Who knew Spin The Bottle and Fridge Magnets were so popular?
Finnish developer Offscreen Technologies' apps and games have been downloaded more than 25 million times from Nokia's Ovi Store.
It's the biggest milestone yet for a developer on Nokia's store, although as with previous announcements of this nature, the figure hasn't been broken down into free and paid downloads.
Offscreen describes itself as "the leading S60 Touch application developer", and has released a large number of games, entertainment and productivity apps, and e-books for Nokia's touchscreen handsets.
They include Labyrinth Touch, Spin The Bottle Touch, Fridge Magnets Touch and Currencies Touch (a full list can be found here).
"By distributing our apps through Ovi Store by Nokia, Offscreen Technologies is able to further extend the popularity of our titles to Nokia users around the world," says CEO Harri Myllynen.
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Meanwhile, Nokia's VP and global head of media Marco Argenti says the milestone proves that "Nokia device owners have a huge appetite for highly visual content they can quickly download and use repeatedly."
Other developers notching up seven-figure download totals on Ovi Store include Shazam and Polarbit, who have both passed one million downloads, and games firm Digital Chocolate, which has passed four million downloads.
Nokia says daily downloads are running at 1.6 million on the store, although this includes ringtones and wallpapers as well as apps.
However, the question with all these milestone announcements - and this holds true for all app stores, not just Nokia's - is how they split between paid and free apps, what sort of conversion rates developers are getting from free to paid, and what kind of advertising rates are being secured.
Or, in short: how much actual money is being made? Download totals are a strong sign of an app store's scale and reach, but developers are just as keen to understand how this translates into cold, hard cash.
Offscreen's milestone is significant for another reason though: it matches the 25 million install base for iPhone developer Tapulous - which as far as we're aware is the biggest announced number of downloads for an iPhone firm.




















