11 Startups that Make Top-Grossing Applications for iPhone


Bangalore: Smartphone applications have always been extremely luring and irresistible, especially when it comes to games. With companies like Apple, Google and Facebook ready to takeover the apps market, the startups have buckled up to develop the finest possible apps to overload their app-stores.

Following the path drawn by app developing firms like Instagram and OMGPOP which got acquired for hundreds of millions, startup firms are now developing some of the finest gaming applications to make their mark in this booming market. Some of these applications available on the iphone app-store are ranked in the top 25 applications in the market.

Let’s take a look at the startups and their gaming applications which are sweeping millions from the market.

11. Pocket Gems

Top Application: Tap Paradise Cove

Rank: 23

Price: Free

Founded by Daniel Terry and Harlan Crystal in 2009, this startup has numerous gaming apps on iphone app-store. Their application Tap Paradise Cove has attracted millions of users by letting them hunt treasure and unlock the secrets of the paradise.

10. Phoenix Age

Top Application: Castle Age HD

Rank: 20

Price: Free

Castle Age HD developed by Phoenix Age, founded in 2009, has over fifteen million users. The multiplayer game creates a fictitious world of castles and kingdoms and projects challenges like attacking dragons to keep the user intrigued.