Shopping and Roblox named among most popular Apple App Store downloads of 2024 Temu and Shien were named the most popular free iPhone app downloads of the year in the UK.

Even Apple acknowledged this when a marketing head, Trystan Kosmynka, expressed “surprise” that Roblox was approved for the App Store in 2017 in an email.

As scrutiny around Apple’s and Google’s app store fees ramps up around the world, Roblox is now offering users who buy its game currency, Robux, on the web and via gift cards 25% more than ...

The change — which Roblox developers praised online — comes as a slight ding to platforms like the Apple App Store since it disincentivizes purchases mediated by such app stores.

After Epic appealed on its antitrust case against Apple's App Store, Roblox stated that the store enhances "safety and security" to users.