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AppCurves
The exact Google Play download count, recorded daily
Google Play shows "1,000,000,000+". The exact counter sits behind that band, and Google overwrites it every day. AppCurves reads it every night for every app on a Play chart — 203 markets, 54 categories, Top Free, Paid and Grossing — and keeps every reading. Free, no account.
Hi PH — I'm the one person behind this.
Every Google Play listing carries an exact install counter in its page data, but the store only ever shows a rounded band: "1,000,000,000+". And it overwrites that exact figure every day — nobody keeps yesterday's.
Since Aug 4 I've been reading that counter once a night and never throwing a reading away. The base is Google's own charts: every app that appears on a Top Free, Top Paid or Top Grossing chart in any of 203 markets, across all 54 categories, gets read — plus any app you look up or follow. That's the whole product: the number behind the band, and how it moves.
What it is not, so nobody is surprised: – Not an estimate. Nothing is modelled. The figure is Google's own, copied from the listing, with the date we took it. – No per-country downloads. Google doesn't publish them, so nobody honestly has them. Per-country chart positions, yes — 203 markets nightly. – No iOS. Apple publishes no counter. – It will not match your Play Console. Those are different measurements and Google publishes no mapping — the FAQ says so up front.
Reading is free with no account. Following an app puts it in the nightly queue. Pro ($9/mo) adds a morning mail on days something moved, 100 follows, and an API with every reading.
The most useful thing you can do: pick an app you know and tell me if the number looks wrong. Every reading is kept, so I can check it against what we recorded that night.
About AppCurves on Product Hunt
“The exact Google Play download count, recorded daily”
AppCurves was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #57 on the daily leaderboard. Google Play shows "1,000,000,000+". The exact counter sits behind that band, and Google overwrites it every day. AppCurves reads it every night for every app on a Play chart — 203 markets, 54 categories, Top Free, Paid and Grossing — and keeps every reading. Free, no account.
On the analytics side, AppCurves competes within Android, Developer Tools and Data & Analytics — topics that collectively have 583.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how AppCurves performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted AppCurves?
AppCurves was hunted by AppCurves. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of AppCurves including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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