About Best App Rankings

App rankings, scored and sorted.

What We Do

Best App Rankings is an independent app-ranking publication. We score apps across eight categories — calorie tracking, nutrition, fitness, sleep, AI, wellness, productivity, and finance — on a single published 100-point rubric. The rubric is fixed across categories so that scores remain comparable, and the methodology is published in full at /en/methodology/.

We do not write "10 best apps" listicles. We publish leaderboards. Every leaderboard ranks a fixed set of apps from #1 down, with the BAR Score visible on every entry, the underlying weights traceable to the rubric, and the re-test cadence published. Top-3 apps on any active leaderboard are re-tested quarterly.

What We Don't Do

We do not take affiliate compensation in exchange for placement, ranking, or favorable framing. We do not currently maintain affiliate accounts with any of the apps reviewed on the site. None of our editorial team members hold equity, advisory roles, or paid relationships with any of the apps on a BAR leaderboard.

If we adopt affiliate links in the future for a subset of apps, we will disclose it in real time on the relevant page and in our footer. We will not silently switch revenue models.

Editorial Team

Best App Rankings is run by a small editorial team:

• Quincy Halverson, MS — Lead Methodologist. Designs and maintains the BAR Score rubric. Former Consumer Reports product testing methodologist; MS Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech.
• Tamsin Achebe-Kowalski, RD, MS — Senior Reviewer. Leads the calorie, nutrition, and wellness categories. Registered Dietitian; MS Nutritional Sciences, NYU.
• Dr. Beauregard Iwasaki-Trent, MD — Medical Reviewer. Reviews any leaderboard, review, or comparison that touches clinical territory. Family medicine; MD Stanford.

How We Differ from App Store Ratings

App Store star ratings score user satisfaction, which is a different question than scoring accuracy and feature parity. A 4.8-star app with poor accuracy and a 4.2-star app with best-in-class accuracy are scored identically by the App Store. BAR Scores both apps against a fixed published rubric, blind to App Store volume, and re-tests quarterly.

Contact

For editorial questions, methodology discussion, or correction requests, email editor@bestapprankings.com. See also our contact page.