🆚 App Store vs. Facebook Apps
- 📈 App Store is slightly more popular than Facebook Apps.
- 🌎 App Store is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 Facebook Apps are more popular in Japan, Brazil, and Vietnam.
App 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.
Facebook Apps are third-party software applications that integrate with 
Facebook and use its APIs to access data and interact with its social features.
They connect through the Graph API to read and write data such as profiles, posts, pages, and ads, support authentication via Facebook Login for single sign-on, enable content sharing and publishing, automate marketing and messaging workflows, and operate under a permission-based model with user consent.
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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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mongolia in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Faroe Islands 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
Progressive Web App
Chrome Web Store
Microsoft Store
Meta 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.