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Number of people working on iOS apps

Purpose of this list is to gather a source of information on how many people are working on iOS application.
I often wonder how many people are behind Facebook's app or Twitter's. If you're as curious as me, please share and please add apps 😉.

* - it's a rumoured value only. Needs confirmation from someone inside the company.

  1. Fishbrain - 3
  2. Artsy - 5
  3. Truecaller - 5
  4. Lifesum - 4 or 5
  5. Spotify - 50*
  6. Jodel - 3
  7. Working Copy - 1
  8. MindNode - 4
  9. Uber - over 200*
  • Driver
  • Rider
  • EATS
  1. PDF Viewer for iOS - 2
  2. Lyft - 20
@rolgalan
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Soundcloud, according this keynote (in Spanish) has 30 iOS developers. In the slides you can read ~20, but he says 30 (and growing up).
https://youtu.be/s1_UwtpOoJw?t=1m20s

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zbrox commented Mar 13, 2017

According to a Facebook engineer there were 429 engineers working on the iOS app in a single week. Which would imply the team is bigger than that.

https://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/

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