What's the best country to launch an iOS app?

The one where your niche has the most badly rated established apps, against the country's norm, and where users still leave reviews. Victoire runs that math for every niche, country by country.

Should I launch in the US first?

Not necessarily. It's the biggest App Store, but also one of the most contested in many niches. Compare first: a niche locked there can be open in the UK, Canada or Germany.

What does “locked” mean?

Very few weak apps compared with the country's norm: the incumbents do the job. To get in, you need a sharp angle, not a copy.

Where do the figures come from?

Public App Store ratings, reviews and charts, country by country, updated around the clock. An app counts as established from 50 reviews. Revenue and downloads in the tool are rounded estimates.

Markets

The right country, before the first line of code.

One niche, country by country: how many apps disappoint, and whether it still moves. Where the incumbents are bad, there's room.

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The Victoire Markets tool: App Store categories compared by share of poorly rated apps, median rating and momentum.

How it works

Find the right country in four moves

Pick a niche
Photo, travel, health, finance… any App Store category.
Count the apps that disappoint
In each country, we count the installed apps rated under 4 ★. The more there are, the more apps there are to beat.
Check that it moves
Disappointing apps in a market where nobody leaves ratings is a dead market. We also check that users are active.
Launch where there's room
Lots of disappointing apps and active users: that's your country. Same app, same code, just a translated listing.

One niche, every country

Compare before you code.

Pick a niche: Victoire shows, country by country, how many apps disappoint their users and whether the market is still moving. A niche locked at home can be wide open elsewhere.

Every tracked country
The same niche everywhere
How strict each country rates
Users who are still active

Compare my niche

Your AI

Ask your AI where to launch.

Plug Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor into Victoire and ask the question as is. Your AI compares the countries for you and answers with the numbers.

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ChatGPT
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The verdict

One word per country, not a spreadsheet.

Each country gets a verdict that accounts for how strictly it rates and how much the market moves. You read the answer, not the math.

Room to grow
Weak but quiet
Contested
Locked

See my niche's verdict

The traps

Four ways to pick the wrong country

The mistakes we see most often, and how Victoire avoids them.

The dead market
Lots of poorly rated apps, but nobody leaves ratings: the users are gone. Victoire checks momentum too.
The imposed software
Banking, school, work apps: hated, but nobody picks them. Untouchable for a solo dev.
The strict country
Some countries rate harder than others. Victoire compares each niche to the country's average, not to other countries.
The biggest App Store
The US attracts everyone, so everyone is there. The best country is often a smaller one.