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Summary
| Apps | avg. Price | avg. Perms | Groups | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14,051 | EUR 0.52 | 9.3 | 1,143 | 251 |
App Stores Statistics
| Statistic | Apps | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| All apps listed at IzzyOnDroid | 14051 | 100.00% |
| Apps on Google Play | 11013 | 78.38% |
| Apps on alternative Markets | 9423 | 67.06% |
| Apps on IzzyOnDroid | 381 | 2.71% |
| Apps on F-Droid | 1032 | 7.34% |
| Apps on Aptoide | 8549 | 60.84% |
| Apps on Xposed | 259 | 1.84% |
| Apps only on IzzyOnDroid | 125 | 0.89% |
| Apps on IzzyOnDroid but not on Google Play | 157 | 1.12% |
| Apps on F-Droid but not on Google Play | 429 | 3.05% |
| Apps on Aptoide but not on Google Play | 2148 | 15.29% |
| Apps on Xposed but not on Google Play | 237 | 1.69% |
| Apps on IzzyOnDroid and on Google Play | 224 | 1.59% |
| Apps on F-Droid and on Google Play | 603 | 4.29% |
| Apps on F-Droid and on Aptoide | 563 | 4.01% |
| Apps on Aptoide and on Google Play | 6401 | 45.56% |
| Apps on Xposed and on Google Play | 22 | 0.16% |
| Apps on Google Play but neither on F-Droid nor Aptoide | 4424 | 31.49% |
| Apps on all 3 markets (w/o Xposed) | 415 | 2.95% |
| Apps with direct download links | 9115 | 64.87% |
| Apps currently offline (might be removed temporarily) | 427 | 3.04% |
App Update Statistics
| Name | Apps | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| last updated more than 2 years ago | 4939 | 35.15% |
| last updated 1..2 years ago | 2157 | 15.35% |
| last updated 6..12 month ago | 1468 | 10.45% |
| updated within the last 6 month | 5054 | 35.97% |
| no release date information | 16 | 0.11% |
| currently unavailable at all | 427 | 3.04% |
| average time since last update | 22 months (667 days) | |
| average time since last update check | 1 weeks (10 days) | |
Ratings of apps not updated for 2 years or more
| Rating | Apps | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 254 | 1.81% |
| <2 | 18 | 0.13% |
| 2-3 | 197 | 1.40% |
| 3-4 | 1,699 | 12.09% |
| 4-5 | 2,771 | 19.72% |
| All | 4,939 | 35.15% |
App price stats
| Name | Apps | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| free | 12,617 | 89.79% |
| ≤ 0.50 € | 20 | 0.14% |
| 0.51 € … 1.00 € | 163 | 1.16% |
| 1.01 € … 5.00 € | 945 | 6.73% |
| 5.01 € … 10.00 € | 199 | 1.42% |
| 10.01 € and up | 107 | 0.76% |
App size stats
| Name | Apps | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| 0..100k | 4,881 | 34.74% |
| 100..500k | 392 | 2.79% |
| 500k..1M | 391 | 2.78% |
| 1..10M | 5,267 | 37.48% |
| 10..50M | 2,709 | 19.28% |
| 50M+ | 411 | 2.93% |
Top 5 categories by average app size
| Category | Avg. app size | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Remote Drives | 29.5 M |
| 2 | Virtual Reality | 24.2 M |
| 3 | Home Banking | 24.2 M |
| 4 | Video Editing | 23.6 M |
| 5 | Room Planning | 22.9 M |
Bottom 5 categories by average app size
| Category | Avg. app size | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CarrierIQ | 85.8 k |
| 2 | Canteen Plans | 633.5 k |
| 3 | Logcat & Co. | 788.2 k |
| 4 | Various other barcode apps | 1.2 M |
| 5 | External GPS | 1.2 M |
Hint: We currently have 246 permissions recorded.
