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Best apps in 🇿🇦 South Africa, September 2026

Four lists from Apple's own charts, read every morning: the most downloaded free apps, the best rated among the hundred most downloaded, the top paid and the top grossing. Ratings are the store's, positions are today's, and movement is against yesterday. Nothing here is estimated.

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Most downloaded free apps

Apple's top free chart, ZA, today.

  1. 1 Life360: Family Safety & GPSLife360 4.8★ ▲1
  2. 2 Disney+Disney 1.8★ ▲1
  3. 3 Gauteng e-Panic ButtonGauteng Provincial Government 3.2★ ▼2
  4. 4 Gauth: AI Study CompanionGAUTHTECH PTE. LTD. 4.7★ ▲1
  5. 5 ChatGPTOpenAI OpCo, LLC 4.8★ ▲1
  6. 6 GoTyme Bank | South AfricaTyme Bank Ltd 4.6★ ▼2
  7. 7 Temu: Shop Like a BillionaireTemu 4.5★ ·
  8. 8 TikTok - Videos, Music & LIVETikTok Ltd. 4.8★ ▲21
  9. 9 FacebookMeta Platforms, Inc. 4.7★ ▲15
  10. 10 YouTubeGoogle 4.7★ ▲11
  11. 11 SHEIN-Shopping OnlineROADGET BUSINESS PTE. LTD. 4.6★ ▼1
  12. 12 Spotify: Music and PodcastsSpotify 4.7★ ▲11
  13. 13 Capitec BankCapitec Bank Limited 3.6★ ▲6
  14. 14 CapCut: Photo & Video EditorBytedance Pte. Ltd 4.5★ ▼2
  15. 15 Google MapsGoogle 4.7★ ▼4
All 100, with movers and drop-outs →

Best rated of the top 100

Highest star rating among the hundred most downloaded, at least 500 ratings.

  1. 1 Bible#98 free · 496,332 ratings 4.90
  2. 2 Uber - Request a ride#38 free · 486,583 ratings 4.90
  3. 3 DramaWave - Dramas & Reels#74 free · 7,678 ratings 4.90
  4. 4 Takealot - Mobile Shopping App#29 free · 721,588 ratings 4.80
  5. 5 TikTok - Videos, Music & LIVE#8 free · 401,165 ratings 4.80
  6. 6 Mr D - Groceries & Takeaway#35 free · 395,771 ratings 4.80
  7. 7 FNB Banking App#51 free · 363,492 ratings 4.80
  8. 8 Microsoft Outlook#67 free · 273,384 ratings 4.80
  9. 9 ChatGPT#5 free · 265,211 ratings 4.80
  10. 10 inDrive: rides at your price#48 free · 251,587 ratings 4.80

Top paid apps

  1. 1 Minecraft: Dream it, Build it! 4.4★
  2. 2 Grade 12 Life Sciences 5.0★
  3. 3 Shadowrocket 3.3★
  4. 4 play_music_theory —
  5. 5 Plague Inc. 4.8★
  6. 6 Duty Court 4.4★
  7. 7 Pedi STAT 5.0★
  8. 8 Difela Tsa Sione by ZolApps 4.7★
All 100 →

Top grossing apps

  1. 1 ChatGPT 4.8★
  2. 2 TikTok - Videos, Music & LIVE 4.8★
  3. 3 YouTube 4.7★
  4. 4 Instagram 4.7★
  5. 5 Claude by Anthropic 4.7★
  6. 6 LinkedIn: Community & Career 4.8★
  7. 7 Gmail - Email by Google 4.8★
  8. 8 Disney+ 1.8★
All 100 →

Most downloaded on Google Play

ZA, today
  1. 1WhatsApp Messenger 4.6★
  2. 2GoTyme Bank | South Africa 4.5★
  3. 3MovieBox：Movies & Series 4.5★
  4. 4TikTok 4.3★
  5. 5Facebook Lite 4.6★
  6. 6Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire 4.5★
  7. 7TikTok Lite - Save Data 4.5★
  8. 8Gauteng e-Panic Button 3.9★
  9. 9ChatGPT 4.7★
  10. 10Movie Box LLC 4.4★
Google Play chart, all rows →

How "best" is decided

Downloads decide the first list: Apple's top free chart for South Africa, which ranks by installs over the last days. The second list takes those hundred apps and sorts them by the star rating South Africa users gave them, ignoring apps with fewer than 500 ratings so a handful of five-star reviews cannot win. Paid and grossing come straight from Apple's charts. We add no score of our own and take no placement fees.

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