor management under Elon Musk.
Mixed but leaning positive (72% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and missing features or content.
What people like
- Fun: “I'm enjoying using the app”
- Ease of use: “easy to load videos and save images”
- Login & account: “keep getting confused about my password changing”
- Speed & performance
Common complaints
- Login & account: “Totally erase my account from X”
- Features & content: “this boosted feature really annoying”
- Updates: “sorry but update is not good”
- Crashes & bugs: “The automated appeal system is completely broken”
About X
X isn’t just another social media app, it’s the ultimate destination for staying well informed, sharing ideas, and building communities. With X, you’re always in the loop with relevant trending topics and breaking news, delivered instantly to your screen, raw and unfiltered. And when you want deeper context, Grok, the AI assistant powered by X’s real-time data, can explain posts, summarize trends, and help you stay on top of what’s happening.
What You Can Do on X:
• Follow breaking news from around the world before it hits the headlines, and stay ahead of the curve with real-time updates on trending topics and viral conversations.
• Post your thoughts, photos, and videos with a global community. Join millions of users in shaping public dialogue across social, cultural, and political conversations.
• Discover Grok, the AI assistant powered by X’s real-time data. You can ask Grok to summarize trending news, explain videos, or give you more context about posts.
• Stream live video or go live with Spaces, our audio feature that enables you to host discussions, hold interviews, or start your next live podcast. Whether you're streaming a concert, a live game, or your thoughts on a hot topic, X keeps your audience engaged.
• Watch videos: from live breaking news and sports clips to podcasts and gaming sessions that last up to 3 hours long. Many of the world’s leading voices, in comedy, gaming, podcasting, and politics, all share their content on X.
• Connect and chat privately with friends, followers, customers, or collaborators through Direct Messages.
• Join and build communities tailored to your interests: from sports news, gaming, entertainment, crypto, entrepreneurship, tech, and more.
• Subscribe to X Premium to unlock exclusive features like a blue checkmark, boosted visibility, prioritized replies, fewer ads, longer videos, and post editing. X Premium also gives you access to creator revenue sharing and the ability to offer exclusive content to subscribers.
Why X?
In a world of constant change, X is your real-time source to stay ahead of the curve, connect with people, and explore diverse perspectives. From breaking live news and trending memes to top podcasts and live streams from your favorite creators, X brings it all together in one powerful social experience.
Store changes
What X changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Similar apps
Apps people compare with X: the same core purpose or gameplay, checked one by one.
