List of mobile app distribution platforms

This list of mobile app distribution platforms includes digital distribution platforms that are intended to provide mobile apps to mobile devices. For information on each mobile platform and its market share see the operating systems section of the mobile operating system and smartphone. A comparison of development capabilities of each mobile platform can be found in the article mobile development. For cross-platform development see multiple phone web-based application framework. The article mobile software contains other general information.

See also: Mobile apps and App store

Native platforms

These application marketplaces are native to the major mobile operating systems:

Name Established Status Owner Available apps Download count Installed base Device platform Allows individual developers to publish Developer's cut per sale Developer fees Development tool(s) Free of charge IDE?
Amazon Appstore 22 March 2011 Live Amazon.com 452,054
(January 2019)[1]		 Unknown Unknown Android OS (customized), Android Yes 70% US$99/year
(Waive fee for first year, plus $50 AWS promo code[2])		 Amazon Mobile App SDK[3] Yes
App Catalog 6 June 2009 Closed Palm/HP 10,002
(December 2011)[4]		 108 million
(August 2011)[5]		 2.6 million
(July 2010)[6]		 webOS[l 1] Yes 70%[7] Free[7] Enyo Yes
App Store

(iOS)

 10 July 2008 Live Apple 2,200,000 (January 2017)[8]

(1M iPad apps)
(March 2016)[9]

 130 billion
(June 2016)[10]		 800 million
(June 2014)[11]		 iOS[l 2] Yes 56–71% (varies depending on the country)[12] US$99/year[13] iOS SDK, Xcode Yes (Xcode 6 is free on the Mac App Store and Apple Developer.)
BlackBerry World 1 April 2009 Closed BlackBerry 223,601
(26 October 2013) BlackBerry OS, PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 apps[14]		 3 billion
(May 2012)[15]		 75 million
(Jan 2012)[16]		 BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry Tablet OS, BlackBerry 10 OS[l 3] Yes 70%[17] Free[18] BlackBerry 10 Native SDK (with full POSIX and Qt support), HTML5 Qt4 SDK, Android (via BlackBerry Android Tools SDK), Adobe AIR SDK, BlackBerry OS SDK Yes
PureOS Software Center November 2017?
 Live The Debian Project
(a democracy)		 "Quite many"[19]
Most Linux software applications will run on PureOS.		 Unknown Unknown open-source mobile phones Yes
(anything packaged in the Debian package database should run)[19]		 0 Free Linux Yes
Download Catalog 1 October 2002 Closed[20] Danger, Inc./Microsoft Unknown Unknown Unknown Danger OS Yes 40% Free Danger OS SDK[21] Yes
Google Play 22 October 2008 Live Google 3,500,000
(December 2017)[22][23]		 50 billion
(July 2013)[24]		 over 2 billion
(May 2017)[25]		 Android[l 4] Yes 70% US$25[26] Android SDK, Android Studio Yes
Firefox Marketplace 6 September 2013 Closed[27] Mozilla Foundation 5,957
(March 2014)[28]		 Unknown Unknown Firefox OS Yes 70%[29] Unknown Unknown Yes
Microsoft Store 26 October 2012 Live Microsoft 669,000+

(September 2015)

 Unknown 410 million PC devices
(November 2015)[30]

93 million smartphones[note 1]
(September 2015)[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]

 Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone Yes with restriction[note 2] 70% that is raised to 80% if developer sales exceeds US$25,000 in a year Individuals: US$19/year or US$0/year for student, Companies:US$99/year . One Registration fee for both of Windows phone Store and Windows Store. Visual Studio 2013 or higher for Windows 8.1.
Visual Studio 2015 or higher for Universal Apps.
Windows App Studio		 Yes
Nokia Download! 2006 replaced with the Ovi Store Nokia Symbian (S60), Series 40
Nokia Store (formerly Ovi Store) 26 May 2009 replaced with the Opera Mobile Store[41] Nokia 120,000 (August 2012)[42]
17 million/day (October 2012)[42]

~6 billion (August 2012)[43]

 885 million
 Multiple[l 5]