Top 5 permission-hungry Apps
| App | # Perms | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VirtualXposed | 108 |
| 2 | Parallel Space - Multiple accounts & Two face | 106 |
| 3 | Parallel Space - 64Bit Support | 101 |
| 4 | Appcloner-clone app & double or multiple accounts | 97 |
| 5 | SureMDM Mobile Device Management - 42Gears MDM | 79 |
Top 5 categories by Permissions per App
| Category | avg. Perms/App | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Personal Assistants (Competition to Siri & Google Now) | 24.1 |
| 2 | Cheap Calls | 23.0 |
| 3 | Manage your Android Device from your Computer | 22.2 |
| 4 | Toggle Switches | 20.2 |
| 5 | Child protection | 20.1 |
Top 5 most requested Permissions
| Permission | Apps | Pct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTERNET | 12,082 | 86.0% |
| 2 | ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | 11,114 | 79.1% |
| 3 | WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE | 9,051 | 64.4% |
| 4 | READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE | 8,400 | 59.8% |
| 5 | WAKE_LOCK | 8,388 | 59.7% |
Top 5 bogus permissions
Permissions which don't exist but are still requested by several apps. These won't do any harm (as the Android system cannot grant them anyway), but show that sometimes not all permissions an app requests are really needed by it (e.g. when it is misspelled, the real one probably wasn't needed either for the app's functionality). Also see Strange permissions in several apps at StackOverflow.
| Permission | Comments | Apps | Pct | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION | pre-Android-1.0 and long obsolete | 29 | 0.2% |
| 2 | android.permission.QUICKBOOT_POWERON | This is not a permission but an intent (android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON) | 23 | 0.2% |
| 3 | android.permission.ACTION_MANAGE_OVERLAY_PERMISSION | This is no permission, but an action to call in order to obtain one | 15 | 0.1% |
| 4 | android.permission.BROADCAST_PACKAGE_REPLACED | probably wrongly deduced from BROADCAST_PACKAGE_ADDED and BROADCAST_PACKAGE_REMOVED | 10 | 0.1% |
| 5 | android.permission.BROADCAST_PACKAGE_CHANGED | probably wrongly deduced from BROADCAST_PACKAGE_ADDED and BROADCAST_PACKAGE_REMOVED | 8 | 0.1% |
Top 5 unknown permissions
Permissions not (yet) recorded in our Permission List. These include e.g. permissions introduced with a new Android version, permissions declared by third-party-apps or manufacturers (to protect access to APIs they might provide), and non-existing permissions (spelling errors, fantasy – see Bogus Permissions above).
| Permission | Apps | Pct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | com.htc.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS | 397 | 2.8% |
| 2 | com.sonyericsson.home.permission.BROADCAST_BADGE | 380 | 2.7% |
| 3 | com.htc.launcher.permission.UPDATE_SHORTCUT | 374 | 2.7% |
| 4 | com.majeur.launcher.permission.UPDATE_BADGE | 355 | 2.5% |
| 5 | com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS | 347 | 2.5% |
Hint: We currently have 14 concerns recorded.
Top 5 concerned Apps
| App | # Concerns | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GO Launcher - 3D parallax Themes & HD Wallpapers | 14 |
| 2 | AMC Security - Clean & Boost & Antivirus | 14 |
| 3 | VirtualXposed | 14 |
| 4 | GO SMS Pro - Messenger, Free Themes, Emoji | 14 |
| 5 | Genie | 14 |
Top 5 categories by Concerns per App
| Category | avg. Concerns/App | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Personal Assistants (Competition to Siri & Google Now) | 8.0 |
| 2 | Cheap Calls | 6.8 |
| 3 | Personal Protection (Emergency Alerts) | 6.0 |
| 4 | Short Messages | 6.0 |
| 5 | Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Theft | 5.7 |
Top 5 Concerns
| Concern | Apps | Pct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | network_access | 12,265 | 87.3% |
| 2 | location | 4,373 | 31.1% |
| 3 | recording | 3,453 | 24.6% |
| 4 | ident | 2,773 | 19.7% |
| 5 | accounts | 2,395 | 17.0% |
Apps glued to the Google Ecosystem
Calculated by requests to permissions granted by Google-Apps (see Google Glue in this sites help pages).
As this does not cover everything (and our permission list definitely is incomplete), the real number probably is higher. Note that CHECK_LICENSE can
be a show-stopper if you don't have the original GApps installed on your device, as then licence check won't work and the app most likely refuse to run.
