🆚 App Store vs. F-Droid
- 📈 App Store is much more popular than F-Droid.
- 🌍 App Store is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ F-Droid is particularly popular in Germany.
App Store
F-DroidType
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.
F-Droid is an independent, community-maintained app store for Android that distributes only free and open-source applications with an emphasis on transparency and user privacy.
It builds apps from publicly available source code using a fully automated infrastructure, flags "anti-features" such as tracking or proprietary dependencies, and maintains a curated repository catalog with detailed metadata and version histories.
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.
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.
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Huawei AppGallery
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Galaxy Store🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.