The Apple TV’s App Store is bursting at the seams with growth

It’s been a little under six weeks since the fourth-generation Apple TV, packed with the new tvOS software, arrived on the scene and the platform is teaming with third-party apps.

According to the report, the top categories of apps actually being downloaded are Entertainment, followed by Games, News, Sports, Education, then Weather, Finance, Music, Photography and Utilities.

Enlight by Israeli developer Lightricks (designed in a challenge to Adobe), and Lara Croft GO by Japan’s much-loved Square Enix, won app and game of the year respectively in Apple’s “Best of 2015” round-up released Wednesday.

As for games, it’s the largest group of apps by far, with over 1,000 apps in the category, letting games make up 38 percent of the Apple TV app store.

The separate list of the top 10 Apple TV games was led by Rayman Adventures (the newest in the the popular mobile app Rayman franchise) and includes Guitar Hero Live and Just Dance Now. “And the general vibe is that if things don’t turn around following Christmas, Apple is going to have a real problem on their hands as “successful” apps are making $100 a day on a good day”.

Children’s education app The Robot Factory was named best iPad app, while the title of most innovative app of the year went to Workflow.

“We debated. We argued”. Previously, in order to listen to Pandora on the new Apple TV, users had to beam music from the service to their TV using an iPhone or iPad via Apple’s AirPlay technology. “I think Apple TV expands the gaming market to those people”.

“We wanted to build a teleportation device”, says Beykpour.

While the iTunes App store seems to feature free-to-play games and apps that support themselves via in-app purchases and advertising, the Apple TV store is seeing quite a few more paid apps.