Same applies to apps with google.MAPS_RECEIVE, which most likely even refuse to install. Everything else might just limit the app's functionality.
| Name | Apps | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| All | 7,510 | 53.45% |
| Hard glued | 1,305 | 9.29% |
| vending.CHECK_LICENSE | 1,036 | 7.37% |
| vending.BILLING | 3,122 | 22.22% |
| Google Cloud Messaging | 5,543 | 39.45% |
| Google Maps API | 286 | 2.04% |
| Google Authentication | 16 | 0.11% |
| Others | 1,492 | 10.62% |
Analytics and Ad Modules
| Name | Apps | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage: 13143 out of | 14051 | 93.54% |
| All Apps with library data | 13143 | 100.00% |
| All with Trackers | 8501 | 64.68% |
| All with intrusive Trackers | 8372 | 63.70% |
| All with Ads | 5749 | 43.74% |
| All with intrusive Ads | 5448 | 41.45% |
| Paid Apps | 1382 | 10.52% |
| Paid with Trackers | 523 | 37.84% |
| Paid with intrusive Trackers | 518 | 37.48% |
| Paid with Ads | 256 | 18.52% |
| Paid with intrusive Ads | 248 | 1.89% |
| Firebase | 5886 | 44.78% |
| GoogleAds | 3657 | 27.82% |
| Crashlytics | 3377 | 25.69% |
| DoubleClick | 2969 | 22.59% |
| GA | 2873 | 21.86% |
| AdMob | 2244 | 17.07% |
| FacebookLogin | 1530 | 11.64% |
| FacebookShare | 1412 | 10.74% |
| FacebookAnalytics | 1249 | 9.50% |
| 1053 | 8.01% | |
| FacebookAds | 930 | 7.08% |
| FacebookPlaces | 864 | 6.57% |
| Flurry | 687 | 5.23% |
| MoPub | 483 | 3.67% |
| inMobi | 477 | 3.63% |
| AppsFlyer | 385 | 2.93% |
| Mixpanel | 195 | 1.48% |
| Millennia | 192 | 1.46% |
| Chartboost | 120 | 0.91% |
| StartApp | 107 | 0.81% |
| Smaato | 87 | 0.66% |
| Tapjoy | 80 | 0.61% |
| Umeng | 79 | 0.60% |
| MobFox | 37 | 0.28% |
| Tealium | 16 | 0.12% |
| CallDorado | 16 | 0.12% |
| FacebookAccountKit | 14 | 0.11% |
| Avocarrot | 9 | 0.07% |
| Sense360 | 9 | 0.07% |
| Airpush | 6 | 0.05% |
| AdMarvel | 5 | 0.04% |
| mobileCore | 5 | 0.04% |
| Mobclix | 4 | 0.03% |
| LeadBolt | 4 | 0.03% |
| RevMob | 2 | 0.02% |
| DynamicYield | 1 | 0.01% |
1 apps with library count | 20 | 0.01% |
1 apps with library count | 18 | 0.01% |
5 apps with library count | 17 | 0.04% |
12 apps with library count | 16 | 0.09% |
17 apps with library count | 15 | 0.13% |
27 apps with library count | 14 | 0.21% |
39 apps with library count | 13 | 0.30% |
58 apps with library count | 12 | 0.44% |
92 apps with library count | 11 | 0.70% |
117 apps with library count | 10 | 0.89% |
202 apps with library count | 9 | 1.54% |
293 apps with library count | 8 | 2.23% |
412 apps with library count | 7 | 3.13% |
369 apps with library count | 6 | 2.81% |
581 apps with library count | 5 | 4.42% |
1122 apps with library count | 4 | 8.54% |
1504 apps with library count | 3 | 11.44% |
1863 apps with library count | 2 | 14.17% |
1840 apps with library count | 1 | 14.00% |
Top 5 categories by average mod count
| Category | avg. Mods/App | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TV Guides | 6.3 |
| 2 | Buy a Car | 6.2 |
| 3 | Music Identification | 6.2 |
| 4 | Buy & Sell: eBay & Classified Ads | 6.1 |
| 5 | Flights and Hotels | 6.1 |
Various Stats
| Name | Apps | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Apps downloadable free of cost | 12617 | 89.79% |
| Free apps with CHECK_LICENSE permission | 503 | 3.58% |
| Free apps with in-app billing (“Freemium”) | 3004 | 21.38% |
| Payed apps with in-app billing (“Peemium?”) | 118 | 0.84% |
| Apps requesting no permission at all | 625 | 4.45% |
| Apps requesting 1-5 permissions | 4131 | 29.40% |
| Apps requesting 6-10 permissions | 4520 | 32.17% |
| Apps requesting 11 to 20 permissions | 3807 | 27.09% |
| Apps requesting 21 to 30 permissions | 733 | 5.22% |
| Apps requesting more than 30 permissions | 235 | 1.67% |
| Apps with no permission concerns | 1593 | 11.34% |
| Apps with 1-5 permission concerns | 11343 | 80.73% |
| Apps with 6-10 permission concerns | 1025 | 7.29% |
| Apps with more than 10 permission concerns | 90 | 0.64% |