Apple releases its first App Store Transparency Report for 2022 revealing the total number of apps that were available to iPhone users at the end of 2022.
If you’re old enough, you might remember when Apple introduced the App Store back on July 10th, 2008 which coincided with the release of the iPhone 3G. The opening of the App Store changed everything and all of a sudden, the iPhone became exponentially more useful. The App Store launched with 500 apps available. By the time Apple was advertising the iPhone 3GS in 2009, the ads were claiming that there were 75,000 apps in the App Store. That doubled to 150,000 apps by February 2010.
And the number kept growing. By 2011, just 34 months since the App Store opened for business, it had over 500,000 apps on the shelves. In 2012, the App Store had 700,000 apps. But by July 2013, the Google Play Store, which started life in 2008 as the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1 (with less than 50 apps) had passed the App Store. The Play Store was the first to hit the one million app mark topping the 900,000 that was then available from the iOS app storefront. Five months later, the App Store finally went over the 1 million app mark.
Apple today released its 2022 App Store Transparency Report that indicated exactly how many apps were available in the App Store by the end of last year. That figure amounted to 1,783,232 apps which is more than 3566 times the number of apps in the App Store when it first launched 14 years before. According to Apple, it removed 186,195 apps from the App Store last year.
