Kindle App Review – Kindle App Reviews, Kindle Games

Here are the current Kindle App Rankings from the Kindle Store -

1. Word Search. At #15 in the Kindle Store.
2. Panda Poet at #42 in the Kindle Store.
3. Mahjong Solitaire. At #48 in the Kindle Store.
4. Flip It at #71. Disclosure: This is a 7 Dragons app.
5. EA Solitaire at #88.
6. Tic Tac Toe at #107. Disclosure: This is a 7 Dragons App.
7. EA Sudoku at #130.
8. Triple Town. At #150 in the Kindle Store.
9. Easy Calculator is at #179 in the Kindle Store.
10. Maze A Thon is at #180 in the Kindle Store.
11. True Backgammon is at #185 in the Kindle Store.
12. NY Times Crosswords Volume 1 is at #209 in the Kindle Store.
13. Monopoly is at #270.
14. Choice of the Dragon at #440 in the Kindle Store.
15. EA Texas Hold’em is at #593.
16. NY Times Crosswords Volume 2 is at #604 in the Kindle Store.
17. Brain Bump Literature. At #636 in the Kindle Store.
18. Slingo by Gameblend is at #650 in the Kindle Store.
19. Sudoku Unbound is at #685 in the Kindle Store.
20. Hangman 4 Kids. At #913 in the Kindle Store.
21. Hangman at #1,205 in the Kindle Store.
22. Choice of Broadsides at #1,336 in the Kindle Store.
23. Match Genius is at #1,498 in the Kindle Store.
24. Jumble, 200 Puzzles. At #1,698 in the Kindle Store.
25. Dusk World is at #2,582 in the Kindle Store.
26. Anywhere Abs is at #2,909 in the Kindle Store.
27. Next is at #2,948 in the Kindle Store.
28. NY Times Crosswords Volume 3 is at #3,155 in the Kindle Store.
29. Jumble, 50 Puzzles. At #3,992 in the Kindle Store.
30. Jumble, 20 Puzzles. At #4,161 in the Kindle Store.
31. NY Times Crosswords Volume 5 at #4,772.
32. Wordoku Unbound at #5,634 in the Kindle Store.
33. NY Times Crosswords Volume 4. This is at #6,767.
34. NY Times Crosswords Volume 6. This is way down at #13,412.
35. Symdoku Unbound at #24,825 in the Kindle Store.

Rankings for Free Kindle Apps

Please note that all rankings here are in the Free Section of the Kindle Store.

1. Video Poker is at #1 in the Kindle Store amongst free items.
2. Blackjack is at #19 in the Kindle Store.
3. Every Word is at #26.
4. Shuffled Row is at #28.
5. Mine Sweeper is at #49.
6. Jumble, 3 Free Puzzles is at #79.

With the rule against advertising in apps it’s not a surprise that there are only 6 free kindle apps.

Fragmentation doesn’t work

One big takeaway from this month’s Kindle App Rankings list is that the genius idea to split one app into parcels i.e.

1. Jumble being Jumble 20, Jumble 50, and Jumble 200.
2. NY Times Crosswords being split across 6 volumes.

Doesn’t really work.

Perhaps Word Search can make it work as its Volume 1 went up as high as #3, spent 3-4 days in the Top 10, and is still at #15 after around 5 days. However, it provides a lot more value for money than what the NY Times and Jumble ‘Volume 1’ apps provide.

Why aren’t Puzzazz’s apps doing better?

Puzzazz’s 3 apps (Symdoku Unbound, Sudoku Unbound, Wordoku Unbound) are all pretty interesting. Yet, only one of them is in the Top 1,000 in the Kindle Store.

My rather poorly thought out opinion would be that they need to change their images. They are going for a cutesy, casual look but people assume that the level of polish of the cover image is the level of polish of the app.

At least that’s what people do with books. Judge the book by the cover.

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