Most popular iPhone and iPad apps

Ever wondered which applications are the most popular on Apple's App Store? Well, here is a list of the most downloaded paid and free iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store, according to Apple.

Top Paid iPhone Apps
1. Words With Friends (Zynga)
2. Angry Birds (Clickgamer.com)
3. Fruit Ninja (Halfbrick Studios)
4. Camera+  (tap tap tap)
5. Where’s My Water? (Disney)
6. Cut the Rope (Chillingo Ltd)
7. Dot Lock Secure — Protect your Media & Files (BAI)
8. Pimp Your Screen — Your Device Never Looked Cooler (Apalon)
9. Color Texting for iMessages (Apps4Life)
10. Tiny Wings, Andreas  (Illiger)

Top Free iPhone Apps 
1. Temple Run (Imangi Studios, LLC)
2. Angry Gran (AceViral.com)
3. Snappers (Mikhail Eliseev)
4. Zombie Farm (The Playforge, LLC)
5. Life is Crime (Red Robot Labs Inc.)
6. Doodle Sprint! (Wivvu)
7. Egg Punch (Pixel Juice)
8. Bejeweled Blitz (PopCap)
9. Social Girl (Crowdstar Inc)
10. Tap Fish 2 (Gameview Studios)

Top Paid iPad Apps 
1. Where’s My Water? (Disney)
2. Words With Friends HD (Zynga)
3. Notability — handwriting, note taking, audio recording, annotate PDFs, cloud sync your notes to Dropbox, and more (Ginger Labs)
4. Angry Birds HD (Chillingo Ltd)
5. Pages (Apple)
6. Living Earth HD — World Clock and Weather (Moshen Chan)
7. Fruit Ninja HD (Halfbrick Studios)
8. Run Roo Run HD (5TH Cell)
9. Penultimate (Cocoa Box Design LLC)
10. Angry Birds Seasons HD (Rovio Mobile Ltd.)

Top Free iPad Apps 
1. Temple Run (Imangi Studios, LLC)
2. Bejeweled Blitz (PopCap)
3. OnLive Desktop (OnLive, Inc.)
4. CloudOn (CloudOn, Inc.)
5. Skype for iPad (Skype Software S.a.r.l)
6. iBooks (Apple)
7. Kindle — Read Books, Magazines & More — Over 1 Million eBooks & Newspapers (AMZN Mobile LLC)
8. The Weather Channel for iPad (The Weather Channel Interactive)
9. Words With Friends HD Free (Zynga)
10. Netflix (Netflix, Inc.)


For the week ending Jan. 16, 2012; photos courtesy of apple.com.