Looks Like American TikTok’s Problems Are Sending Users Flocking to Alternatives

According to Appfigures, the top five free iPhone apps right now in the U.S. are:

1. ChatGPT
2. JumpJumpVPN
3. V2Box
4. UpScrolled
5. Threads

Yesterday, Apple blogger John Gruber of Daring Fireball posted the overall most popular iPhone apps for all of 2025, and the top five were:

1. ChatGPT
2. Threads
3. Google
4. TikTok 
5. WhatsApp

I’m not the first person to point this out, but it’s not exactly a stretch to infer that the three apps that have suddenly squeezed in between ChatGPT and…