The top 100 subscription apps in the Apple App Store dwarfed user spending on the top 100 subscription apps in the Google Play store. In 2021, global user spending on the leading subscription apps via the App Store amounted to 13.5 billion U.S. dollars, compared to only 4.8 billion dollars of user spending in the Google Play Store.
Annual spending in top subscription apps worldwide from 2019 to 2021, by platform
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Sensor Tower, & TechCrunch. (February 24, 2022). Annual spending in top subscription apps worldwide from 2019 to 2021, by platform (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1206546/subscription-app-revenue-by-store/
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