🆚 App Store vs. Google Play
- 📈 Google Play is as popular as App Store.
- 🌎 Google Play is more popular in India, France, and Brazil.
- 🌎 App Store is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
App Store
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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.
Google Play is a digital distribution service and official app store for Android operated by Google, providing access to apps, games, and other digital content across supported devices such as phones, tablets, TVs, and wearables.
It includes a catalog with device compatibility filtering, automatic app updates, payment processing and subscriptions, developer publishing tools, and a built-in security service, Google Play Protect, which scans for malware and prevents the installation of harmful apps.
Headquarters
Pricing
(up to $1 million in proceeds)15%
first $1M USD of annual earnings15%
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 India in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bangladesh in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Nigeria in the Apps category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Nepal 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.
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- 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.