The best iPhone app for the job, ranked S to F.

Each list ranks the iPhone apps that do one job. An app's score out of 100 is the plain average of four public App Store signals: its rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store ranks it for that list's searches in five countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany), and how recently it was updated. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge has a fifth signal of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Each list shows when it was last scored. Nothing on the site is for sale. The full method

The newest scores are from Oct 19, 2026. Each list shows its own date.

The same rankings are free as JSON and over MCP, with no key.

• MCP server, with setup for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code: claude mcp add --transport http apptierlist https://apptierlist.com/mcp
• JSON API and OpenAPI
• llms.txt
• Submit an app