You've just written a great Android app and you're ready to make some money from
it. The most common route is probably to pay $25 to get it listed on Google Play. However, there are many alternatives to Google Play, each with their own audience that can drive more downloads.
Some of these app stores are catered to a smaller audience while others are more localized. Most of them don't charge you for listing your app on their store. It can therefore pay off to publish your app in several app stores.
1. Amazon Appstore
Meet one of Google's greatest competitors, Amazon. Amazon offers the Kindle Fire and, more recently, the Fire Phone, Android powered devices that run a custom flavor of Android, Fire OS. Despite the custom operating system, a large chunk of Android apps will run fine on Fire OS. If yours doesn't, then it will probably only take a few tweaks to get it up and running.
You can also publish HTML5 and web apps on the Amazon Appstore. It currently contains more than 240,000 apps and they have a free app of the day feature. Take a look at Amazon's developer portal to get started.
2. SlideME
One of the oldest Android app marketplaces, older than Google Play, SlideME is installed on more than half of Android devices without Google Play. SlideMe takes a fee of 20% and offers a wide range of payment options, including PayPal, which Google Play doesn't offer. In some cases, putting your Android app for sale on SlideME can result in more downloads than you'd get on Google Play, so it's definitely worth a try.
3. 1Mobile Market
1Mobile Market only accepts free apps, but that doesn't mean you should discard it as an alternative to Google Play. Uploading apps is free, but there is an approval process your app has to pass through. This shouldn't be an issue as long as your app doesn't contain malware.
1Mobile Market claims to have more than 100 million installs with more than 800,000 apps listed. Users are offered recommendations based on their preferences, which is great to discover new apps.
4. Samsung Galaxy Apps
Samsung is the biggest manufacturer of Android phones and it also has it's own app store, Samsung Galaxy Apps. It is installed on all Samsung Galaxy series devices and therefore has a large user base. The only downside is the fairly small number of apps available on the store, about 13,000 in 2011.
5. Mobile9
Mobile9 has more than 40 million active users, so it's another option worth considering. Users can share and comment on the apps they have installer, similar to a social network for apps. Another upside is that publishing apps is free. With more than 200 million downloads per month and only 30,000 developers, it's definitely worth a try.
6. Opera Mobile Store
Publishing apps is free on the Opera Mobile Store, but developers only get 70% of the revenue from paid apps. Opera has an agreement with Yandex, Russia's biggest search engine, which allows Opera's apps to be shown in the Yandex App Store and vice versa. There are around 200,000 apps and the store receives more than 100 million visitors per month with 2 million apps downloaded per day.
7. Mobango
Publishing apps on Mobango is also free. With millions of users and top apps generating thousands of downloads every day, Mobango is a good choice for publishing your app. There are currently 100,000 apps in the Mobango app store.
8. Soc.io Mall
Soc.io Mall's tagline is "The Android Mall that Loves Developers". It offers high revenue share, 80/20, and listing your app is free. It currently has less than 10,000 apps, but the marketplace isn't limited to apps, users can also buy games, ebooks, and the offering will soon also include music, videos, and audiobooks. The number of active users isn't as high as other app stores, but competition is also much lower.
9. F-droid
F-droid contains only free and open source apps. You can download apps from the official website or through the official F-droid app. The F-droid app automatically updates every app you've installed through F-droid. The platform is maintained by volunteers and relies on donations to pay the bills. Every app on F-droid must have an Apache or GNU open source license. Apps that include paid add-ons or advertisements are allowed, but are not displayed by default.
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10. GetJar
GetJar has more than 30 million users and includes a recommendation service, similar to that of 1Mobile. It claims to have 3 million downloads a day, with 70,000 apps in its app store. It encourages developers to use a freemium model, displaying ads and using in-app currency instead of charging for the app.They also offer the largest virtual currency on Google Play, GetJar Gold, which is available to more than 100 million users.
Conclusion
There are many alternative app stores on which you can sell you Android application, with each store having its pros and cons. Although neither of these can replace the Google Play, they can certainly drive more downloads and expose your apps to more potential customers. And since you can list your apps for free in these stores, it doesn't hurt to spend a bit of time to investigate these alternatives.
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Hey,
I have a question regarding to in app purchase system.
The google developer program policy says about in app purchase:
"Paid and Free Applications
• App purchases: Developers charging for applications and downloads from Google Play must do so by using Google Play's payment system.
• In-app purchases: Developers offering additional content, services or functionality within an application downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play's payment system as the method of payment, except:
o where payment is primarily for physical goods or services (e.g. buying movie tickets; e.g. buying a publication where the price also includes a hard copy subscription); or
o where payment is for digital content or goods that may be consumed outside of the application itself (e.g. buying songs that can be played on other music players)
Developers must not mislead users about the applications they are selling nor about any in-app services, goods, content or functionality they are selling."
The sentence I mark in red says that if I as owner of application, sell a package of notification with some information that the user need another app or program to actually use the information I can use another in app purchase system (i.e. paypal).
My question is:
Is the sentence in blue right?
