Flappy Bird leads the list of ‘silly’ apps making billions of dong

According to iDropnews, the App Store used to be like the wild west, where anyone could find anything in it, with new and amazing stuff. Some apps became instant hits because of how useful and novel they were.

Some are quite silly but make a lot of money for Developersfrom the bird games in Nguyen Ha Dong’s Flappy Bird to the strange apps…

iFart

iFart is an app that makes farting noises. It’s as simple as that, but it attracts a lot of people to love and download it. When asked how much money such an app makes, people might be surprised. Reports show that iFart made more than 50,000 USD (nearly 1.15 billion VND) every week of the day.

iFart earns developers $50,000 per week App Store

It may not be popular now but over time it is estimated that the app has made several million dollars. Even now, users can still try the app out if they understand what the fuss is about.

iBeer

iBeer is one of the successful applications in adding the letter “i” to copy the success of Apple. This app will turn your iPhone’s home screen into beer. Thanks to the iPhone’s gyroscope, users can tilt their iPhone close to their mouth and look like they’re drinking beer from their iPhone.

That’s its most popular feature, but it also has other features that can help users use iPhones to do magic tricks or trick friends and family into thinking they’ve cracked the screen.

It may seem silly, but at its peak, the iBeer app had more than 90 million users, helping developers make more than $20,000 per day.

Yo

Application This is pretty silly, but it still makes a lot of money. Back when voice messages weren’t as ubiquitous as they are today, Yo provided another way to communicate with friends and family. User can say Yo and send it to his friends and family, then someone can reply back but they can only do it with one word Yo.

Yo was seen as a joke when it was released on April 1st, 2014 Google Play Store

The app was released on April Fool (1.4) 2014, so it’s like a joke. But that hasn’t stopped the app’s popularity, which has earned an estimated $2.5 million in revenue.

Flappy Bird

Flappy Bird – a silly game by the author Vietnamese people Nguyen Ha Dong created a storm on the app stores. The game content is very simple: how to make the bird that can’t fly move as far as possible. Players need to tap to go up or release to go down and avoid the green pipes that look like in Super Mario.

Flappy Bird so addictive that it forced Nguyen Ha Dong to remove it from the app stores Screen capture

It’s simple, silly, but extremely addictive. The success of the game is that so many people want to play it. Before removing the game, Ha Dong also made a lot of money for his project. Flappy Bird estimated revenue of more than 320 million USD (more than 7,345 billion VND). There are times when the app brings in $50,000 in revenue per day.