I made a (ugly) page showing the most downloaded apps from @fdroidorg servers: https://grote.gitlab.io/fdroid-metrics-distilled/
It exposes some JSON endpoints as well.
@grote @fdroidorg did you consider taking into account the number of releases? I guess that the more updates an app will have, the more downloads it will get (users updating the app). Or is that already accounted for?
@mimi89999
Yes, you are right. This is just naive data distillation. Numbers aren't to be taken at face value. You'd also have to consider that most downloads happen through mirrors.
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