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Google Play (AppBrain)

How many apps Google Play lists, how many arrive each month and how many leave. Google publishes none of this, so the counts come from AppBrain, which has crawled the store since 2010. Google cut the store from about 2.8 million apps to 1.6 million between 2023 and early 2025. It has grown back to about 2.0 million since.

AppBrain counts these, not Google. Google publishes no store totals, so this is one company's crawl rather than an official figure, and nothing independent checks it.

cadence · monthly 4 series updated 10 Oct 2026 www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps ↗
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How big the store is

Apps listed on Google Play

2.0M +21.7% yr as of Sep 2026
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How many apps the store lists at each month end, not a count of that month. The fall through 2024 is a clear-out by Google, not a drop in what developers shipped.

What moves in and out

Apps added per month

43.0k −13.3% yr as of Sep 2026
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Apps removed per month

16.8k −48.5% yr as of Sep 2026
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Covers apps a developer withdrew and apps Google took down. AppBrain cannot tell the two apart.

Net change per month derived

26.2k +54.3% yr as of Sep 2026
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Apps added minus apps removed. Below zero means the store shrank that month.

Figures

SeriesLatestChangeMinMaxCoverage
Apps listed on Google Play2.0M+21.7% yr1.6M2.8MSep 2021 — Sep 2026
Apps added per month43.0k−13.3% yr35.9k87.8kSep 2021 — Sep 2026
Apps removed per month16.8k−48.5% yr16.8k300kSep 2021 — Sep 2026
Net change per month26.2k+54.3% yr-254.5k49.9kSep 2021 — Sep 2026
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