How many apps are there in the Play Store? The number of available apps in the Google Play Store was most recently placed at 1.68 million apps, after surpassing 1 million apps in July 2013. Google Play Store Google Play was originally launched in October 2008 under the name Android Market. As Google’s official app store, it offers its customers a wide range of applications and digital media including music, magazines, books, film, and TV. As of April 2021, the ranking of the top-grossing Android apps worldwide is dominated by mobile games with Coin Master, Garena Free Fire, and PUBG mobile leading the ranking. This hardly comes as a surprise as it is estimated that gaming apps will account for over 70 percent of Google Play app revenues in 2024. As most apps in the Google Play Store are available for free, the company needs to utilize effective business models to secure healthy revenue. How do apps make money? Despite the robust gaming app revenues, most gaming apps are free to download and rely on monetization via in-app advertising or in-game purchases of items such as boosters and accessories. A November 2021 survey of mobile app publishers found that video ads were the most popular mobile app monetization model, followed by display ads and in-app purchases. Additionally, monetizing via subscriptions has proven an effective model for several highly popular apps, with subscription revenues hitting 18.3 billion U.S. dollars in revenues in 2021.

Unlock valuable insights with the Google Play Store Android Apps Dataset in CSV format, featuring detailed information on over thousands of Android apps available on the Google Play Store. This comprehensive dataset includes key attributes such as App Name, App Logo, Category, Description, Average Rating, Ratings Count, In-app Purchases, Operating System, Company, Content Rating, Images, Email, Additional Information, and more.

Perfect for market researchers, data scientists, app developers, and analysts, this dataset allows for deep analysis of app performance, user preferences, and industry trends. With data on app descriptions, content ratings, in-app purchases, and company information, you can track trends in the mobile app market, evaluate user satisfaction, and conduct competitive analysis.

The dataset is ideal for businesses looking to optimize app strategies, enhance user experience, and improve app performance based on real user feedback. Easily import the data into your favorite analysis tools to gain actionable insights for your app development or research.

With regularly updated data scraped directly from the Google Play Store, the Google Play Store Android Apps Dataset is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to explore trends, track performance, or enhance their app strategies.

During the second quarter of 2024, over 2.26 million mobile apps were available on the Google Play Store, down by 18 percent compared to the previous quarter. Between the beginning of 2019 and the end of 2021, the number of mobile apps available to Android users via the Google Play Store experienced a constant increase, reaching 4.67 million apps during the last quarter of 2021. However, after 2022, the number of apps available in the Google Play Store fluctuated.

Context

While many public datasets (on Kaggle and the like) provide Apple App Store data, few counterpart datasets are available for Google Play Store apps anywhere on the web. On digging deeper, I discovered that the iTunes App Store page deploys a nicely indexed appendix-like structure to allow for simple and easy web scraping. On the other hand, Google Play Store uses sophisticated modern-day techniques (like dynamic page load) using JQuery making scraping more challenging.

Content

• There are 13 features in the dataset, and each feature indicates some details of Google application name, category, rating, reviews, size, installs, type, price, content rating genres, last updated, current version and Android version.
• App: The application name.
• Category: The category the app belongs to.
• Rating: Overall user rating of the app.
• Reviews: Number of user reviews for the app.
• Size: The size of the app.
• Installs: Number of user installs for the app.
• Type: Either "Paid" or "Free".
• Price: The price of the app.
• Content Rating: The age group the app is targeted at - "Children" / "Mature 21+" / "Adult".
• Genres: Possibly multiple genres the app belongs to.
• Last Updated: The date the app was last updated.
• Current Ver: The current version of the app.
• Android Ver: The Android version is needed for this app.

