There are about 400, 000 apps in the Windows Phone store, but search remains an issue

Microsoft had begun to combine the app-count of both the Windows and Windows Phone stores a while ago, and when we check the numbers now, we can see that there is an increase. The combined app store now has a total of 585,000 apps, all though I’d say this number has risen by a bit. While there may be a bit of an overlap between the two stores, I’d imagine the app store and Play store suffer from this as well with the further addition of *lite* and *pro* apps to replicate the native trial functionality developers enjoy on Windows.

Breaking out the app count is quite trivial, there is a website that allows you to see how many apps there are in the Windows 8 store here. As of writing this, there were 194k apps. (193k yesterday). Subtracting this number from the combined total gives a number of 391k apps, and that’s assuming the Windows Phone store has stayed static (spoiler alert- it hasn’t)

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