OpenStore Stats for 2025

bhdouglass

The tradition of OpenStore stats continues! As with last year we've seen steady growth, especially with efforts to bring forward apps from Xenial to Focal & Nobel (big thanks to Weston Howard on that!). The OpenStore itself has had several improvements, especially around the new website. Overall a very positive year for Ubuntu Touch!

App Types

828 Apps (+131 this year)
543 Web Apps (-2 this year)
1371 (+129 this year)

Architectures

995 apps are architecture agnostic
197 support amd64
322 support arm64
314 support armhf

Heaviest Clicks

Doc Viewer @ 212M (last year's #1)
Dead Ascend @ 189M
uWolf @ 175M
SuperTux @ 172M
Chromium for UT @ 158M
Signal UT @ 155M

Published/Updated

146 new apps published in 2025
260 apps updated in 2025

Most Thumbs Up Ratings

TELEports @ 180 thumbs up ratings (last year's #1)
OpenStore @ 142 thumbs up ratings
UT Tweak Tool @ 131 thumbs up ratings
Dekko 2 @ 112 thumbs up ratings
Webber @ 91 thumbs up ratings

Most Happy Ratings

Dekko 2 @ 37 happy ratings (last year's #1)
TELEports @ 36 happy ratings
Axolotl @ 22 happy ratings
OpenStore @ 21 happy ratings
uNav @ 20 happy ratings

Most Buggy Ratings

Axolotl @ 29 buggy ratings
Dekko 2 @ 22 buggy ratings
Teleports @ 19 buggy ratings
Camera @ 17 buggy ratings
SuperTux @ 17 buggy ratings

Most Highly Rated (Aggregate)

TELEports (last year's #1)
OpenStore
UT Tweak Tool
Dekko 2
Pure Maps

Most Downloads (All Time & All Versions)

OpenStore @ 489,883 downloads (last year's #1)
Calculator @ 275,726 downloads
Weather @ 194,313 downloads
Notes @ 160,206 downloads
Terminal @ 158,725 downloads

Most Downloads - Non-Preinstalled Apps (All Time & All Versions)

UT Tweak Tool @ 135,267 downloads (last year's #1)
uNav @ 111,842 downloads
TELEports @ 110,243 downloads
Pure Maps @ 97,014 downloads
YouTube @ 75,479 downloads

Authors With the Most Apps (Apps Only)

Weston Howard @ 53 apps
Joan CiberSheep @ 37 apps (last year's #1)
Mateo Salta @ 31 apps
UBports @ 27 apps
Lionel Duboeuf @ 20 apps
Brian Douglass @ 18 apps

Most Popular License

GNU GPL v3 @ 732 apps (last year's #1)
GNU LGPL v3 @ 111 apps
Proprietary @ 105 apps
Creative Commons - No Rights Reserved @ 104 apps
MIT/X/Expat License @ 98 apps

Most Revisions

nymea:app @ 887 revisions (last year's #1)
SuperTux @ 754 revisions
OpenStore@ 197 revisions
Strum Reader @ 173 revisions
Kaidan @ 149 revisions

Latest OpenStore Downloads (Estimates the number of devices in use)

v3.6.2

Focal arm64 @ 2,532 downloads
Focal amd64 @ 47 downloads
Focal armhf @ 93 downloads
Focal total @ 2,672 downloads

v3.6.1

Focal arm64 @ 9,288 downloads
Focal amd64 @ 644 downloads
Focal armhf @ 1,202 downloads
Focal total @ 11,134 downloads

Xenial v3.5.1

Xenial arm64 @ 13,065 downloads
Xenial amd64 @ 184 downloads
Xenial armhf @ 9,939 downloads
Xenial total @ 23,188 downloads

alaskalinuxuser

Thanks for posting the stats! Looks like 2025 was a great year for UT! Here's looking forward to another great year in 2026!

danfro

Is it my bad math, or should +131 -1 = +130, not +129 in the very first paragraph?

bhdouglass

@danfro nope! Apparently it should have been -2 instead of -1. I've updated it in the original post.

Caedem

This btw is also why I'm not so happy on the "dump xenial" train, there are more xenial devices than both focal and noble combined

Funny seeing 47 focal amd64 downloads lol

Maintaining 53 apps... That blows my mind

danfro

@Caedem likely not how it works. The 3.5.1 was the last xenial release. Those 9k focal devices, are those who moved from xenial to focal. So there would be a bit less than 4k xenial left with numbers shrinking.

And we need to drop them for security reasons at some point. Or can you justify providing a unmaintained insecure system? Also some older devices will simply die due to hardware breaking.