🆚 App Store vs. Microsoft Store
- 📈 App Store is much more popular than Microsoft Store.
- 🌍 App Store is more popular in all countries.
App Store
Microsoft 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.
Microsoft Store is a digital distribution platform for 
Windows that serves as a centralized location to discover, download, and install apps and software on PCs.
It provides a curated catalog with search and category browsing, automatic updates, ratings and reviews, integrated payments and subscriptions, developer distribution tools, and built-in security checks that verify apps before publication.
Headquarters
Pricing
(up to $1 million in proceeds)15%
(Microsoft commerce platform)
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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France 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
Chrome Web Store
Firefox Add-ons
Snapcraft
Opera Add-ons🗃️ 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.