Apple says more than 1 million apps are available for Apple Vision Pro. By Apple’s own count, fewer than 3,000 of them were actually built for visionOS. The rest reach Vision Pro through compatibility with iPad and iPhone apps, not through native development for the headset.
Apple published both figures together in its October 15, 2025 release announcing the M5 chip update: “over 1 million apps available for Apple Vision Pro, including more than 3,000 apps built for visionOS.” That single sentence is the most recent app-ecosystem figure Apple has given for the product.
Key facts
| Figure | What Apple says |
|---|---|
| Total apps available on Vision Pro | Over 1,000,000 |
| Apps built specifically for visionOS | More than 3,000 |
| Share built specifically for visionOS | Under 0.3 percent, by Apple’s own numbers |
| Published | October 15, 2025, Apple Newsroom |
What the two numbers actually measure
The “over 1 million” figure counts everything Vision Pro can run, which includes the large catalog of existing iPad and iPhone apps that work on the headset through compatibility rather than through a visionOS-specific build. The “more than 3,000” figure is narrower: it counts only apps developers built and submitted specifically for visionOS, Apple’s operating system for Vision Pro.
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Apple’s release does not break the larger figure down further. It does not say how many of the over 1 million are iPad apps versus iPhone apps, and it does not say how many of those actually launch and run well on Vision Pro’s display versus simply being technically compatible. The only precise, named figure for purpose-built software is the more-than-3,000 count. Apple’s own phrase for that group is simply “apps built for visionOS,” without further definition, so this article treats the figure as Apple states it rather than reading anything additional into it.
Why the ratio is worth noticing
Fewer than 3 in every 1,000 apps available on Vision Pro, by Apple’s own arithmetic, were built for the platform Vision Pro actually runs. That is a simple, checkable calculation from numbers Apple published itself, not an outside estimate. It does not, on its own, say whether any given app works well on the headset. It says only how much of the catalog was purpose-built versus carried over.
What is published, and what is not
| Published | Not published |
|---|---|
| Total app count, over 1,000,000 | An updated 2026 figure |
| Native visionOS app count, more than 3,000 | A category breakdown of those apps |
| Both figures as of October 15, 2025 | How many of the 3,000-plus have been updated since |
| No newer figure has replaced these two | Any visionOS-specific developer incentive announced since May 19, 2026 |
Where this fits in Vision Pro’s year
Apple gave this app count in the same release that introduced the M5 chip, its last Vision Pro hardware announcement. Apple has not repeated or updated the figure since, in either direction, and it has not been part of any of the handful of Vision Pro items Apple’s newsroom has published in 2026. It stands as Apple’s most recent word on the size of the visionOS app catalog specifically, rather than the much larger number of apps Vision Pro can merely run.
What Apple has not said
Apple has not published an updated app count since October 2025, has not broken the more-than-3,000 visionOS figure down by category, and has not said how many of those apps have been updated for the current visionOS version. It has not stated a target for visionOS-native app growth, and it has not addressed the gap between the two figures directly at all. Apple has also not said whether it considers 3,000 native apps a strong showing for the platform, leaving readers with the raw count published in October 2025 and nothing more recent to compare it against.
As of September 12, 2026, Apple’s app-store pages for Vision Pro have not published a newer total. The figures sit alongside a week dominated by iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders and iPhone Duo‘s October debut, both detailed in Apple’s September 9 event recap, with iOS 27 arriving Monday, September 14.
