Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps

Google AdMob 123 Apps (62% of Top 200)

AdMob helps a user monetize a mobile app through in-app advertising. Ads can be displayed as banner, interstitial, video, or native ads—which are seamlessly added to platform native UI components. AdMob uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK which helps app developers gain insights about their users and maximize ad revenue.

Google Analytics 106 Apps (53% of Top 200)

Google Analytics provides insight on app usage, user engagement, and cross-network attribution. It is natively integrated with Firebase, Google's app developer platform, and provides unlimited reporting for up to 500 distinct events, helping to understand clearly how app users behave.

Firebase 104 Apps (52% of Top 200)

Firebase is a mobile and web app development platform that provides developers with a plethora of tools and services to help them develop high-quality apps, grow their user base, and earn more profit.

Facebook 99 Apps (50% of Top 200)

Facebook provides the easiest way to track success of App Ads, implement powerful sharing or let people log into an app with Facebook. Among other tools, this SDK provides anonymized audience insight about the people interacting with the app as well as a way for people to login to the app through Facebook. It also contains five component SDKs that can be connected to individually.

Firebase Analytics 87 Apps (44% of Top 200)

Firebase is a Google Analytics for Firebase, a free and unlimited analytics solution. Analytics integrates across Firebase features and provides you with unlimited analytics solution.

Facebook Share Kit 86 Apps (43% of Top 200)

FB SDK ShareKitfor iOSpeople can also share content from your app to Facebook Messenger with Messenger Expression Platform or from Sharing's Message Dialog in iOSSDK.

Crashlytics 84 Apps (42% of Top 200)

Crashlytics is a powerful and lightweight tool that delivers interactive, detailed crash reports in realtime. Crashlytics performs deep analyses of each thread and uses a multi-symbolication process to provide progressively higher levels of detail. It is one of the modular kits contained within Fabric and is available in both iOSand Android versions.

Facebook Login 75 Apps (38% of Top 200)

Facebook Login provides a way for users to login to an app using their Facebook account. It also allows users to grant permissions to the app to access their information or perform actions on Facebook on their behalf. There are also identical SDK's available for android and web development.

AF Networking 59 Apps (30% of Top 200)

AFNetworking is an Objective-C networking library for iOSand Mac OS X that is built on top of the Foundation URL Loading System. This helps to extend the powerful high-level networking abstractions built into Cocoa. In addition to basic networking features, AFNetworking also includes more advanced ones such as Network Reachability and SSL Pinning. Also built by the Alamofire Software Foundation, Alamofire is the Swift equivalent of AFNetworking.

Google 56 Apps (28% of Top 200)

Google APIs is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.

Socket Rocket 54 Apps (27% of Top 200)

Socket Rocket Framework is a conforming WebSocket (RFC 6455) client library for iOS, macOS and tvOS. This is Facebook's SRWebSocket library.

Facebook Core Kit 52 Apps (26% of Top 200)

The Facebook CoreKit SDK allows for sharing of data with Facebook, including information about users of the app. Facebook will use information received in accordance with their Data Use Policy.

WhatsApp 51 Apps (26% of Top 200)

Whatsapp is a web-based mobile messaging platform that can be easily implimented into any app. The Whatsapp messaging SDK runs on iOS8 and later.

Flipboard 49 Apps (25% of Top 200)

Naver 42 Apps (21% of Top 200)

Naver is a collection of APIs including, Clover Platform, Papago, Naver Maps, and Naver Login. Navers APIs have multiple use cases including, voice technologies and services, translation, and location-based applications.

Firebase Remote Config 42 Apps (21% of Top 200)

Firebase Remote Config is a cloud service that lets you change the appearance and behavior of your app without requiring users to download an app update. Firebase Remote Config is open source and let's you create in-app default values that control the behavior and appearance of your app with the potential to use the Firebase console or the Remote Config REST API to override in-app default values for all app users or for segments of your user base.

Protobuf 41 Apps (21% of Top 200)

Protocol Buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. Protocol Buffers currently support generated code in Java, Python, Objective-C, and C++

Answers 40 Apps (20% of Top 200)

Answers provides realtime statistics on how the app is being used such as number of active users, session length, stability rating, and retention. Answers is one of the modular kits contained within Fabric and it is strongly suggested to be installed via Crashlytics.

Facebook Audience Network 40 Apps (20% of Top 200)

Facebook Audience Network is designed to maximize revenue with diverse demand from global advertisers. Facebook Audience Network helps you monetize your app by showing highly targeted ads that match the interests of your users.

Twitter 40 Apps (20% of Top 200)

Using the Twitter API requires an authorized Twitter App and authenticated requests. The Twitter API supports a few authentication methods depending on the endpoint.