Ruzzle, Amazing Ants, eBay and more on this week’s top free mobile apps charts

Word game Ruzzle is showing no signs of slowing down from its recent explosion up the top free iPhone and Android apps charts, landing at the No. 1 spot on iPhone and No. 3 spot on Android this week. The official Twitter account for Ruzzle tweeted that the game, which released back in March 2012, now has racked up more than 15 million users.

Physics platformer Amazing Ants immediately shot up the charts since its release last week, landing at the No. 2 spot on this week’s top free iPad apps chart. Pocket Gems announced back in December 2012 that it was getting into game publishing, a new venture for the company, with Twyngo-developed Amazing Ants as one of their first third-party titles it would release.

Aside from Ruzzle, eBay was the other notable app on the top free Android apps chart as the rest of the chart remained similar to last week’s chart. Despite the app not being updated since November 2012, while it’s iOS counterpart was updated recently, eBay came it at the No. 25 spot.

This week’s top free iPhone apps

	Name	Rank	Change	In App Purchases
1.	Ruzzle	1	=	Yes
2.	The Blockheads	2	=	No
3.	Google Maps	3	=	No
4.	Fun Run	4	=	Yes
5.	YouTube	5	=	No
6.	Subway Surfers	6	=	Yes
7.	Bingo Vegas	7	▲1	Yes
8.	AppGratis	8	▼1	No
9.	Candy Crush Saga	9	=	Yes
10.	Split Pic	10	▲3	Yes
11.	Snapchat	11	▼1	No
12.	Flow Free	12	▼1	Yes
13.	Hill Climb Racing	13	▲1	Yes
14.	Icon Pop Quiz	14	▼2	Yes
15.	A Little War	15	▲6	No
16.	Emoji & Unicode Icons	16	▼1	No
17.	iFunFace	17		No
18.	Instagram	18	▼2	No
19.	Facebook Messenger	19	=	No
20.	Flashlight Ⓞ	20	▼2	No
21.	Bike Race Free by Top Free Games	21	▲1	Yes
22.	Scramble With Friends Free	22	▲1	Yes
23.	Freeze! : l’évasion	23	▼6	No
24.	Find My iPhone	24	=	No
25.x	Lumosity Brain Trainer	25	▲1	Yes

This week’s top free iPad apps

	Name	Rank	Change	In App Purchases
1.	The Blockheads	1	=	No
2.	Amazing Ants	2	=	No
3.	YouTube	3	=	No
4.	Candy Crush Saga	4	=	Yes
5.	Subway Surfers	5	=	Yes
6.	Noble Nutlings	6	=	No
7.	Calculator for iPad Free	7	=	Yes
8.	Skype for iPad	8	=	Yes
9.	The Weather Channel for iPad	9	▲1	No
10.	Netflix	10	▲1	No
11.	LEGO City Fire Hose Frenzy	11	▲8	No
12.	Fun Run	12	▼3	Yes
13.	Angry Birds Star Wars HD Free	13	=	No
14.	Flow Free	14	=	Yes
15.	Flowpaper	15	▲384	Yes
16.	Bingo Seasons HD	16	▼1	Yes
17.	Disney Super Speedway	17	▼1	Yes
18.	Fly Delta for iPad	18	▼6	No
19.	eBay for iPad	19	▲4	No
20.	Pinterest	20	▲2	No
21.	iBooks	21	▼4	No
22.	Podcasts	22	▼4	No
23.	Kindle	23	▲1	No
24.	Icon Pop Quiz	24	▼4	Yes
25.x	Chrome	25	▲25	No

This week’s top free Android apps

	Name	Rank	Change
1.	Facebook	1	=
2.	Pandora	2	=
3.	Ruzzle Free	3	=
4.	Instagram	4	=
5.	Facebook Messenger	5	=
6.	Subway Surfers	6	=
7.	Skype	7	=
8.	Fun Run	8	=
9.	Temple Run	9	▲2
10.	Twitter	10	=
11.	Netflix	11	▼2
12.	Angry Birds Star Wars	12	=
13.	Tango	13	=
14.	Zedge	14	=
15.	Flow Free	15	=
16.	Candy Crush Saga	16	▲17
17.	Adobe Reader	17	▲2
18.	Angry Birds	18	=
19.	Brightest Flashlight Free	19	▼2
20.	Hill Climb Racing	20	▲3
21.	Yahoo! Mail	21	▼1
22.	Fruit Ninja Free	22	=
23.	Words With Friends Free	23	▼2
24.	Pinterest	24	=
25.x	eBay	25	=

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service AppData.

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