YoY number of new apps from H2 2017-H1 2020, by category

Published by Laura Ceci, Feb 15, 2022
From the second half of 2019 to the first half of 2020, almost 88,700 shopping apps were added to Google Play and the Apple App Store. This represents a 17 percent growth compared to the previous period, where only 75,865 shopping apps were added to the app stores. Gaming app releases saw the biggest decline.

Year over year number of new apps worldwide added by app category from 2nd half 2017 to 1st half 2020

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November 2020

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Worldwide

Survey time period

H2 2017 to H1 2020

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