🆚 Galaxy Store vs. Google Play

Type

App platform
App platform

About

The Galaxy Store is a preinstalled app store for Samsung Galaxy devices that allows users to download apps and device-specific content across phones, tablets, and wearables.

It offers a curated marketplace with apps, games, themes, fonts, stickers, and watch faces, includes AI-based personalized recommendations, exclusive Galaxy-only content and promotions, and an integrated payment and coupon system.

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

Seoul, Korea
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

For usersFree ✔️
For developers
Service fee
Paid games, apps, and in-app items 20%
Subscriptions15%
For usersFree ✔️
For developers
Developer registration fee$25
Service fee
Developers enrolled in the 15% service fee tier
first $1M USD of annual earnings
15%
Standard30%
Subscriptions15%

Categories

Apps › Rank #10
Apps › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Play app platform is 982 times more popular than Galaxy Store.
Total websites

Market share

Apps

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Play is more popular than Galaxy Store in all countries.
United States
India
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Brazil
Russia
Japan
Spain
Turkey

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Play is more popular than Galaxy Store in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
General News
Finance/Banking
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#6,999
#7,279
#11,586
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See also

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