Number of available apps in the Apple App Store 2008-2017

This statistic gives information on the number of available apps in the Apple App Store since July 2008. As of January 2017, 2.2 million mobile apps were available to download for various iOS devices. Apple App Store – additional informationThe Apple App Store allows users to browse and download applications to their iPhone, iPod Touch, of iPad. Apple’s App Store was first launched in July 2008. By measuring the cumulative number of apps downloaded from the Apple App Store. In April 2009, Apple reported a cumulative 1 billion downloads from its App Store. This figure has continued to rise ever since and as of September 2016, there were an estimated 140 billion downloads made worldwide.Apple’s App Store offers a variety of categories to its users, including health and fitness, music and reference apps. The most popular Apple App Store categories in March 2017, as a share of available apps on the platform are as follows; games proved to be the most popular during that month with a 25.04 percent share. Business apps were ranked second with a 9.88 percent share and educational apps came third with a 8.47 percent share. At the other end of the list, shopping apps only accounted for 1.29 percent of available apps. However, retail apps have one of the largest audience reaches with retail app revenues have been increasing due to mobile shopping usage.

本统计数据揭示了自2008年7月以来在苹果应用商店中可供下载的应用程序数量。截至2017年1月，已有220万款移动应用程序可供各种iOS设备下载。苹果应用商店——附加信息苹果应用商店允许用户浏览并下载适用于其iPhone、iPod Touch或iPad的应用程序。苹果的App Store首次于2008年7月推出。通过衡量从苹果应用商店下载的应用程序的累积数量，苹果在2009年4月报告了其应用商店累计下载量达到10亿次。自那时起，这一数字持续攀升，截至2016年9月，全球下载量已估计达到1400亿次。苹果应用商店向用户提供多种类别，包括健康与健身、音乐与参考应用。在2017年3月，按平台上可用的应用程序份额来看，苹果应用商店最受欢迎的类别为游戏，占比25.04%；商业应用位居第二，占比9.88%；教育应用位列第三，占比8.47%。在列表的另一端，购物应用仅占可用应用程序的1.29%。然而，由于移动购物使用的增加，零售应用拥有最大的受众覆盖范围，零售应用的收入也在持续增长。