Google Play market in Germany: which categories are open
Categories of Google Play in Germany ranked by how easy it is to reach the top 100 free chart. Snapshot of Oct 23, 2026.
6.3Minstalls to enter a top 100 (median)
18%of the top: apps from the last 12 months
23,421local apps
52Mlocal installs
107new local apps in a year
Categories, easiest first
| Category | Top 100 | New in top |
|---|---|---|
| News & Magazines | 50 | 7% |
| Parenting | 4.6K | 18% |
| Adventure games | 19K | 32% |
| Medical | 33K | 2% |
| Dating | 47K | 16% |
| Sports | 47K | 25% |
| Auto & Vehicles | 5K | 11% |
| Health & Fitness | 53K | 9% |
| Education | 89K | 17% |
| Books & Reference | 25K | 14% |
| Finance | 307K | 5% |
| Business | 31K | 13% |
| Shopping | 721K | 6% |
| Word games | 1.1M | 20% |
| Photography | 1.3M | 24% |
| Casino games | 2.3M | 29% |
| Strategy games | 2.4M | 32% |
| House & Home | 2.8M | 14% |
| Music games | 3.9M | 9% |
| Music & Audio | 4.5M | 14% |
| Social | 5.2M | 18% |
| Simulation games | 5.6M | 29% |
| Card games | 6.3M | 17% |
| Board games | 6.4M | 20% |
| Casual games | 8.6M | 49% |
| Tools | 8.8M | 32% |
| Racing games | 9.5M | 20% |
| Personalization | 9.9M | 35% |
| Role Playing games | 11M | 32% |
| Maps & Navigation | 12M | 16% |
| Sports games | 12M | 22% |
| Productivity | 12M | 21% |
| Lifestyle | 13M | 16% |
| Weather | 13M | 15% |
| Travel & Local | 13M | 5% |
| Puzzle games | 15M | 47% |
| Trivia games | 17M | 28% |
| Food & Drink | 19M | 11% |
| Art & Design | 22M | 39% |
| Communication | 47M | 18% |
| Entertainment | 48M | 29% |
| Video Players & Editors | 63M | 23% |
| Action games | 72M | 19% |
| Educational games | 98M | 12% |
| Arcade games | 104M | 10% |
How to read it
- Top 100 threshold
- Installs of the app at position 100 of a category's free chart: roughly what it takes to get in. For a country, the median across its categories.
- New in top
- Share of the top 200 released in the last 12 months: do newcomers break through?
- Local in top
- Share of the top 200 offered in no more than 3 countries: do local apps win, or global giants?
- Local apps
- Live apps offered only in this country (and at most two others).