Alternatives to Google Play Store

“Android, Play Store”. This is the mentality of many of us, who when downloading an application Android We access directly to the Google Play Store from our smartphone, but there are other alternatives to download an application.
And there is one thing to keep in mind: not all devices have Play Store Not all applications are approved by GoogleThere are many alternative stores and this is explained by the open nature of the operating system.
Created in 2008 under the name of Android Market, it was not until 2012 when Google changed the entire appearance of its app store, changing its name to what we know today, Google Play StoreWhile a few years ago these alternative markets were somewhat obscure, today they are quite popular.

Amazon Appstore

The e-commerce giant and the cloud computing It has one of the best alternatives known to date for Google Play Store. With presence in Spain For almost five years now, the app store has Amazon has some aces up its sleeve to continue being the best alternative to that of Google.
The main advantage is that there are many games and applications that in the Play Store would be paid, while here they are free, which is a real relief for our pockets (Amazon Underground); Another advantage is its temporary exclusivity, where you can find real bargains.
Many devices Android They come from the factory with the Play Store, but this is not the case for all smartphones, so this would be an interesting time to reflect and think about which option would be best.

Aptoide

Another of the great alternatives to the store Google. Aptoide was born in 2009 as a proposal of Paulo Trezentos, and today has more than 300,000 applications, all of them uploaded by users. One of the defining characteristics of Aptoide is that many of its applications have not been approved by Google Play.
This can be a double-edged sword, since at the same time we can find exclusive applications in the store par excellence of Android, malicious applications can often sneak in, which end up becoming paid applications. And this is where we find the great advantage that it offers Aptoide, where all its applications are free.

F-Droid

If we take all the app stores we have seen so far, F-Droid It would be something like David against Goliath, but it has an essential characteristic: it is a free software oriented store. All applications that we download on F-Droid will be open source.
Also, about the applications, we can download the APK, source code and find out under what kind of license open source are found. Created in 2010 by Ciaran Gultnieks, F-Droid It has a very small catalog of applications (a little less than 2000 apps), and its own application for Android, where we can download and update the applications we have, all presented with an excellent design.

MoboMarket

This is one of the app stores Android safer, although this does not mean that 100% is free of viruses. It currently has more than 100 million users, with at least five million of them active per day.
With a fairly extensive catalogue (800,000 applications), MoboMarket asks users for their location so that we can recommend popular apps, as well as those that we may have in our own language or from the country we are in.

APK Mirror

APK Mirror would be included in this list, but with caution. It is not a typical app store, but a repository created by Android Police where users who use the page will publish the APKs of the most recent versions of the most popular applications in the world.
The speed to update any of the applications that we have on our mobile will make APK Mirror an incredible ally, as well as if we want to download any old version of any application.

UptoDown

A store with origins in Spain. In 2002, Luis Hernandez Garrido and Pepe Dominguez Fernandez founded Uptodown, an application store that does not have an application itself, but rather operates from a web page.
With Uptodown We can download the files directly APK to install in our smartphone or even save them in our own cloud so we can use them whenever we want. Currently, Uptodown is established in various parts of the globe, such as in China, Japan or Indonesia; as well as being available in various languages (English, Portuguese, Italian and German).

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