🆚 Chrome Web Store vs. Microsoft Store
- 📈 Chrome Web Store is four times more popular than Microsoft Store.
- 🌎 Chrome Web Store is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 Microsoft Store is more popular in the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, and Kuwait.
Chrome Web Store
Microsoft StoreType
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.
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
(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
- ⭐ 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 India in the Apps category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan 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.
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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.