It's at 37 now.

No review for Topaz. Failure of a website smh

Got curious. Opened the apple ranking. Checked Granny Smith. Closed the apple ranking.

Utterly useless.

Why, did they make new worse apples?

These fuckers rate pink lady a 90 but give granny smith a 57 and lemonade apples a 63? Lost their fucking minds; pink lady are just decent and are only saved by their price point. Can't even compete with modern hit-or-miss honeycrisp. No way in fuck are they the third-best apple variety.

Yeah, no shit lemonade apples don't taste like you're drinking lemonade. That's a problem for like the first one you eat if you're really susceptible to marketing, after which you can just enjoy them for what they are: a solidly above-average apple with a unique background lemony flavor that are fun to mix in with other apples.

The granny smith, meanwhile, is a fantastic pie apple and a great sour apple, and most of the review is spent whining endlessly about slightly thick skin (literally good for you, arguably one of an apple's few advantages health-wise over other fruits) and dense flesh. This rating in particular is deranged.

Edit: Holy shit, they rated pink lady a 3.5/5 on tartness. In what universe?? In. What. Fucking. Universe. It's got practically zero tartness.

Also, complete double standards. Granny smith gets basically its entire review dedicated to denigrating dense flesh and thick skin, but pink lady with its thick skin and dense flesh is called "dense enough to hammer a nail" by its review, and yet these two factors are only treated as mediocre on the bar graph whereas granny smith got a fat fucking 0 for both. What a hypocritical load of shit.

I have never witnessed so much spite in a single review and I’m so here for it

What the fuck kind of pink ladies have you been eating (ooh err matron etc.)? They should be pretty tart, not the tartest apple in the world but 3.5/5 seems fair to me.

Lucy Glo my beloved is ranked quite well on the site. Used to bike to Pike Place every other weekend to grab some, always worth braving the crowds over. I miss them and Ranier cherries

What the fuck kind of pink ladies have you been eating

Ones that are very slightly tart, and given the tight licensure, I'm not willing to grant loose quality control like I do for honeycrisp for why they don't live up to this alleged true potential.

I'm too lazy to check the site but, I'm certain snapdragon apples are rated pretty highly. I love those apples.

I don't trust this person's palate.

(my favorite are jonagold)

I fucking love granny smith. Best apple ever.
Juicy, slightly sour, a touch tart, perfectly refreshing on a hot summer day.

I've always found pink lady to be weird. It's just so flavourless, the flesh consistency is like wet, gravelly sand, and it gets mushy so fast...

I love your dedication to Granny Smith, and I support you in your rant.

Given this gestures at everything, it's likely 😮‍💨

I've made a few recipes from the late 1700s, and they are mostly garbage loaded up with cloves. Cloves and nutmeg were a money flex back then, so many "fancy" things usually had them included. Like a mince and suet pie... Ugh.

77/100

They had nice things to say about it

Hey, thanks for looking that up for me. I'm glad it got over a 70 its my go-to apple.

And Fuji were “Horse Food” and are now “Barely worth it”! Totally do not agree with their palate, love their dedication and sharpness!

If an apple makes it to the store shelf, it's a good apple. I eat whichever one is cheapest. At the moment where I shop, that's Gala. But, I also eat Red delicious and Granny Smith. I'm not paying two or three times as much for an apple that's different. Different isn't better, it's just different. Higher price doesn't mean better product, just better marketing, and maybe "new!", which is just different again.

The fact that rankings of food are so contested and almost no one agrees, is proof positive that I'm right, here. One isn't better than the other, just different. No one is wrong for liking what they like. Judging another's taste harshly, especially in food is silly and wrong. But, also in music, and clothing, and any other aesthetic appeal.

(I know I can't say "an apple is an apple and all apples are good" because of how apples are cultivated. But, if a variety has passed the taste test with growers to the point that they get produced in mass quantities, then it's a good apple.)

The fact that rankings of food are so contested and almost no one agrees, is proof positive that I’m right, here.

No.

if a variety has passed the taste test with growers to the point that they get produced in mass quantities, then it's a good apple.

What if the growers aren’t optimizing for taste, but for the ability to ship them half way across the world and still look presentable?

