App store statistics
How many apps and games are on Google Play and the App Store, what they cost, how they are rated, how often they are updated and who publishes them. Counted from live store listings and refreshed every day.
- Games
- 507K
- Paid
- 2.5%
- Publishers
- 1.2M
- Games
- 155K
- Paid
- 6.1%
- Publishers
- 686K
Google Play and the App Store at a glance
The headline numbers for both stores. Live means the app is listed on the store today.
Side by side
Counts of live apps unless the row says otherwise
| Metric | Google Play | App Store |
|---|---|---|
| Apps live on the store | 3,736,786 | 1,437,399 |
| Games | 507,06514% | 155,26711% |
| Paid apps | 94,2442.5% | 87,0636.1% |
| Median price of a paid app | $1.99 | $2.99 |
| Publishers with a live app | 1,242,644 | 685,854 |
| Apps per publisher | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| Apps with a public rating | 471,56313% | 642,59245% |
| Average rating of rated apps | 4.07 | 4.14 |
| Apps past 1 billion installs | 182 | Not published |
| New apps found in the last 30 days | 118,040 | 10,401partial |
| Removed apps on record | 1,918,838 | 723,516 |
Partial means App Store discovery of brand-new apps still runs behind Google Play, so the true number is higher. Apple does not publish install counts.
Apps, games and prices
Games are a minority on both stores, and nearly every app is free to download. Most free apps earn from ads, in-app purchases or both.
Apps and games
Share of live apps that are games
- Apps86%3,229,721
- Games14%507,065
- Apps89%1,282,132
- Games11%155,267
Google Play files every game under a game category. On the App Store, games are apps whose primary category is Games. See the top games charts
Free and paid
Paid means a price to download, in US dollars
- Free97%3,642,542
- Paid2.5%94,244
- Free94%1,350,336
- Paid6.1%87,063
The median paid app costs $1.99 on Google Play and $2.99 on the App Store.
Price points of paid apps
Share of each store's paid apps
- Google Play
- App Store
- Under $128%29%
- $1 to $1.9927%18%
- $2 to $2.9912%13%
- $3 to $4.9914%18%
- $5 to $9.9911%13%
- $10 to $19.994%5.1%
- $20 and up3.4%3.8%
How Google Play apps make money
Business model declared on the store listing
- Ads only21%791,224
- In-app purchases only5.3%198,665
- Ads and in-app purchases6.5%243,496
- Paid to download2.5%94,244
- Nothing declared64%2,409,157
Google Play shows Contains ads and In-app purchases labels on listings. Older listings may not carry them, so Nothing declared also holds apps whose model is unknown.
The biggest categories
Live apps per primary category. Open a category for its top apps, publishers and growth.
Google Play
Top 12 categories by live apps, with the share that is paid
App Store
Top 12 categories by live apps, with the share that is paid
Ratings
Most apps never collect enough ratings for the store to show a score. Among those that do, App Store apps lean higher.
Star ratings
Apps with a public rating, as a share of each store
- Google Play
- App Store
- 4.5 stars and up35%56%
- 4 to 4.5 stars30%17%
- 3 to 4 stars26%15%
- 2 to 3 stars7.4%6.4%
- Under 2 stars1.9%6.8%
13% of live Google Play apps and 45% of App Store apps have a public rating. The average rated app scores 4.07 on Google Play and 4.14 on the App Store.
Content ratings
The age rating on the listing
- Everyone90%
- Teen6%
- Mature 17+2.3%
- Everyone 10+1.3%
- Adults only 18+under 0.1%
- 4+75%
- 17+14%
- 12+7.9%
- 9+2.6%
Installs on Google Play
Google Play publishes install counts, so we can show how installs spread across the whole store. A few thousand apps take most of the installs. Apple does not publish downloads.
Live apps by lifetime installs
Exact counts where Google Play shows them, the published range otherwise
- Under 1001,660,491 apps
- 100 to 1K884,711 apps
- 1K to 10K616,433 apps
- 10K to 100K352,243 apps
- 100K to 1M154,169 apps
- 1M to 10M54,477 apps
- 10M to 100M12,744 apps
- 100M to 1B1,336 apps
- 1B and more182 apps
New apps
How many apps are released over time. Counts include apps that were later removed, so every launch we have seen is counted.
New Google Play apps per month
By release date, 31,185 so far this month
Apps by year of first release
Every app we have tracked. So far in 2026, 940,376 on Google Play.
- Google Play
- App Store
Recent months keep growing as our crawlers find more new apps. Monthly App Store counts are not shown because App Store discovery of brand-new apps runs behind Google Play. Browse the newest apps
How recently apps were updated
An app that has not been updated for years is often abandoned. Most live apps were updated in the last year, but a long tail has not changed in five years or more.
Time since the last update
Share of live apps with a known update date
- Google Play
- App Store
- In the last 30 days5.7%3.7%
- 1 to 6 months ago11%14%
- 6 to 12 months ago42%35%
- 1 to 2 years ago22%16%
- 2 to 5 years ago14%17%
- Over 5 years ago5.6%13%
Languages, iOS versions and app size
The App Store lists every language an app supports, the oldest iOS it runs on and its size, so these figures cover every live App Store app.