Symbian, MeeGo, Maemo, S40, Nokia X software platform		 Yes 70% 1 €[44] Qt 4 SDK,[45] Nokia Web Tools,[46] Nokia SDK for Java, Java ME[47], Nokia X services SDK [48] Yes
OpenStore for Ubuntu Touch September 2014[49] Live UBports
(a democracy)		 Many.
Most Linux software applications will run on Ubuntu Touch.		 Unknown Unknown open-source mobile phones Yes
(anything packaged in the Ubuntu package database should run)		 0 Free Linux Yes
Samsung Galaxy Apps June 2009 Live Samsung
Ubuntu App Store 17 October 2013 Live Canonical 2,650+
(December 2015, incl. web apps and scopes)
[50]		 Unknown Unknown Ubuntu Touch Yes Unknown Unknown Ubuntu SDK Yes
Windows Phone Store 21 October 2010 merged with the Windows Store[51] Microsoft 400,000+
(March 2015)

[52]

 9 billion
(March 2015)[52]
(105 per device)		 100 million
(June 2015)[31][53][54][55][35][32][33]		 Windows Phone[l 6] Yes 70% US$19 for individuals, or US$99 for companies /year/unlimited paid apps and 100 free apps submissions Or Free for students[56][57] One Registration fee for both of Windows phone Store and Windows Store. Windows Phone Developer Tools, includes specialty versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, Expression Blend Yes
Name Established Status Owner Available apps Download count Installed base Device platform Allows individual developers to publish Developer's cut per sale Developer fees Development tool(s) Free of charge IDE?
Notes
  1. Including Windows Phone 8.0, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile. Excluding Windows Phone 7, because although it is still live, so is no longer supported and never be able to take advantage of all types of applications (e.g. universal apps)
  2. Microsoft classifies developer accounts to individual accounts and company accounts. Individual accounts are restricted from using specific app capabilities and cannot list desktop apps in Windows Store, while company accounts do not have this restriction.[39] Microsoft verifies company accounts by contacting the company official, while this is not done for individual accounts.[40]

Third-party platforms

Third-party platforms are software distribution platforms which are used as alternatives for operating system native distribution platforms. Independent operating systems are software collections which use their own software distribution, customized user interface, SDK and API (except billing API which is related only to application store).

Name Established Status Organizations Available apps Download count Install base Device platform Developer's cut per sale Developer fees Developer Console Development platform(s)
Appland 2011 Live Appland 130,000[58] 25 million (March 2016) 5 million (March 2016) Android and iOS Up to 70% Free Unknown Unknown
Aptoide October 2010 Live Aptoide 311,000
(April 2015)		 300 million
(March 2013)		 10.5 million
(January 2013)		 Android up to 87.5% Free Unknown Android SDK, Java ME
Cafe Bazaar April 2011 Live Hezardastan Technologies 160,000

(May 2019)[59]

 40 million

(May 2019)[60]

 Android Up to 70% Free Unknown
Cydia February 2008 Live saurik Unknown Unknown 30 million iOS N/A Free Unknown iOS SDK, Xcode
F-Droid 2010 Live F-Droid Limited 3,018[61] 248 million
(Mar 2015)[62]		 Unknown Android N/A Free Unknown Android SDK
GetJar 2004 Live GetJar, Accel Partners 849,036
(March 2015)[63]		 3 billion
(March 2015)[64]		 200 million users[63] Multiple[65]
Android, BlackBerry OS, Flash Lite, Java, iOS, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows Phone		 N/A Free[65] Unknown Unknown
Handango 2000 Closed PocketGear 190,000[66] Yes Unknown Multiple[l 7]
Android, BlackBerry OS, Palm OS, PSP, Symbian, Windows Mobile		 ≈42% Free N/A
Handmark 2000 Closed Handmark Unknown Unknown Unknown Multiple[l 8]
Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Java, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows Mobile		 Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
MiKandi 29 November 2009 Live MiKandi Unknown Unknown 80,000
(December 2009)[67]		 Android[68] Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Opera Mobile Store March 2011 Live Opera Software 300,000
(November 2014)[69]		 45 million per month
(December 2012)[70]		 Unknown Multiple[71]
Android, Java, Symbian, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile, iOS		 70% — Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile; 50% — Java[72] Free[72] Unknown Android SDK, Java ME, S60, BlackBerry SDK, Windows Phone Developer Tools
PocketGear 1999 Closed PocketGear 140,000
(June 2010)[73]		 Yes Unknown Multiple
Android, BlackBerry OS, Java, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows Mobile		 ≈55% Free Unknown N/A
Name Established Status Organizations Available apps Download count Install base Device platform Developer's cut per sale Developer fees Developer Console Development platform(s)

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