The most frequently occurring words in iOS app titles were published in a report by AppsFire yesterday. As Android app discovery is at the core of what we do at AppBrain, we decided to compile a list of top title words for Android apps and compare that list to the one from iOS.



The most frequent words in Android app titles are:*

26900: wallpaper 23761: live 16283: free 9436: theme 8291: lite 7896: pro 5692: app 5500: mobile 4718: news 4355: lwp 4179: sms 4135: widget 3945: game 3864: guide 3622: calculator 3601: clock 3369: 2012 2919: radio 2720: android 2661: bestpuzzle 2597: quiz 2593: launcher 2549: love 2377: puzzle 2322: english

Words that occur in the top list of both operating systems are marked in bold and can be regarded as “generic” words for mobile app titles. More interestingly, many of the top words that are unique to Android really point to features specific to the Android platform: live wallpapers (also abbreviated as lwp), easy theming, desktop widgets and a customizable clock and launcher.



We provide more statistics about the Google Play market on a continuous basis on the AppBrain stats pages.



Happy weekend,

Michael for the AppBrain team



* This is a holistic view on the roughly 500K apps in the Play store, not a sampling, obviously :)