Google Play market in Malaysia: which categories are open
Categories of Google Play in Malaysia ranked by how easy it is to reach the top 100 free chart. Snapshot of Oct 23, 2026.
2.4Minstalls to enter a top 100 (median)
21%of the top: apps from the last 12 months
9,370local apps
337Mlocal installs
102new local apps in a year
Categories, easiest first
| Category | Top 100 | New in top |
|---|---|---|
| Books & Reference | 25 | 16% |
| Libraries & Demo | 22K | 15% |
| News & Magazines | 36K | 11% |
| Card games | 98K | 14% |
| Shopping | 106K | 10% |
| Lifestyle | 129K | 28% |
| Tools | 144K | 43% |
| Events | 239K | 23% |
| Business | 247K | 6% |
| Entertainment | 254K | 45% |
| Art & Design | 42K | 44% |
| Photography | 1M | 36% |
| Sports games | 1.1M | 14% |
| Board games | 1.6M | 14% |
| Video Players & Editors | 1.9M | 30% |
| Productivity | 2M | 23% |
| Travel & Local | 2.1M | 9% |
| Music & Audio | 2.1M | 26% |
| Finance | 2.2M | 13% |
| Adventure games | 2.4M | 33% |
| Sports | 2.9M | 38% |
| Health & Fitness | 3.8M | 17% |
| Social | 3.8M | 28% |
| Personalization | 4.9M | 38% |
| Maps & Navigation | 5.8M | 25% |
| Education | 6.3M | 21% |
| Strategy games | 7M | 32% |
| Music games | 8.2M | 13% |
| Beauty | 8.3M | 20% |
| Racing games | 19M | 20% |
| Educational games | 26M | 7% |
| Action games | 39M | 21% |
| Role Playing games | 41M | 33% |
| Casino games | 45M | 21% |
| Simulation games | 5M | 32% |
| Arcade games | 51M | 10% |
| Communication | 293M | 20% |
| Casual games | 351M | 40% |
| Puzzle games | 372M | 42% |
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).