Best apple in current meta is the SweeTango but I'm never changing from my of Red Delicious main

https://applerankings.com/sweetango-apple-review/

Ew, red delicious

Nice to see that Kanzi is ranked so highly. It is the best available apple in german stores.

But, I also eat Red delicious

I support your point about letting people like what they like, but I've never had a red delicious that doesn't taste like cardboard.

Also if you're not really into sweeter things in general, the apple that fits that palate is probably either fuji or mac.

The most disappointing apple I’ve ever had was an Arkansas black (or might’ve been Alabama black). Cosmetically it’s a gorgeous apple. Nice and round and a deep shade a red, like what you’d expect to see used as a prop in a Snow White production. But when you bite into it it’s a sandy, mealy disgrace.

Sweet Tango is my number one even before looking at the site. Kiku would be my second. I couldn't give Red Delicious a numerical score without finding out how many apples in the world there are and then it would be that -1.

The Budweiser of apples.

Rated despicable

I'd steal a fuji apple. I would use other apples as a throwing weapon

Fun site, but ranking Pink Lady higher than Braeburn should be considered a mental disorder.

Came here for the apple love. Stayed for the absolute hate and vitriol.

I've never been able eat anything other than a red delicious because that and granny Smith (which goes in pies), are the only varieties available to me. ;(

Eating pigeon pie and squirrel isn't about the food. Especially squirrel, fuck those shit's. They did a few hundred in damages to my mango trees. Why am I upset? because the shit's would knock em off the tree, take a couple bites and leave them for me to clean up. I wouldn't care if they ate it all. They really are pests.

So maybe the apple pie, was the cherry on top of eating the squirrel. Not for the taste, but for the spite.

I too, am a fan of the granny

Your country only has 2 apples, and one is red delicious? Do you live in Hades, with Tantalus perhaps?

Pink lady is my favorite. Pretty darn tart, I would say.

A sand filled used condom or a new one? That makes a big difference in taste.

I checked out the website and found it hilarious, but apparently everyone else on here wants to fucking kill them.

AI could never

I love the apple rankings site but remain ever a Honeycrisp ho. I never liked apples until one day I was pregnant and hungry and at Target they had out samples of apple - out of desperation I grabbed one and holy crap, it was everything an apple should be, nothing like anything I'd had before, and I worked at a natural foods store, we got the pink lady and cripps and gala, it's not like I had not tried to like apples.

It will ever be the Honeycrisp, the platonic ideal. Perfectly sweet, perfectly tart, and can be cooked in pies and taste good. I don't need any other apple. My coworker prefers the Cosmic Crisp but I don't.

Tech. What's really bothering you isn't the opinion content, is it? It's the editorial sloppiness of the place. The applerankings world needs you.

It’s like a flavorless Macintosh

Oh yay, I get to address my two favorite common misconceptions about the colonial US at once.

There is an element of truth in the assertion that Ben Franklin owned slaves, but it's mostly untrue. He participated in what he was taught to do from an early age, but seeing the effects of slavery first hand changed his mind. He spent the rest of his life as one of that era's most outspoken critics against slavery, even purchasing a printing press to print anti-slavery brochures and pamphlets.

https://benjaminfranklinhouse.org/education/benjamin-franklin-and-slavery/

George Washington's wooden teeth are a myth. Wood teeth certainly existed, but were extremely uncommon and only used by people who had nothing else. Most commonly, dentures of that era were made from ivory, animal teeth, or cadaver teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_teeth

The total fucking worst.

In May of 1784, Washington paid several unnamed slaves 122 shillings (£6.10, equivalent to $195 in 2025) for a total of nine teeth to be implanted by a French doctor, who became a frequent guest on the plantation over the next few years.

your list is missing a fourth category

Also no review for:

• Elstar
• Boskoop
• Wellant
• Holsteiner Cox
• Ingrid Marie

Granny Smith is the AI-Art of Apples. Looks too much like an apple, tastes just almost like an apple, some people love it, but must of us know it’s bland, boring an uninspired.

I was gonna say, Fuji are incredible, homie has a weird palette for sure. Best I've had out of the 20 or so I've tried

Elstar used to be my favorite until i found topaz. Boskoop is really nice for baking.