As of May 2025, nearly ** percent of apps in the Google Play app store were freely available. The number of free apps on the Google Play Store and the Apple Store alike has been consistently higher than the number of paid apps. By comparison, free Android apps on Amazon Appstore were roughly ** percent, while paid apps accounted for a share of ** percent of the total apps available in the store. Mobile apps and consumer spending Mobile apps have become integral to our daily routine, offering convenience and entertainment. In the second quarter of 2024, the total value of the global consumer spending on mobile apps was almost ** billion U.S. dollars, highlighting the significant role that mobile apps play in the digital economy. As of the third quarter of 2023, consumers spent an average of **** U.S. dollars on mobile apps per smartphone, which underlines the high demand for these digital solutions. App stores commission rates under scrutiny As of August 2023, the standard commission rates on revenues generated from apps hosted on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store were set at ** percent. However, between the end of 2020 and mid-2021, both Apple and Google were forced to address the criticism of their app store policies. In 2020, the European Union drafted the Digital Market Act, with the purpose of ensuring a healthy degree of competition in the tech environment. In December 2022, Apple was reported to start planning to allow sideloading and the presence of alternative app stores on its devices. In August 2021, the United States Senate presented the Open Apps Market Act to reduce tech giants‘ control over the digital app market. As regulations are expected to promote competition in the tech and mobile environment, in March 2023, Microsoft was reported to preparing to launch a new mobile gaming store, which will compete with the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.In 2026, mobile app spending is forecasted to reach *** billion U.S. dollars and ** billion U.S. dollars on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, respectively. While both Google and Apple started applying some changes in their app store policies in 2021, like lowering commission fees for small publishers generating less than *** million U.S. dollars in yearly revenues, the two tech giants might face additional restrictions and limitations in all their major markets. In the case of Apple, in 2021, the company updated its App Store policies, allowing developers to offer alternative payment methods. In 2022, Apple updated its review guidelines, requiring developers to share more information about collecting and using data, including disclosing the types of collected data and how it's used.

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Instructions for citation:

If you use this dataset anywhere in your work, kindly cite as the below: L. Gupta, "Google Play Store Apps," Feb 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.kaggle.com/lava18/google-play-store-apps

Context

While many public datasets (on Kaggle and the like) provide Apple App Store data, there are not many counterpart datasets available for Google Play Store apps anywhere on the web. On digging deeper, I found out that iTunes App Store page deploys a nicely indexed appendix-like structure to allow for simple and easy web scraping. On the other hand, Google Play Store uses sophisticated modern-day techniques (like dynamic page load) using JQuery making scraping more challenging.

Content

Each app (row) has values for catergory, rating, size, and more.

Acknowledgements

This information is scraped from the Google Play Store. This app information would not be available without it.

Inspiration

The Play Store apps data has enormous potential to drive app-making businesses to success. Actionable insights can be drawn for developers to work on and capture the Android market!

In April 2025, approximately ** thousand mobile apps were released through the Google Play Store. This figure indicates a notable decrease compared to the previous examined period. In the measured period, the highest number of app releases via Google Play Store was recorded in March 2019, with over *** thousand apps released.

The amount of Android apps available for download is constantly increasing, exerting a continuous pressure on developers to publish outstanding apps. Google Play (GP) is the default distribution channel for Android apps, which provides mobile app users with metrics to identify and report apps quality such as rating, amount of downloads, previous users comments, etc. In addition to those metrics, GP presents a set of top charts that highlight the outstanding apps in different categories. Both metrics and top app charts help developers to identify whether their development decisions are well valued by the community. Therefore, app presence in these top charts is a valuable information when understanding the features of top-apps. In this paper we present Hall-of-Apps, a dataset containing top charts' apps metadata extracted (weekly) from GP, for 4 different countries, during 30 weeks. The data is presented as (i) raw HTML files, (ii) a MongoDB database with all the information contained in app's HTML files (e.g., app description, category, general rating, etc.), and (iii) data visualizations built with the D3.js framework. A first characterization of the data along with the urls to retrieve it can be found in our online appendix: https://thesoftwaredesignlab.github.io/hall-of-apps-tools/

Dataset Descriptions¶ App: Name of the mobile application.

Category: Category or genre to which the app belongs.

Rating: User rating score of the app.

Reviews: Number of user reviews/ratings for the app.

Size: Size of the app installation package.

Installs: Number of times the app has been installed.

Type: Whether the app is free or paid.

Price: Price of the app if it's paid; otherwise, '0' or 'Free'.

Content Rating: Content rating indicating suitability for different age groups.

Genres: Specific genres or themes associated with the app.

Last Updated: Date when the app was last updated.

Current Ver: Current version of the app.

Android Ver: Minimum required Android version to run the app.

App Download Key StatisticsApp and Game DownloadsiOS App and Game DownloadsGoogle Play App and Game DownloadsGame DownloadsiOS Game DownloadsGoogle Play Game DownloadsApp DownloadsiOS App...

As of September 2025, around 97 percent of all Android apps were available for free, while three percent required payment. Overall, the number of free apps available on the Google Play Store has remained higher than the number of paid apps in the examined period.