Thanks in advance,
Shalom Melamed
Apple's iTunes affiliate program provides an incentive for bloggers, media outlets, other website owners and individuals to push traffic to iTunes and increase app/song purchases.
It seems as though an affiliate program for Android would serve Google in a number of ways including
1) more app purchases where Google keeps a revenue split
2) increased traffic to Google Checkout
3) solidify Google's Android market as the central place for apps vs. other upstart 3rd party markets
4) generate AdWords spend and
5) increased traffic to the Android market that could lead to better apps and a better overall Android experience relative to the iPhone.
:laugh:
Then Why doesn't Google have an affiliate program for the Android market?
Perhaps you should explain what apples affiliate program is and how it works in op
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9harsh9 said:
Apple's iTunes affiliate program provides an incentive for bloggers, media outlets, other website owners and individuals to push traffic to iTunes and increase app/song purchases.
It seems as though an affiliate program for Android would serve Google in a number of ways including
1) more app purchases where Google keeps a revenue split
2) increased traffic to Google Checkout
3) solidify Google's Android market as the central place for apps vs. other upstart 3rd party markets
4) generate AdWords spend and
5) increased traffic to the Android market that could lead to better apps and a better overall Android experience relative to the iPhone.
:laugh:
Then Why doesn't Google have an affiliate program for the Android market?
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Since the person posting affiliate links, reaps some kind of benefit (typically a % of the sale), affiliate links are against xda rules on making commercial posts. If google started an affiliate program and it wasn't easy to recognize the affiliate links from non-affiliate links to the play store, then probably all links to the play store would have to be removed from xda...
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##1 GetJar App Store
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With more than 2 billion downloads to date and around 395,000 registered app developers and publishers, GetJar is the largest independent app store on the Internet today. Its substantial Android app offering alone (around 350,000 apps) can easily rival that on the Google Play market. These figures should give publishers a good idea of how effective GetJar is as an app distribution platform.
GetJar features a reward and virtual currency system known as GetJar Reward and GetJar Gold respectively. GetJar rewards allow users to earn reward points for personally recommending apps. These rewards can be used to purchase app upgrades, themes, and unlocks. The more users are rewarded, the more they will recommend your app to other users. GetJar Gold (earned every time a user downloads a new app) is a virtual currency that can be used to purchase premium apps. These reward systems, along with GetJar’s cross-platform compatibility, make it a top choice when looking for indie app stores to publish apps on.
##2 Amazon App Store
The Amazon app store offers apps exclusively for Android and is a nicely presented site that features many of the most popular Android apps, including Angry Birds, Twitter, Fruit Ninja, Shazam, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to name but a few. It offers in total over 4,000 apps. As of March 2012, Amazon’s App store has overtaken Google Play and claimed the no. 2 spot in app store revenue generation (bested only by the iTunes store)...
Most apps in the Amazon store are also available on the Android market, but Amazon provides access to another very large market of users. The Amazon App Store is easy to browse with simple access to ratings, reviews and screenshots by way of an Android handset simulator. One feature that sets this webstore head and shoulders above the rest is it offers a try-before-you-buy scheme, allowing your app to be tried out for size before purchasing by your prospective customers, a great way to ensure sales...!
##3 AndSpot App Store
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The AndSpot App Store is an independent mobile application store that utilises social network sites to help users find apps that they really are interested in. AndSpot provides social networking features like activity feeds, profiles and recommendations so users can find apps based on what their friends like instead of searching through endless categories. Established in July 2010, AndSpot also offers a discussion board where users can discuss apps and features excellent privacy settings, allowing users to choose whether they want to share their apps or not, depending on which category they come under. It also offers a very competitive eighty percent of the revenue from their apps sold through its app store and developers don’t have to do anything additional to publish their apps on AndSpot...
##4 Appolicious App Store
Appolicious is an app store that allows the user to discover and share the latest and best iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android apps through social recommendations as well as user reviews and extra input from the Appolicious editorial team. The team posts ten new app articles per day with two video reviews. The site will make suggestions based on the apps that the user currently owns and the apps that the users followers own. Appolicious are a completely independent company, founded in 2009 and are not affiliated in any way with any mobile provider or app developer, ensuring an unbiased recommendation is always made....
##5 Crackberry App Store
CrackBerry deals exclusively with apps for the Blackberry market and is geared toward BlackBerry “users and abusers”. The site includes a "crack team” of bloggers who provide BlackBerry news, rumours, tips and reviews. With an almost slavish approach to the brand, the store even lists celebrity sightings of the mobile device. The site also offers software, games, ringtone and other downloads for BlackBerry users, and the user c...
Hi there,
This is not the place to be posting this sort of stuff. For one thing, it's a copy & paste of the below linked article. No credit is given to the original author.
http://blog.tapstream.com/post/39486070435/top-5-independent-app-stores-to-publish-your-app
Second, this is the apps & games forum. It is a forum to post yep, you guessed it, developers & users to post apps and games. Please refrain from these sort of posts in the future. This thread is closed.
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