Google Play market in Philippines: which categories are open
Categories of Google Play in Philippines ranked by how easy it is to reach the top 100 free chart. Snapshot of Oct 23, 2026.
1.1Minstalls to enter a top 100 (median)
23%of the top: apps from the last 12 months
6,084local apps
639Mlocal installs
99new local apps in a year
Categories, easiest first
| Category | Top 100 | New in top |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | 102 | 13% |
| Music & Audio | 5.4K | 32% |
| Maps & Navigation | 15K | 28% |
| Health & Fitness | 15K | 22% |
| Books & Reference | 2K | 14% |
| Libraries & Demo | 22K | 14% |
| Travel & Local | 3K | 14% |
| Sports games | 62K | 14% |
| Business | 7K | 12% |
| Art & Design | 85K | 39% |
| Adventure games | 157K | 31% |
| Shopping | 213K | 10% |
| Dating | 233K | 25% |
| Events | 239K | 23% |
| Simulation games | 371K | 31% |
| Photography | 397K | 34% |
| Tools | 485K | 50% |
| Card games | 536K | 19% |
| Role Playing games | 599K | 39% |
| Productivity | 656K | 23% |
| Entertainment | 936K | 50% |
| Strategy games | 1.2M | 34% |
| Board games | 1.5M | 19% |
| Finance | 1.7M | 19% |
| News & Magazines | 1.8M | 10% |
| Casino games | 4.9M | 46% |
| Casual games | 5.6M | 46% |
| Music games | 7.9M | 12% |
| Word games | 9.2M | 22% |
| Sports | 11M | 26% |
| Personalization | 12M | 40% |
| Communication | 12M | 23% |
| Education | 13M | 22% |
| Trivia games | 14M | 29% |
| Video Players & Editors | 15M | 29% |
| Educational games | 15M | 6% |
| Action games | 2M | 18% |
| Social | 67M | 24% |
| Racing games | 112M | 20% |
| Arcade games | 124M | 14% |
| Lifestyle | 214M | 36% |
| Puzzle games | 372M | 41% |
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).