A large-scale dataset on the dynamic profiles based on function calls of 35,974 benign and malicious Android apps from 10 historical years (2010 through 2019). Function calls are a commonly used means to model program behaviors, which may contribute to various code analysis approaches to assuring software correctness, reliability, and security. In particular, our dataset includes dynamic profiles of each app resulting from the same-length of time (10 mins) of being exercised by randomly generated inputs on both emulator and real device, enabling interesting and useful app analysis that reason about app behaviors in an evolutionary perspective while informing the differences of app behaviors on different run-time hardware platforms. Since we have 20 yearly datasets associated with 35,974 unique Android apps across the 10 years, profiling these apps took 12,000 hours. Considering the costs of filtering out apps that were originally sampled but that we were unable to profile (due to various reasons such as broken APKs, not being executable because of incompatibility issues, not instrumentable, etc.), we took over two years to produce all these traces. We hope to save future researchers' time in producing such a set of dynamic data to enable their empirical and technical work.

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Thanks for your interest in our dataset. Collecting this dataset took tremendous computational and human effort. Thus, please observe the following restrictions in using our dataset:

- Do not redistribute this dataset without our consent.
- Do not make commercial usage of this dataset.
- Get a faculty, or someone in a permanent position, to agree and commit to these conditions.
- When publishing your work that uses our dataset, please cite the following MSR 2021 data paper.

@inproceedings{AndroidCT,
title = {AndroCT: Ten Years of App Call Traces in Android},
author = {Wen Li, Xiaoqin Fu, and Haipeng Cai},
booktitle = {The 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), Data Showcase Track},
year = {2021},
}

Android’s Google Play Store continues to shape the global mobile ecosystem. By early 2025, it hosts over 4 million apps, facilitating hundreds of billions of downloads annually. From free tools to subscription games, Play powers both consumer habits and developer income. Its impact extends to market insights in mobile monetization and...

Description:

• The dataset comprises anonymized data on apps available on the Google Play Store, capturing various aspects such as ratings, downloads, and categorization.
• The dataset has 10,841 entries, with some columns containing missing values, particularly in "Rating," "Type," "Content Rating," "Current Ver," and "Android Ver".
• This dataset can be utilized for analyzing trends in mobile app usage, user preferences, and app performance metrics across different categories.
• It can aid in understanding the impact of factors like app size, rating, and category on user downloads and popularity.
• This dataset can be utilized for analyzing app popularity, user preferences, and the relationship between app features (e.g., size, price) and downloads.
• It can help in identifying trends in app categories, assessing user satisfaction through ratings and reviews, and providing insights for app developers and marketers on user engagement and app performance.

Features:

Android continues to shape the mobile world. From billions of users to the latest AI enhancements, its relevance spans industries and individual lives alike. For example, Android powers mission-critical earthquake alert systems in regions with minimal infrastructure, turning everyday phones into early-warning sensors. In another use case, retail chains leverage...

The graph shows a comparison for app downloads worldwide from 2018 to 2024, using data from Sensor Tower and data.ai. Global app downloads have plateaued in recent years, even declining, after seeing strong growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. For 2024, 136 billion unique downloads per user account were recorded. Why the difference? Source methodology explains the gap The discrepancy arises from significant differences in the methodology used by the sources to aggregate and generate the data. Sensor Tower reports only unique downloads per user account, excluding app updates, re-downloads, and installations on multiple devices by the same user. In contrast, data.ai includes these additional activities as well as downloads from third-party Android stores and a broader geographic scope, resulting in substantially higher total counts. As a result, Sensor Tower's numbers better reflect new user acquisition, while data.ai's encompass all market activity and total engagement. Despite stagnating downloads user spending is growing While the number of downloads is leveling off, consumer spending on in-app purchases and related revenue has grown in 2024 to 150 billion U.S. dollars, up from around 130 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. While gaming remains the highest grossing app category overall, other categories drove the growth. The entertainment, photo & video, productivity, and social networking categories each grew by at least one billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2024 compared to the previous year.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, a growing number of malicious campaigns are exploiting the pandemic. It is reported that COVID-19 is being used in a variety of online malicious activities, including Email scam, ransomware and malicious domains. As the number of the afflicted cases continue to surge, malicious campaigns that use coronavirus as a lure are increasing. Malicious developers take advantage of this opportunity to lure mobile users to download and install malicious apps.

However, besides a few media reports, the coronavirus-themed mobile malware has not been well studied. Our community lacks of the comprehensive understanding of the landscape of the coronavirus-themed mobile malware, and no accessible dataset could be used by our researchers to boost COVID-19 related cybersecurity studies.

