Application analytics and tracking company Distimo, has recently released its monthly publication for April 2013.
Because of the imminent launch of AppIQ for the Amazon Appstore, that enables you to track estimated downloads and revenues for any app globally, this report focuses on daily estimated downloads and one-off revenues for individual apps in the Amazon Appstore versus Google Play.
Here are some of the report findings:
- The top 200 free applications had a total of sixteen million downloads in March 2013 on the U.S. Amazon’s Appstore with Games as the most downloaded category.
- The most downloaded free application in the U.S. in March 2013 was Temple Run 2 by Imangi Studios, LLC.
- The number of device installs for free applications in Google Play is much higher than they are in the Amazon Appstore. Roughly speaking, Google Play is more than ten times bigger than the Amazon Appstore in the U.S. The number of downloads of some applications vary heavily among the two appstores. The following barchart shows three examples of free applications with their download volume:
- The top 200 paid applications had in total 1.6 million downloads and earned 3 million dollars on one-off fees in March 2013. Mojang‘s Minecraft ““ Pocket Edition claimed the No. 1 position among the top paid apps in the U.S. in March.
- The number of paid device downloads in Google Play is overall two times the number of paid downloads in the Amazon Appstore. Although if you zoom in on the application level you can find examples of applications who perform better in the Amazon Appstore than in Google Play.
- The top publisher based on the number of free downloads, is Rovio Entertainment, Ltd., with its most popular application in March, The Croods, which is also ranked in the top 10 free apps.
- The Amazon Appstore competes aggressively with Google Play in terms of the top 1000 paid applications: the number of paid downloads is roughly twice the size in Google Play. However, when it comes to revenues, the difference is even smaller. The top 200 paid apps in Google Play made $5.1 million, which equated to Google Play being 1.7 times bigger than the Amazon Appstore.
