Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, research and code
First principle
People have always wanted a reliable colleague to hand the hard work to. Claude takes in the whole document or codebase, then does the job rather than just answering.
The needs it meets
- Getting things doneCore
- Getting a task done with less time and effort.
- Knowing
- Finding things out, understanding, keeping up with the world.
Why it wins
- Code is what it is best known for: the same models run Claude Code, and subscribers can hand off a programming task from the Code tab in the phone app; it keeps running in the cloud after the phone is put away.
- Long documents, PDFs and screenshots go straight in; it reads them through, then summarises, rewrites or picks out problems, the close reading that reports and contracts need.
- It connects to Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive, so answers draw on your own mail and files without copying and pasting.
- In February 2026 Anthropic promised that Claude will stay free of ads, with answers not shaped by advertisers, which makes it easier to trust with work and private matters.
What keeps it ahead
- Better product
- Clearly better at the core thing.
- Brand and IP
- People knew it already: the brand, the characters, the stars.
How it makes money
Subscriptions
The free tier works; Pro and Max subscriptions raise the limits by tier and include Claude Code, and those in app subscriptions put it second on the world grossing list; Anthropic says it does not earn from ads.
What a small team can take from it
The Max plan shows that people who use a tool all day will pay several times the usual price for higher limits. If a small product has heavy users, price it in usage tiers instead of one flat plan.
This week
- World: top grossing apps, number 2, in 10 of 10 countriesIndia App Store 3 · India Google Play 3 · Germany App Store 4 · Indonesia App Store 4 · France App Store 6 · Korea App Store 6
- World: top free apps, number 2, in 10 of 10 countriesGermany App Store 1 · France App Store 1 · Korea App Store 3 · France Google Play 5 · US App Store 6 · UK App Store 6
updated 29 October 2026
- Developer
- Anthropic PBC
- Category
- App · Productivity
- Stores
- App Store, Google Play
- First in a list
- 29 October 2026
Sources
This is our analysis and judgement, drafted by an AI agent from the store pages and public sources and read by a person before it went up. Every figure has a source; where there is none, we give no figure. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].