Here are last month’s top grossing mobile games based on in-app purchase earnings, according to Appmagic data.
These IAP estimates do not include ad revenue, web shop spend, Apple and Google’s 30% cut or revenue from China’s Android ecosystem.
There’s commentary on which way the biggest earners are trending, and other interesting tidbits from the top 20 and beyond below.
In between these monthly updates, you can keep tabs on Appmagic’s top grossing and top downloads charts anytime here.
A data blackspot around Roblox iOS revenue means that only now is Appmagic showing the full extent of Roblox’s spectacular summer.
Now the data is in, we can see Roblox posted an estimated $152m+ in IAP earnings for July, and just under $150m in August – monster numbers, but still not enough to topple the mighty Honor of Kings.
And yet, as with the downloads chart, despite the September comedown, Roblox has come out on top with just over $122m in IAP earnings for September.
Longtime top performer LastWar’s earnings (just under $118m) are actually down month-on-month too, and for the second month running. But it also managed to leapfrog Honor of Kings, which ended September in third.
Tencent’s monster MOBA has had a very spiky revenue chart in the last six months, and that continued in September: it dropped from earning ~$173m in August to just under $116m last month.
Whiteout Survival holds firm in fourth despite a month-on-month revenue drop from $127.5m in August to just over $109m last month.
Indeed, September being a day shorter means steady performers Royal Match, Monopoly Go and Candy Crush Saga are each down a little bit month-on-month so they’re essentially flat, all things being equal.
The biggest real-terms decline by far is in PUBG Mobile, whose earnings cratered from ~$132m in August to just under $77m in September, its lowest monthly total since December 2024.
The Clash Royale comeback, meanwhile, sees Supercell’s action-strategy game post another month in the $68m-ish range, having leapt up dramatically from regularly earning $11-13m every month at the start of the year.
Century Games’ second big hit, Kingshot, breaks into the top ten for the first time here with over $66m earned in September. It’s actually down a fraction on August’s numbers, but as mentioned before, September is a day shorter so it’s up a little bit in real terms.
September’s top grossing games: 11-20
11. Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story (Microfun): $58.4m
12. Delta Force (Tencent): $58.1m
13. Coin Master (Moon Active): $46.5m
14. Township (Playrix): $33.8m
15. Last Z: Survival Shooter (Florere): $33.4m
16. TFT Mobile (Tencent): $33.3m
17. Pokémon Go (Niantic): $32.3m
18. Gardenscapes (Playrix): $31.5m
19. Dungeon & Fighter: Origins (Tencent): $29.9m
20. Royal Kingdom (Dream Games): $29m
In 11th, Gossip Harbor continues to scale, posting its seventh consecutive month of earnings growth to hit a record $58.4m. After a wobble in August, Tencent shooter Delta Force is also doing well – it also posted a new record monthly earnings total last month with $58m.
Coin Master is easing off a little bit. Where previously it rarely dropped below $50m in terms of monthly earnings – and often earned over $70m – it has now posted two months running in the high $40m bracket.
LastWar-alike Last Z: Survival Shooter is scaling fast; China-based Florere’s second game after Dark War: Survival has come from nowhere at the start of the year to hit a record $33.4m in September. It’s now in 15th place.
TFT Mobile had a good month in September, rising seven places, while Pokémon Go dropped eight spots after riding high on some lucrative live ops and events over the summer. IAP earnings for September are under half what they were in August – a drop from over $71m to $32m last month.
A solid month for Royal Kingdom sees it sneak into the top 20 for the first time, while outside the top 20, Honkai: Star Rail is still between earnings spikes and Genshin Impact has recovered a little bit after its own pretty notable decline. The latter title is up from posting about $19m in August to ~$27m in September.
Another title losing a little momentum is Pokémon TCG Pocket, which was once a regular in the top ten. It has dropped down to 26th place, having earned about $26m in September.
A big earnings bump for Umamusume: Pretty Derby following its western launch seems to passed, too – the ‘horse girl’ game is down in 30th spot, having earned about $22m in September.
