Provider Rankings news and trends

Synchrony Rides Walmart Alliance to No. 1 in Credit Card Apps

October 21, 2025
ASICS Outruns Rivals With Summer Fitness App Surge
Fitness // September 22, 2025

Now that summer’s officially over we thought it would be a good time to check the fitness app rankings to see what companies did well while consumers were getting beach ready or looking to lose the extra five pounds from vacation. Turns out it was...

SoFi Bets on Crypto to Cement Its Digital Finance App Lead
Mobile // September 01, 2025

Digital banking. The phrase means different things to different consumers, but for the PYMNTS app provider rankings, digital banking includes the apps that enable them to plan, spend and track their money within the same ecosystem. You would expect SoFi’s page to do well here,...

Crypto Momentum Reshuffles PYMNTS Finance Apps Ranks
Mobile // August 11, 2025

With so many companies reporting earnings over the last two weeks — including the new entry, Chime — we thought it would be a good time to take a look at the category of personal finance in our app provider rankings. And it’s a good...

Forever 21 Jumps in PYMNTS App Ranking on Heavy Discounts
Retail // July 30, 2025

Never underestimate the power of deep discounting. That’s the takeaway from PYMNTS’ latest Shopping Apps Provider Ranking. As parents and students prepare for back-to-school shopping, the app that gained the most points in June is a retailer that closed all its stores in May but...

Interviews & Exclusives
Synchrony Rides Walmart Alliance to No. 1 in Credit Card Apps

October 21, 2025
What a difference Walmart makes. That’s one of the takeaways from our focus for this week’s app provider rankings: Credit card apps. MySynchrony led our most recent sweep of data on app usage and found that its recent enhanced relationship with Walmart could have been the driving factor behind a four-point gain for 55 total […]

ASICS Outruns Rivals With Summer Fitness App Surge

September 22, 2025
Now that summer’s officially over we thought it would be a good time to check the fitness app rankings to see what companies did well while consumers were getting beach...

SoFi Bets on Crypto to Cement Its Digital Finance App Lead

September 01, 2025
Digital banking. The phrase means different things to different consumers, but for the PYMNTS app provider rankings, digital banking includes the apps that enable them to plan, spend and track...

Crypto Momentum Reshuffles PYMNTS Finance Apps Ranks

August 11, 2025
With so many companies reporting earnings over the last two weeks — including the new entry, Chime — we thought it would be a good time to take a look...

Quick Reads
Sweatcoin Walks Over Competition in Fitness App Rankings

November 15, 2022
This edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Fitness app brings to light eleven contenders ready to sweat it to the top. Our top contender is unswayable from No.1. There’s a lot to compete for but only one tie in this edition. With a gap of 46 points from top to bottom, other highlights include some […]

New Shopping App Provider Ranking Shows Big Changes in Just One Month

March 18, 2022
There’s an old song — ancient, really — that croons, “What a difference a day makes.” As applied to PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps, it’s a month, not a...

Payroll App Provider Ranking Top 10 Pays a Dividend by Ranking 11 Apps

March 04, 2022
We’re all just trying to get paid. So make it easy. Oh. They have? How thoughtful. This is the PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Payroll Apps, after all. It wouldn’t exist...

Rx Apps Ranked For Curing The High Cost Of Prescriptions

December 22, 2020
Anyone else feel like they could use an aspirin? Fortunately, we live in the age of smartphone apps that will find you that remedy at discounted prices. Big names in...