MATR 2026

Habit keeps apps installed. Understanding users is what keeps apps loved.

What 13,750 users reveal about the products they value, and where the next investment pays the most.

Mobile App Trends Report 2026: Audio chapters

Explore our report in audio chapters

Listen to the chapters as audio episodes, adapted for commutes, walks, and the gaps between meetings. Each episode follows the findings, arguments, and implications from the report in a format built for listening rather than scrolling.

Chapter 2: What strong apps get right

The strongest products balance all four drivers and complete the job users came for.

What strong apps get right
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What strong apps get right
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Chapter 3: Where to play

Install rate and product quality rarely move together, creating four distinct market positions.

Where to play
  • 14 min
Where to play
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Chapter 4: Technical performance

Technical quality is expected across most categories, but still unresolved in others.

Technical performance
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Technical performance
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Chapter 5: Experience

Clarity, structure, and modern design shape how users judge product quality.

Experience
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Experience
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Chapter 6: Trust

AI raises the importance of trust because users increasingly rely on systems they cannot fully see or verify.

Trust
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Trust
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Chapter 7: The open ground

Most products cover baseline functionality. Few adapt intelligently to the user behind it.

The open ground
  • 15 min
The open ground
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Chapter 8: AI raises the bar

AI products are raising expectations while exposing which moats still hold.

AI raises the bar
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AI raises the bar
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Chapter 9: Future readiness

The report’s findings condensed into the strategic moves product teams can act on next.

Future readiness
  • 15 min
Future readiness
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