We make efforts to create a daily growing COVID-19 related mobile app dataset. By the time of mid-November, we have curated a dataset of 4,322 COVID-19 themed apps, and 611 of them are considered to be malicious. The number is growing daily and our dataset will update weekly. For more details, please visit https://covid19apps.github.io

This dataset includes the following files:

(1) covid19apps.xlsx

In this file, we list all the COVID-19 themed apps information, including apk file hashes, released date, package name, AV-Rank, etc.

(2)covid19apps.zip

We put the COVID-19 themed apps Apk samples in zip files . In order to reduce the size of a single file, we divide the sample into multiple zip files for storage. And the APK file name after the file SHA256.

If your papers or articles use our dataset, please use the following bibtex reference to cite our paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14619

(Accepted to Empirical Software Engineering)

 @misc{wang2021virus,
   title={Beyond the Virus: A First Look at Coronavirus-themed Mobile Malware}, 
   author={Liu Wang and Ren He and Haoyu Wang and Pengcheng Xia and Yuanchun Li and Lei Wu and Yajin Zhou and Xiapu Luo and Yulei Sui and Yao Guo and Guoai Xu},
   year={2021},
   eprint={2005.14619},
   archivePrefix={arXiv},
   primaryClass={cs.CR}
}

Context

To date (April 2020), Android is still the most popular mobile operating system in the world. Taking into account billion of Android users worldwide, mining this data has the potential to reveal user behaviors and trends in the whole global scope.

Content

There are 2 CSV files: - app.csv with 53,732 rows and 18 columns. - comment.csv with 1,468,173 rows and 4 columns.

The scraping was done in April 2020.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is obtained from scraping Google Play Store. Without Google and Android, this dataset wouldn’t have existed.

The dataset is first published in this blog.

Inspiration

Business trends on mobile can be explored by examining this dataset.

In August 2025, ChatGPT was the most-downloaded app in the Google Play Store worldwide, generating almost ***million downloads from Android users. TikTok was the second-most popular app with approximately ***million downloads from global users. The Google Play Store ecosystem Launched in March 2016, the Google Play Store is the major app distributor for global Android users, as well as one of the most important mobile app stores in the industry. As of the second quarter of 2024, over **** million mobile apps were available on the Google Play Store, after hitting the record number of **** million apps available to users during the fourth quarter of 2021. Android users browsing the Google Play Store can find any type of mobile app, from dating to mobile productivity, with gaming apps being the most popular app category on the platform. Maintenance of apps hosted in the Google Play Store helps improve the overall quality of content proposed to users. Built for success: app optimization in the Google Play Store Being featured in the first positions on mobile app stores results page is key to the success of an application, as it improves impressions and increases the chances of downloads. User satisfaction and good experiences are, as always, the top variables to determine apps’ popularity. As of February 2022, the average rating of mobile apps figuring in the first ** positions on the Google Play Store was almost four stars, with reviews ranging from **** to **** stars. When it came to SEO, it was found that mobile apps spotting category-specific target keywords in the titles ranked higher than those who did not. Additionally, app icons in the Google Play Store presented industry-specific colors for different categories, like black for gaming apps and red for food and drink apps. Highly recognizable app category colors might not only help users in their app search endeavors, but also increase brand awareness.

Context

Google Play stores top 500 app data based on their rankings on January 2022 for all the available categories. Link to scraping code: https://github.com/Shakthi-Dhar/AppPin Link to backup datafiles: github data files

Content

The dataset contains the top 500 android apps available on the google play store for the following categories: All Categories, Art & Design, Auto & Vehicles, Beauty, Books & Reference, Business, Comics, Communication, Education, Entertainment, Events, Finance, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, House & Home, Libraries & Demo, Lifestyle, Maps & Navigation, Medical, Music & Audio, News & Magazines, Parenting, Personalization, Photography, Productivity, Shopping, Social, Sports, Tools, Travel & Local, and Video Players & Editors.

The app rankings are based on google play store app rankings for January 2022.

Abbreviations

In Review and Downloads, the alphabet T, L, Cr represents Thousands, Lakhs, Crores as per the google play store naming convention. They are similar to M, B which represent millions, billions. 1L (1 Lakh) = 100T (100 Thousand) 10L (10 Lakhs) = 1M (1 Million) 1Cr( 1 Crore) = 10M (10 Million)

Acknowledgements

This data is not provided directly by Google, so I used Appium an automation tool with python to scrape the data from the google play store app.

Inspiration

Inspired by Fortune500. Fortune500 provides data on top companies in the world, so why not have a data source for top apps in the world.