Evaluating iPhone vs. Android App Storage Needs

Safety Detectives has just completed a research project that focuses on the differences in storage footprints between the top 50 most-downloaded applications on the iOS App Store and their Android counterparts.

Among their many findings:

  • On average, an iOS app is twice the size of its Android counterpart.
  • Apple includes more assets in the base app package while Android apps can split their components into smaller, on-demand modules.
  • After installation and regular use, Android apps grow an average of almost twice the size of their iOS counterparts.
  • Google Gemini has the largest proportional difference, being roughly 40 times larger on iOS.

You’ll find their full research here: https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/app-storage-usage-research/

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