One with Special interest in mobile apps, I have been tracking Apps on Google play for a year now.
I've tracked close to 1.7 million apps on Google Play Store. As of 14th Sept'2015. There were 17,00,835 apps on the Play store which my crawler could find.
There may be some more newly launched apps which don't show up in Search or Similar Apps Section on Google Play. It's hard to find these as crawler couldn't trace these easily. So total apps launched on Google play may be around 1.75 millions.
1.42 million apps are live now while 280K apps have been removed by Google from Play Store for some reason!
82% of the live Apps have less than 10,000 downloads.
About 1% of total apps have more than 1 million downloads!
This is where everyone wants to be :)
As per AppBrain (17th Sept 2015) there are close to 1.7 million apps on Play Store. So I'm sure my estimations are pretty accurate!!
Appbrain guys are still counting the dead apps.. as only 1.42 million apps are live and downloadable!
Comment below if you wanna know more about these stats and need to compare your apps w.r.t. others in the category or the Store.
I've tracked close to 1.7 million apps on Google Play Store. As of 14th Sept'2015. There were 17,00,835 apps on the Play store which my crawler could find.
There may be some more newly launched apps which don't show up in Search or Similar Apps Section on Google Play. It's hard to find these as crawler couldn't trace these easily. So total apps launched on Google play may be around 1.75 millions.
1.42 million apps are live now while 280K apps have been removed by Google from Play Store for some reason!
82% of the live Apps have less than 10,000 downloads.
About 1% of total apps have more than 1 million downloads!
This is where everyone wants to be :)
As per AppBrain (17th Sept 2015) there are close to 1.7 million apps on Play Store. So I'm sure my estimations are pretty accurate!!
Appbrain guys are still counting the dead apps.. as only 1.42 million apps are live and downloadable!
Comment below if you wanna know more about these stats and need to compare your apps w.r.t. others in the category or the Store.
Hi Vikram,
ReplyDeleteAs always, you have done a marvelous job. And I believe your statistics is quite useful in understanding the App world.
Can you please try to answer few questions which came to my mind after reading your blog.
a) What are the categories of the Apps among top 1%.
b) Is there any common thread that connects them, e.g. most of them are social media or games or news
c) Which is the most successful App developer? The developer having Max no. of Apps in top 20% (say)
etc etc
I would love to see your response on above lines.... Thanks for your blog post and plz keep writing. Love ur work.
-Shafi
Thanks!! Answers to your questions are -
Deletea. All 40 categories are present in top 1% Apps. Top 15 Being ..
App_Category App_Count
Casual 1,282
Tools 1,242
Entertainment 820
Arcade 773
Personalization 738
Puzzle 694
Photography 624
Action 544
Racing 516
Sports 509
Lifestyle 490
Music & Audio 462
Productivity 451
Communication 446
b. Most of these are the categories which allow people - TimePass!!
c. Top 20 successful developers as per the count of Million+ apps are ..
Developer Count
6677g.com 101
TabTale 99
Fingersoft 57
Sony+Mobile+Communications 56
IGG.COM 48
Zakeh 48
Disney 47
NEKKI 43
GO+Launcher+Dev+Team 39
Doodle+Mobile+Ltd. 38
Words+Mobile 38
Kaufcom+Games+Apps+Widgets 36
ZT.art 36
Yahoo+Japan+Corp. 35
TutoTOONS+Kids+Games 34
GO+Dev+Team 33
Salon%E2%84%A2 33
GO+Keyboard+Dev+Team 32
NTT+DOCOMO 31
Ketchapp 30
This analysis has taken me an Hour!! Happy to share the knowledge... :)