CNBC February 21, 2025
Key Points
– The number of new Vision Pro apps have declined in every month since the device went on sale, according to consultancy AppFigures.
– Many of the new apps and ideas for the Vision Pro are coming from independent developers, hacking on the weekends while holding down day jobs.
– Apple in August said the Vision Pro had 2,500 apps. By AppFigures’ count, fewer than 1,900 remain active.
When Apple revealed the Vision Pro in 2023, it called the $3,500 headset its next “major platform.” Two years later, and a year after going on sale, the device is thin on apps.
Apple doesn’t regularly release stats on the number of Vision Pro apps that are available,...