As part of Apple's 1 billion apps contest last week , the company also posted a link to a special iTunes page listing the twenty most popular free and paid apps, apparently by the number downloaded.

As part of Apple's 1 billion apps contest last week , the company also posted a link to a special iTunes page listing the twenty most popular free and paid apps in its Apps Store, apparently by the number downloaded.Last week, a somewhat similar study by third-party analyst company comScore found that, of their research, the free app TapTapRevenge was the application that most users had installed. Apple's list only reports the most popular apps. As comScore noted, however, the vast majority of them are games. Apple's most popular paid applications are listed below. Apple doesn't specifically state that they are the most downloaded apps, only that the list was the company's "most popular offerings," and "determined by you":

1.) Vivendi Games' Crash Bandicoot Nitro Cart 3D ($5.99)

2.) The Blimp Pilots' Koi Pond ($0.99)

3.) Pangea Software' Enigmo ($3.99)

4.) Popcap Games' Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)

5.) Hottrix's iBeer ($1.99)

6.) Freeverse's Moto Chaser ($0.99)

7.) Shinya Kasatani's PocketGuitar ($0.99)

8.) Freeverse's Flick Fishing ($0.99)

9.) Electronic Arts' Tetris ($4.99)

10.) Apple's Texas Hold 'Em ($4.99)

11.) Sega's Super Monkey Ball ($5.99)

12.) Bolt Creative's Pocket God ($0.99)

13.) Pangea Software's Cro-Mag Rally ($0.99)

14.) Smule's Ocarina ($0.99)

15.) Subatomic Studios' Fieldrunners ($2.99)

16.) InfoMedia's iFart Mobile ($0.99)

17.) Illusion Labs' Touchgrind ($4.99)

18.) John Moffett's iHunt ($0.99)

19.) Ethan Nicholas' iShoot ($1.99)

20.) Electronic Arts' Monopoly Here & Now ($4.99)



For Apple's top free apps, check out the original post on AppScout.