GetJar Mobile App Store Now Seeing 3 Million Downloads Per Day
World’s biggest independent Mobile app store GetJar today announced that it has reached three million downloads per day. With this achievement GetJar is second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion downloads till the time.
GetJar app store is available across all mobile platforms including Android, BlackBrry, Java, iPhone, Symbian and also for Windows Mobile. It provides more than 70,000 mobile applications to consumers in more than 200 countries.
According to the GetJar, As of July 2010, FaceBook, eBuddy Messenger YouTube, Nimbuzz and Yahoo! Mobile remained among the top, with Games “Warships Sea on Fire” and “Racing Mania” top among its category. Other leading categories include Lifestyle, Entertainment, Music, Maps, search, Financial, Sports and productivity downloads.
| Top-10 | Top 10 Apps Overall by Downloads | Top 10 Social & Messaging Downloads |
| 1 | Facebook Mobile | Facebook Mobile |
| 2 | eBuddy Messenger | eBuddy Messenger |
| 3 | Nimbuzz | Nimbuzz |
| 4 | Migg33 | Migg33 |
| 5 | Opera Mini browser | Yahoo! Mail |
| 6 | Yahoo! Mobile | Shut down mobile by sms |
| 7 | Snaptu | |
| 8 | Yahoo! Mail | qeep |
| 9 | Bitstream Bolt Browser | RockeTalk |
Patrick Mork CMO GetJar, stated “We see Indian consumers downloading more productivity applications that enhance the usage of their phone compared to Americans for example and English consumers downloading more entertainment apps then Indians. Religious apps are popular in the Middle East. Downloads by platform are also shifting quickly. Android wasn’t even a part of our business last year. Today, it’s the 2nd most popular platform developers are submitting on when uploading content to GetJar and we have at least 3 devices in our top 20 list of devices in the US that are Android powered.”
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absoulatly getjar is best website for application
Getjar is the easy to use site where we never require to create our own id or need to submit our working email id etc its really very easy to use site so that they crossed such huge figure. Keep up the good work G E T J A R. For latest or old applications this site is superb.
What is surprising is that Apple’s iOS App Store is seeing 2 billion app downloads every 2 months and accelerating (16 million per day), GetJar’s figures are significantly less impressive particularly since GetJar caters for so many more phones, manufacturers and operating systems (including Java ME, BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android).
GetJar has been in existence 4 years longer than the iOS App Store and yet has only recently hit 1 billion total downloads compared to 5 billion in 2 years for the App Store. GetJar also only hosts 70,000 apps v 250,000 on the iOS App Store.
Add to that the fact that a significant portion of App Store downloads are paid-for, high quality native apps compared to the low-quality, free java shovelware of GetJar and it pales even more.
With developers using paid app stores like Android Marketplace (which is only 3 month younger than Apple’s store) only managing a measly 2% of the income of the $1 billion made by devs on the iOS App Store, you can see why iOS now has the lion’s share of mobile developers. Why would a developer bother with GetJar or Android Marketplace?
If GetJar is in second place and yet so far behind the iOS App Store, it does shed light on the amazing dominance of Apple in this space.
-Mart
@Martin Hill
To be objective, Apple includes automatic updates in their download numbers and on average 1 unique downloads gets 3-4 updates. With this in mind, GetJar’s 3M is almost on par with Apple’s 4M-5M, as GetJar can’t do and therefore calculate updates.
@San Jose
On the contrary, Apple has previously stated that updates to existing software are not counted n the download numbers so the actual figure would in fact be far higher.
In contrast GetJar counts every download web even if a user re-downloads an app or gets the latest update.
As such the disparity between the two services is even more drastic.
-Mart
Slight typo in my figures.
Apple is getting 1 billion downloads every 2 months.
My daily figure was correct – 16 million downloads per day
Here are some more details on the very disappointing state the paid Android market is in for comparison:
“Overall (as of June 18th, 2010), there were roughly 2,250 paid games and 13,000 paid non-game apps in the Market. The reason for the large number of apps vs. games is mainly due to the proliferation of spam apps, something which is much rarer in the games category. 4 games are in the 50,000-250,000 range, while 9 apps are in the 50,000-250,000 range. No paid app or game has yet exceeded 250,000 sales. Approximately 60 apps were in the 10,000-50,000 sales range, compared to approximately 45 games. It continues from there, with the vast majority of apps and games falling in to the ignominious “less than 50? bucket.
Overall we estimate that $6,000,000 has been paid out to developers for games, and $15,000,000 has been paid out on apps. That is a total of $21,000,000, nearly 1/50th the amount paid out to devs on iPhone.
This really indicates how much of a cottage industry the paid Android Market remains, with insufficient sales numbers to warrant full-time labor for paid content”
(source: Larva Labs with data from Android Zoom)
-Mart