Google Play Store ASO with App Update Frequency Statistics 2023
- Last update: 18 Jun 2023 CET
Every week 272 of top 1000 mobile apps are updated on Google Play Store. That means 27% of the top 1000 apps are updated minimum once per week.
Every month 635 of the top 1000 Android apps are updated on Google Play Store. 63% of the top 1000 apps are updated at minimum once per month.
The following shows the number of updates per month of the top 1000 apps.
Every year 920 of top 1000 Android apps are updated on Google Play Store. That means 92% of the top 1000 Android apps get updated at least once per year.
App update frequency varies by day of the week, with being the most popular day to release updates on Google Play Store and being the least popular. Here's a breakdown of the average number of updates released by day of the week for the top 1,000 Android apps.
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The first is the 42matters App Market Explorer (AME). The ultimate app market research tool, it enables users to visually survey every app, game, and publisher available on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.
The AME provides in-depth, near real-time insights into everything from the software development kits (SDK) apps have deployed to the metadata they’ve stored. Moreover, the AME tracks every changelog for every app, facilitating a comprehensive view of developer activity.
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App update frequency data enables developers to know their competition. As the Chinese military philosopher Sun Tzu famously wrote in The Art of War: if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you’ll forgive us this platitude, you’ll realize it’s no less applicable to the mobile app industry today as it was to warfare in the sixth century BC.
Consider the meteoric rise of the mobile app industry. App publishers are under immense pressure to release apps that not only capture enough interest to generate downloads but also high, sustainable daily active usage. This means they’re incessantly jockeying for a leg up on their direct and indirect market competitors, as well as on established global social media giants like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
In such a landscape, any advantage that a team of mobile app publishers can gain is a pretty big deal. So, developing an understanding of what their rivals are up to can be a game changer.
With app update frequency data, app creators can craft their update release schedules to be more competitive with their biggest rivals by being either more or less aggressive with the rollout of their own updates. Moreover, in doing so, they’ll be in a better position to allocate precious time and company resources, and reap the benefits of improved operational efficiency.
Simply put, app update data enables ad networks to separate the wheat from the chaff.
In September 2019, we wrote an article about the various ways ad networks can leverage our data to generate leads. In it, we noted that mobile advertising is one of the hottest markets in the ad industry and that total digital ad spend would soon reach well over $300 billion a year.
For mobile ad networks, this was old news. They know better than anyone just how competitive the mobile advertising market has become in recent years. And, with no obvious indication that competition is about to wane, they’re also aware that they’ll need to step up their lead generation processes to remain relevant.
To help ad networks improve and economize their lead qualification, app update frequency data facilitates thorough, accurate app publisher background checks. By reviewing app publisher update histories, they can determine the ideal apps on which to serve ads, and those they ought to blacklist.
