🆚 F-Droid vs. Google Play
- 📈 Google Play is much more popular than F-Droid.
- 🌍 Google Play is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ F-Droid is particularly popular in Germany.
F-Droid
Google PlayType
About
F-Droid is an independent, community-maintained app store for Android that distributes only free and open-source applications with an emphasis on transparency and user privacy.
It builds apps from publicly available source code using a fully automated infrastructure, flags "anti-features" such as tracking or proprietary dependencies, and maintains a curated repository catalog with detailed metadata and version histories.
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
- 🥇 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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Google 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.