🆚 Google Play vs. Microsoft Store
- 📈 Google Play is much more popular than Microsoft Store.
- 🌍 Google Play is more popular in all countries.
Google Play
Microsoft StoreType
About
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.
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
first $1M USD of annual earnings15%
(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 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.
- ⭐ 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.
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Huawei AppGallery
RuStore
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F-Droid
Chrome Web Store
Firefox Add-ons
Snapcraft
Opera Add-ons
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 3,525,227 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.