Aptoide
Marketplaces · Mobile Games
Overview
Aptoide is an alternative app store and distribution platform for Android and iOS serving users, developers, device makers and telecom operators. It reports more than 50 million monthly active users, about one million apps and ten distribution partners after 15 years of operation. The company is headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.
Funding and backers
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
2
Golden Gate Ventures, Headline
Momentum
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Last sign of life
1 mo ago
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The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2026
Formerly Aptoide Connect (catappult.io)
Feb 2010
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
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Hiring Momentum
28/100
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Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
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News
Is Aptoide safe? I tried Android's first alternative app store on Google Play - and it's a mess
Aptoide Games just landed in the Play Store - no sideloading required. I tested it, and caution is advised.
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Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US
Aptoide has brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes open Android to competing app stores.
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The first rival Android app store just arrived in the US Play Store
Game store Aptoide is now available through Google's own Android storefront in the US.
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Aptoide Returns to Google Play After More Than a Decade, Opening a New Chapter for Competition on Android
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We tested Aptoide, the first free iPhone app store alternative
The Aptoide iOS game store is an alternative to the App Store in Europe thanks to the DMA that forced Apple to compete.
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Aptoide iOS game store launches this week; wait list of 20,000
An Aptoide iOS game store launches in Europe on Thursday, the third, uh, third-party app store to be announced after...
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Aptoide's iOS game store launches on Thursday
Aptoide is launching a third-party iOS app store in the European Union - the first to focus on gaming since the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules came into effect.
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Tap4Fun launches Age of Apes on Aptoide
/PRNewswire/ -- Tap4Fun, the leading mobile game publisher, has forged a strategic partnership with Aptoide, the premier alternative app store, to integrate...
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Industry leaders Magic Tavern and Aptoide announce strategic new partnership
/PRNewswire/ -- Magic Tavern, the wildly successful mobile game developer and publisher, and Aptoide, the leading alternative app store, today announced a new...
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Alternative Android app store Aptoide has suffered a major data breach
The company says 97 percent of its users aren
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Lisbon
Lisbon
Portugal
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales
R. Soeiro Pereira Gomes 1