Over 7,800 apps available as of today!

[rbf]

7,873 is the number as of today. Looks like 459 were added in the last 24 hrs. Here is the link to the article I found on window8update.com. ~ rbf

Over 7800 apps in the Windows Store today |

 

[berty6294]

YAY! I bet that by Friday there will be over 10,000 apps!

 

[mparker]

Not sure how they're counting them, but I just checked and found only 5005 apps of all types (desktop, WinRT x86, and WinRT ARM). Some of these categories contain almost entirely traditional desktop apps.

Games - 868
Social - 128
Entertainment - 578
Photo & Video - 129
Music - 157
Sports - 156
Books & Reference - 246
News & Weather - 404
Health & Fitness - 122
Food & Dining - 120
Lifestyle - 195
Shopping - 55
Travel - 215
Finance - 73
Productivity - 303
Tools - 533
Security - 30
Business - 85
Education - 585
Government - 23

 

[pedenske]

Not sure how they're counting them, but I just checked and found only 5005 apps of all types (desktop, WinRT x86, and WinRT ARM). Some of these categories contain almost entirely traditional desktop apps.

Games - 868
Social - 128
Entertainment - 578
Photo & Video - 129
Music - 157
Sports - 156
Books & Reference - 246
News & Weather - 404
Health & Fitness - 122
Food & Dining - 120
Lifestyle - 195
Shopping - 55
Travel - 215
Finance - 73
Productivity - 303
Tools - 533
Security - 30
Business - 85
Education - 585
Government - 23

Thats the global app count, whihch means not all apps are available in all regions. In your case only ~5000 are available in your region

 

[RTS2]

Does this include apps that are approved but not yet launched? If so the number will easily hit 10,000+ as I am sure there are numerous companies that have apps available and approved but are delaying launch until the 26th

 

[smoledman]

Pretty sure 50K apps by Dec 31st and 100K apps by April 31st, 2013!

 

[VagrantWade]

Not sure how they're counting them, but I just checked and found only 5005 apps of all types (desktop, WinRT x86, and WinRT ARM). Some of these categories contain almost entirely traditional desktop apps.

Games - 868
Social - 128
Entertainment - 578
Photo & Video - 129
Music - 157
Sports - 156
Books & Reference - 246
News & Weather - 404
Health & Fitness - 122
Food & Dining - 120
Lifestyle - 195
Shopping - 55
Travel - 215
Finance - 73
Productivity - 303
Tools - 533
Security - 30
Business - 85
Education - 585
Government - 23

Some regions are locked out from others in the RTM.