The most comprehensive data on Android Apps from Play Store you will find anywhere. This has been put together using unofficial non-commercial Play Store APIs and publicly available reports. I will try to update these data points every quarter.

There are just 0.075% Apps on Play Store with over 1mn installs + 4.5 star ratings

Source: Play Store API

[5th August] Number of Apps on Play Store has now come down to 3.2mn. Lot of fake & inactive apps were weeded out by Google recently

Top 10 Developers on Play Store

Source: Play Store APIs

Paid vs Free Apps Share

Just 2 years ago, Paid Apps share was 15%. It will continue to slide further as developers & consumers prefer Freemium over paid

Source: Play Store APIs

[5th August] Share of paid Apps has fallen further. It now has 5% share overall. Paid Apps count has fallen to 150k now while Free Apps are at 2.9mn

Top Categories by number of Apps (Free)

Interestingly Shopping, Dating, Social aren’t popular among developers. Reason = few top apps almost have monopolistic control over these categories

Source: Play Store APIs

Top Categories by number of Apps (Paid)

There are just 220k paid Apps on Play Store and less than 2000 apps have crossed a million mark

Source: Play Store APIs

Top Apps based on MAUs

Source: Statista

Average Cost per Install Worldwide

Source: Admob, FB Analytics

Monthly App Downloads — Android only

Last 12 months saw 60 billion Installs on Play Store. China alone did 67 billion Android installs

Source: Play Store APIs, AppAnnie & Similarweb

Monthly Consumer Spends In-App

Worldwide consumers spent $14.6 billion in last 12 months excluding China. Chinese consumers spent $13.2 billion in-App 😯

Source: AppAnnie & Similarweb

Minutes Spent on Apps per day in each country

Top Countries based on App Used vs Installed

Source: AppAnnie 2017–18 Report

Most Popular SDKs embedded in Apps

Source: Play Store APIs

Source: Play Store APIs

I will be happy to hear your feedback on this. Let me know if you would like me to add any more data points here. Feel free to comment here or tag me on twitter @deepakabbot or mail me at dabbot@gmail.com

Note: This data may have a 15% error rate. Refer this data for getting a macro trend around Android Apps