🆚 Chrome Web Store vs. Google Play
- 📈 Google Play is much more popular than Chrome Web Store.
- 🌍 Google Play is more popular in all countries.
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About
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.
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
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
- ⭐ 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.
- 🥇 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.


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