What this page ranks, and what it does not
France's mobile scene is two industries, not one. Game companies and non-game app companies both fund, launch and grow apps, but almost nothing else about them matches. Games monetize sessions, through in-app purchases and advertising. Non-game apps monetize a recurring job — editing a photo, tuning a guitar, scanning a document — mostly through subscriptions.
This page ranks app companies: every French company that ships apps, whatever its business model, including those whose app is the front desk of an off-store business. That is deliberately wider than the companion rankings, which cover app publishers — companies whose declared business is publishing apps they did not necessarily build. Of the French companies on this page, only MWM and Luni in apps and Green Panda Games in games are publishers; the rest build their own products or run a service.
The games/apps line is computed, not judged: a company is classified by where its downloads come from, more than 75% on one side deciding the table. In France the split is unusually clean — every company ranked here sits above 97% on one side of it.
Disclosure: mwm.ai is operated by MWM, which appears in these rankings. All companies are ranked by the same criteria, described in the methodology below.
App (non-game) companies
In non-game apps, MWM leads France past 300 million lifetime iOS downloads — three times Elokence, the next French company on the list. Behind them, a dense second wave that older rankings do not track at all: Elokence, VideoLAN, Luni, Photoroom, Yuka, The Grizzly Labs.
| # | Company | iOS (est.) | Apps | Type | Top apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MWM | 300M+ | 83 | Apps | Beat Maker Pro · edjing Mix · Piano — Swipewipe · Color Pop |
| 2 | Elokence | 100M+ | 2 | Apps | Akinator · Akinator VIP |
| 3 | BeReal | 75M+ | 1 | Apps | BeReal |
| 4 | Luni | 75M+ | 37 | Apps | Scanner · Video Editor · Fitness Coach — Shorts · Heritale |
| 5 | Deezer | 75M+ | 2 | Service | Deezer |
| 6 | VideoLAN | 75M+ | 1 | Apps | VLC media player |
| 7 | Photoroom | 50M+ | 1 | Apps | Photoroom |
| 8 | BlaBlaCar | 50M+ | 1 | Service | BlaBlaCar |
| 9 | Yuka | 50M+ | 1 | Apps | Yuka |
| 10 | Sephora | 25M+ | 3 | Service | Sephora |
| 11 | happn | 25M+ | 1 | Apps | happn |
| 12 | The Grizzly Labs | 25M+ | 4 | Apps | Genius Scan · Genius Fax · Genius Sign |
| 13 | Doctolib | 25M+ | 1 | Service | Doctolib |
| 14 | Dailymotion | 25M+ | 1 | Apps | Dailymotion |
"Apps" means the app is the product, monetized in-app. "Service" means the app is the mobile channel of an off-store business — retail, transport, health — or a multi-platform subscription service. Both belong on a ranking of app companies; neither appears in the publisher rankings unless the company also publishes.
Games companies
In games, Voodoo leads France past 2.2 billion lifetime iOS installs, ahead of Ubisoft (875M+) and Gameloft (750M+). Eight French companies have passed 100 million lifetime iOS downloads in total — six of them here, two in the table above.
| # | Company | iOS (est.) | Apps | Top apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voodoo | 2,225M+ | 226 | Helix Jump · Hole.io · Paper.io 2 — Castle Busters · Mob Control |
| 2 | Ubisoft | 875M+ | 81 | 2048 · Hungry Shark Evolution · Hungry Shark World — Rainbow Six Mobile |
| 3 | Gameloft | 750M+ | 19 | Minion Rush · Asphalt 8 · Asphalt Legends — Gangstar Vegas |
| 4 | Homa Games | 200M+ | 59 | Sky Roller · Attack Hole · Aquarium Land — All in Hole |
| 5 | TapNation | 175M+ | 55 | Thief Puzzle · Ice Cream Inc. · Rope Rescue! — Bike Life! |
| 6 | Madbox | 100M+ | 9 | Stickman Hook · Pocket Champs · Parkour Race — Idle Ants |
| 7 | Green Panda Games | 75M+ | 14 | Sushi Bar Idle · Bee Factory! · Idle Construction 3D — Idle 9 Months |
| 8 | Pretty Simple | 50M+ | 9 | Criminal Case (franchise) — Sorcery School |
| 9 | Oh BiBi | 25M+ | 5 | SUP Multiplayer Racing · FRAG Pro Shooter · Motor World |
What the 2020 reading grid gets wrong
- Games and apps are two different races. France's volume giants are game companies — Voodoo, Ubisoft, Gameloft, Homa, TapNation — and every company in these rankings sits at 97%+ on one side of the games/apps line, which is why this page ranks them separately.
- A dense non-game wave has emerged. Older rankings list games plus one or two unicorn service apps. The 2026 reality: a portfolio operator running 83 iOS apps (MWM, 300M+ installs), a Voodoo-owned social network (BeReal, 75M+), and focused studios — Luni, Photoroom, The Grizzly Labs, Yuka — that older lists simply don't track.
- Several figures in circulation mix up their units. Widely-cited rankings credit MWM with ~300 million downloads — close to its iOS-only figure, but a third of the total: the company reported crossing one billion cumulative downloads across all stores in January 2026. Most game companies' totals have similarly doubled since those lists were written.
Methodology
Download estimates come from MWM Intelligence: estimated lifetime iOS App Store installs, shown as passed thresholds in 25-million steps. Companies below 25 million are not ranked, and French means headquartered in France.
This page ranks app companies rather than publishers, so service companies — whose app is the mobile channel of a business transacted elsewhere — are listed and labelled as such instead of being excluded.
Full methodology: how we rank app companies and publishers
Data as of August 2026. mwm.ai is operated by MWM; the same rules apply to every company listed, MWM included.