Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year

Google Play applications market loses applications.

From the beginning of the year 2024 to the present, the Android Application market has moved from hosting about 3.4 million applications all over the world to about 1.8 million people, according to a new analysis by the App Intelligence provider. This is a decrease of about 47 %, and it represents a significant purification of the applications that were available to Android users worldwide.

The company also indicates a decrease is not part of some of the largest global trends, as the company notes. During the same period, the Apple iOS application store moved from hosting 1.6 million applications to about 1.64 million applications, for example – a slight increase.

In the case of Google, the decrease in applications may be a satisfaction for the owners of Android devices who were forced to sort through Scammy and SPMMY applications and bad quality applications to find the best applications to install. The reduction can also help developers who had to struggle for vision.

Over the years, the less strict requirements of Google Play to review the application have led to the market exceeding low -quality applications. While Apple continues to apply strict applications for pre -publication, Google often depends on automatic checks with suggestive programs to accelerate the application review process. It tends to obtain a shorter review period as a result of a lighter touch in terms of human review.

In July 2024, Google announced that it would raise the minimum quality requirements for the applications, which may have affected the number of play store applications available.

Instead of blocking only broken applications that have been shattered, or not installed, or operating properly, the company said it will start prohibiting applications that have shown “limited functions and content”. This guarantees fixed applications without the application features, such as text apps only or PDF files applications. It also included applications that provide a little content, such as those that only displayed one background. In addition, Google has banned the designed applications for not doing anything or not have a job, which may be the tests or efforts of other developers.

The comment was reached, Google confirmed that its new policies were factors here, which also included an expanded set of verification requirements, the application test required for the new personal developers accounts, and expanded human reviews to verify applications that try to deceive users or fraud.

In addition, the company referred to other investments in 2024 in artificial intelligence to detect threats, strongest privacy policies, improved developers tools, and more. As a result, Google prevented 2.36 million applications of policy implemented from publishing it on the Play Store and banning more than 158,000 developed accounts. Try to post harmful applications.

One of the factors that Google has not been martyred is the new TRARARAR case base imposed by the European Union as of February, which began to require developers to share their names and addresses in the application list. Those who failed to do so will see their applications are removed from European Union app stores. (It should be noted that the Apple also started requesting the trading status information in February, and did not witness a decrease in the available applications as a result.)

In addition, the applications note that they started seeing a decrease in the number of applications in the Google Play store even before the official start of disinfection last summer; She has no yet interpretation of this change. However, the company says that there have been 10.4 km on Google Play so far this year, an increase of 7.1 % on an annual basis as of April.