Count of Active Applications in the App Store

This page shows the number of active applications in currently in the US App Store. Active applications, for the purpose of these metrics, are applications that appeared in the app store on a particular day/week/month.

Total Active Apps (currently available for download): 134,215
Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 16,382
Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 150,597
Number of Active Publishers in the US App Store: 29,340

Count of Active Applications By Month
Month	# Apps	# Games	# Total
2008-05	1	1	2
2008-06	14	6	20
2008-07	889	290	1,179
2008-08	1,812	579	2,391
2008-09	3,320	1,020	4,340
2008-10	4,990	1,478	6,468
2008-11	7,028	2,038	9,066
2008-12	9,538	2,674	12,212
2009-01	12,841	3,421	16,262
2009-02	17,056	4,326	21,382
2009-03	22,273	5,461	27,734
2009-04	27,700	6,693	34,393
2009-05	33,543	7,963	41,506
2009-06	41,277	9,368	50,645
2009-07	49,323	10,808	60,131
2009-08	57,518	12,414	69,932
2009-09	67,674	14,333	82,007
2009-10	74,551	15,835	90,386
2009-11	83,736	17,617	101,353
2009-12	105,383	20,837	126,220

Page last updated: 2010-01-14 12:11:37 -0800 PST