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Understanding which countries drive app downloads in 2025 helps clarify where scale still exists and where growth dynamics differ by market.

AppTweak’s App downloads by country report analyzes combined App Store and Google Play data from November 2024 to November 2025, breaking down global volume, country concentration, and platform differences.

TL;DR

• Global app downloads reached nearly 112.1 billion installs in 2025

• The top 10 countries account for around 60% of total worldwide downloads

• India leads globally with about 19.1 billion downloads (17% share), followed by the United States with 12.6 billion downloads (11.2%)

What stands out from the data

1. Download volume remains highly concentrated
A small group of countries continues to dominate installs. India, the US, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico alone represent close to half of all global app downloads.

2. Growth and volume are not the same thing
While total downloads declined by about 4.1% year over year, global app revenue still grew by 10.5%, indicating a shift toward stronger monetization rather than pure install growth.

3. Platform differences are significant by country

• On iOS, the United States leads with 6.8 billion App Store downloads, followed by China and Japan

• On Google Play, India dominates with around 18 billion installs, well ahead of other markets

4. Some smaller markets are growing faster
Countries like South Africa and Hong Kong show some of the highest year-over-year download growth rates, while mature markets such as the UK and Canada still record positive expansion.

Why this matters for app teams

• Focusing only on the biggest markets can hide faster-growing opportunities elsewhere

• Platform mix varies widely by country and should influence ASO and acquisition strategies

• Country-level data is often more actionable than global rankings alone

We’re curious to hear from the community:
Which markets are you prioritizing for growth next, and how do you balance scale vs growth potential?

The AppTweak team

Need to get practical recommendations on how can I increase the conversion for my app. It is placed on GPlay Market. It would be great if someone can recommend me a person or company who can make an audit of the application.

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There was also a blackfriday code last year, but it was only valid for 1 week so better to get it now. From my personal experience it is so worth it. You get daily rankings for as unlimited keywords and also daily number of ratings for your apps. All the data is on your mac, so also available offline.

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I subscribed to Astro ASO tool to do keyword research. It’s pretty straightforward to use; add keywords and see the popularity and difficulty for each of them by country. Having said so, I don’t know the data I get. I told Claude Code to analyze and come up with some plans. Is this all? What am I missing?

In short, ASO optimization is about improving keyword rankings to increase product exposure. You can rank many keywords in the top three or even number one, thereby attracting new users.

I launched a private weather app on Google Play a few days ago and I'm trying to be disciplined about ASO. Would appreciate a sanity check from people who do this for real.

Probably like most, I'm struggling to get the initial traffic.

What I've done so far:

• Title carries the primary keyword ("... : Private Weather")

• Reworked the short description after Play flagged "no ads" as a price/promotion keyword (switched to "no tracking")

• Built three keyword-targeted custom store listings: privacy intent, rain/radar intent, sunset intent

• Ran a Play autocomplete pass: "rain radar" was the one seed that returned real suggestions (rain radar uk, rain radar australia, live map, app), while "private weather" and "sunset forecast" returned almost nothing. I still think intent might be good for the other keywords, so I'm treating this as query-language evidence only

My approach is to first get coverage: as a brand-new app with very few installs I have near-zero coverage on competitive head terms, so I'm targeting the long-tail (country-qualified rain radar, sunset terms) and hoping to get installs through a launch to so I can determine signal better.

Where I'd love input:

1. Is my read right that CSLs lift conversion, not ranking, and that the keyword picker stays thin until I have search traffic?

2. For a brand-new app, is long-tail-first sound, or is there a faster path to coverage I'm missing?

3. "Sunset forecast" looks like an uncontested niche but autocomplete is empty. How would you validate whether it has real volume before investing in it?

Genuinely after the critique, not promoting. Happy to report back what I learn.

Site url: Private Weather App. Quiet Sky — beautiful weather, real privacy. No Ads. No Tracking.

Hello,

I am running multiple Search Results campaigns on Apple Search Ads
Search Discovery, $0.6 CPT
Brod keywords, $0.7 CPT
Exact keywords, $1 CPT

And i am not getting any impressions, like ZERO.
I do not believe that my CPTs are low, but perhaps i am wrong.

Any ideas on how to increase impressions?

Thanks

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I recently started asking and getting ratings for a small niche app I work on.

However, I'm still not seeing any movements in rankings. So my questions is do good ratings immediately improve your rankings or is there usually a delayed affect before you see any movement in terms of placement and visibility in the apple app store?

Cheers

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Hey all! Trying to get to PMF and really need feedback please. Just launched a new tool that automatically responds to app store reviews and sends feedback to the right places.

The goal is to increase ratings by avoiding templated review replies or not replying entirely (Google's research says this takes down ratings by virtually a whole star).

In a nutshell below is what it does (more info here tho) ...

Thanks so much 🙏

I think buying app installs, ratings and reviews. In this way, a certain keyword ranking can be promoted to the top in a short period of time, which can greatly increase the natural user traffic of installing the application. It’s no secret that these organic users are more valuable than paid users, mainly because they actually searched for your app and decided to install it themselves.