Google Play Store has lost nearly half of its apps since early 2024, dropping from 3.4 million to around 1.8 million. The sharp decline follows stricter quality policies that removed low-functionality, spammy, or deceptive apps.

Google has removed a ton of apps from the Google Play Store since early 2024, we're talking about almost half of them here, actually.

Google’s Play Store just went on a massive spring clean. Since the start of 2024, the number of Android apps has dropped from 3.4 million to around 1.8 million, that’s a 47% drop in just a few months,