Paid-Validated App Niche Index — Apps Proving Willingness-to-Pay

What you get

• S — Top 250 paid-validated apps by validation score
• M — Full index: every paid-validated app + category summaries (2,101 rows)
• L — Full index + in-app-purchase activity signals (2,243 rows)
• Data dictionary, datasheet and license in every package

Coverage statistics

Records

2,243

Largest package

400 KB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required) — commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required) — commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com)

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 3 packages, 864 KB total , 4,622 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/paid-validated-app-niche-index --repo-type dataset --local-dir paid-validated-app-niche-index

# Or just one archive
hf download zalizedata/paid-validated-app-niche-index archive/archive/paid-app-opportunities-tier1-L-2026-08-02.zip --repo-type dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Computed from the DataForge appstore pipeline's real collection run (rankings, prices, review volumes).
• Validation score methodology is documented in the package datasheet.

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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