Today Android is the biggest operating system of the world and still growing from day-to-day. Everyday so many new users enter in the new world of Android and search for various amazing apps and games in the Google Play Market. But if you think Google’s Android market is the only place to find android apps then you should better re-think about it. There are many other markets out there which also provide you with various apps and games you can run on your android device.
No matter what you’re looking for, whether a social networking app, games, free and paid apps or any other kind of app, there are a lot of options of markets for you to search in. Below is the list of “5 best alternatives of Google Play Store”.
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The best recommended and well-known alternative of Google Play Store is the Amazon App Store. Amazon itself launched its Android powered tablet Kindle Fire and made Amazon app store available for Android apps in it. It does not have as many apps as Google Play store has, but it offers a paid premium app for free every day. It currently has about 75,000 Android apps and also known to have better quality control than the Google Play Store. The only problem with Amazon is that it is limited to only U.S., but the good news is that they recently expanded their market to UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.
2. SlideMe:
SlideMe claims to be the best Google Play Alternative in the world. It is available in the places where Google Play Store is not available. It has a strict quality control and every app has to pass it. SlideMe offers various free and paid apps in different categories and one of its big features is that this market is available globally. It also give high percentage of revenue for paid apps to the developers than any other market.
3. GetJar:
According to the GetJar, it (GetJar) is the world’s largest free app store with more than 3.5 billion downloads. You’ll find various categorized apps, both free and paid. Just like Amazon, GetJar also offer a paid app for free, but unlike Amazon, these offers are not for limited period of one day. Also unlike Amazon, it is available everywhere. There is a reward system in GetJar, which can give you access to premium apps for free.
4. Opera App Store:
The Opera App Store came in 2011 when Opera purchased Handster. If you use the Opera browser in your Smartphone or tablet, then you probably already know about its App Store. This store is as default on Opera Mobile’s speed dial page. The apps are categorized by Popular New, Free etc. and about 70% of the apps are free.
5. F-Droid:
If you are looking for a market with only free apps, then F-Droid is the place you should check out. The focus of F-Droid is on free and open source apps. There is a big collection of free apps which guarantee no ads, tracking and dependencies. F-Droid has a great feature that it displays apps in different versions of Android like for Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb etc. allowing you to choose the one which suits your device’s version.
These were the just 5 alternatives of Google Play Market, but there are many other markets too which are worth checking out like Android Pit, 1Mobile Market, AppBrain etc. Also, manufacturers offer their own pre-installed app market with apps related to their device, like Samsung has Samsung App for their device and LG has LG Smart World. If you know any other market which can be a part of 5 best alternative of Google Play Store, than do share with us in comments. Meanwhile, check out the “5 iOS banned apps which are available on Android“.