Languages supported
Share of live App Store apps
- English93%
- Chinese24%
- Spanish16%
- French16%
- German15%
- Japanese12%
- Portuguese11%
- Italian11%
- Russian9.8%
- Korean8.6%
- Dutch7%
- Turkish6.7%
Minimum iOS version
The oldest iOS version an app still runs on
- iOS 11 or earlier21%
- iOS 1212%
- iOS 1317%
- iOS 147.1%
- iOS 1525%
- iOS 167.5%
- iOS 176%
- iOS 182.9%
- iOS 26 or later1.4%
App size
Package size listed on the App Store
- Under 10 MB11%
- 10 to 50 MB39%
- 50 to 100 MB27%
- 100 to 250 MB17%
- 250 to 500 MB3.7%
- 500 MB to 1 GB0.9%
- Over 1 GB0.4%
The biggest publishers
Ranked by live apps on each store, and by the combined lifetime installs of their apps on Google Play. Publishers that build branded apps for many clients often lead the count.
Most live apps on Google Play
Apps listed on the store today
- 1TRAINERIZE9,518 apps
- 2ChowNow5,673 apps
- 3Acessórias5,458 apps
- 4CBA-Pro15,413 apps
- 5Apptegy Play Store5,387 apps
- 6cba-pro25,379 apps
- 7Phorest5,179 apps
- 8Flipdish4,761 apps
- 9Owner.com3,876 apps
- 10Sitedish3,697 apps
Most live apps on the App Store
Apps listed on the store today
- 1Лаборатория Икс1,158 apps
- 2ChowNow864 apps
- 3Phorest822 apps
- 4Sutra Fitness, Inc.763 apps
- 5ORDER LLC739 apps
- 6CDNTV Tecnologia LTDA675 apps
- 7Momence, Inc.644 apps
- 8hao du631 apps
- 9Magzter Inc.631 apps
- 10OFFLINE MAP TRIP GUIDE LTD564 apps
Most installs on Google Play
Combined lifetime installs of all their apps
- 1Google LLC516B
- 2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.74.2B
- 3Meta Platforms, Inc.35B
- 4Microsoft Corporation28.4B
- 5Netflix, Inc.23.4B
- 6Xiaomi Inc.15.8B
- 7WhatsApp LLC15.1B
- 8Motorola Mobility LLC.14.7B
- 9ColorOS13.1B
- 10HeyTap10.8B
Where developers are based and what they build with
Publisher locations come from the address on store listings. SDKs are read from the app packages themselves.
Publishers by country
Publishers with a live app and a listed address, on both stores
- United States176K publishers
- India103K publishers
- United Kingdom48.8K publishers
- Brazil47.8K publishers
- Germany41.5K publishers
- France26.9K publishers
- Japan24.7K publishers
- South Korea24.6K publishers
- Indonesia19.8K publishers
- Canada19.5K publishers
- Spain18.9K publishers
- Italy17.9K publishers
- Australia16.6K publishers
- China15.6K publishers
- Pakistan14.7K publishers
Most used SDKs
Share of the 283K apps with SDK data
- Android Jetpack core96%
- Android Architecture Components83%
- Firebase74%
- Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable72%
- Android Jetpack Annotations64%
- Android Jetpack Widgets63%
- Android Jetpack AppCompat58%
- Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)55%
- AndroidX Activity53%
- Android Activity Saved State52%
- Android Jetpack Media50%
- AndroidX Loader48%
- AdMob47%
- Android Transition Support Library45%
- Android Support Library collections43%
Questions and answers
How many apps are on Google Play?
About 3.74M apps are live on Google Play by the AppMetis count (3,736,786 on 2026-11-14). 507,065 of them are games and 2.5% are paid.
How many apps are on the App Store?
About 1.44M apps are live on the Apple App Store by the AppMetis count (1,437,399 on 2026-11-14). 155,267 of them are games and 6.1% are paid.
Which store has more apps, Google Play or the App Store?
Google Play has more. It lists about 2.6 times as many live apps as the App Store, 3.74M against 1.44M. It also has more publishers, 1.24M against 686K.
What share of apps are free?
97% of live Google Play apps and 94% of live App Store apps are free to download. The median paid app costs $1.99 on Google Play and $2.99 on the App Store.
What is the most common app category?
Education is the biggest category on Google Play with 386,395 live apps. On the App Store it is Games with 155,267 live apps.
How many apps have more than 1 billion installs?
182 Google Play apps have passed 1 billion lifetime installs, and 68,739 have passed 1 million. Apple does not publish download counts, so there is no equivalent App Store figure.
How many new apps are released every day?
About 3,900 new Google Play apps appeared every day over the last 30 days, 118,040 in total, counting the new apps AppMetis has found so far.
How often are apps updated?
53% of live App Store apps were updated in the last year, and 31% have not been updated for more than two years. On Google Play the figures are 58% and 20% of apps with a known update date.
Which countries have the most app developers?
United States leads with 176,109 publishers that list an address, followed by India with 102,828 and United Kingdom with 48,764.
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