Today, Apple launched a countdown on its website for 25 billion iOS app downloads from the App Store. At the time of writing, the countdown is at 24, 310, 616 apps downloaded. The person who downloads the twenty-fifth billion app will receive a $10,000 App Store gift card courtesy of Apple. Users can also enter the contest by filling in a submission form.

As of today, nearly 25 billion apps have been downloaded worldwide. Which is almost as amazing as the apps themselves. So we want to say thanks. Download the 25 billionth app, and you could win a US$10,000 App Store Gift Card.* Just visit the App Store and download your best app yet.

Apple ran similar countdowns for the 10 billion App Store downloads milestone just over one year ago, as well as a countdown to 10 billion songs being downloaded from the iTunes Store in February of 2010.