🆚 Microsoft Store vs. Snapcraft
- 📈 Microsoft Store is much more popular than Snapcraft.
- 🌍 Microsoft Store is more popular in all countries.
Microsoft Store
SnapcraftType
About
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.
Snapcraft is a packaging system and application store ecosystem for 
Linux that enables building, distributing, and installing software as Snap packages on different Linux systems.
Snap packages are self-contained application bundles that include all dependencies, run in sandboxed environments, support automatic background updates with rollback to previous versions, and are managed locally by the snapd service.
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
- ⭐ 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
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Canonical 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.