🆚 App Store vs. Chrome Web Store
- 📈 App Store is much more popular than Chrome Web Store.
- 🌎 App Store is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Chrome Web Store is more popular in Palau.
App Store
Chrome Web StoreType
About
Apple App Store is a digital distribution platform that allows users to download and purchase apps and digital content for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and other Apple devices.
It provides a curated marketplace with nearly 2 million apps reviewed for quality and security, supports global distribution in over 175 regions, includes integrated payments and subscriptions, personalized recommendations, and family sharing.
The Chrome Web Store is a digital marketplace operated by Google that allows users to discover and install extensions and themes for the Chrome web browser.
It provides categorized browsing, search and recommendations, user ratings and reviews, and automatic updates for installed extensions.
Headquarters
Pricing
(up to $1 million in proceeds)15%
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Kuwait in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Qatar in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bahrain in the Apps category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in China in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Apps category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Google Play
Huawei AppGallery
RuStore
Galaxy Store
F-Droid
Microsoft Store
Firefox Add-ons
Microsoft Edge Add-ons
Snapcraft
Opera Add-ons
Google company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,525,227 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.