Tencent Appstore

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Tencent Appstore, known in Chinese as 应用宝 (Yingyongbao), is Tencent’s Android app store in China. It launched around 2012 to offer apps and games to Chinese users, where Google Play is limited. It competes with Huawei AppGallery, Xiaomi’s Mi App Store, and Baidu App Store. The store benefits from Tencent’s ecosystem, especially WeChat and QQ, which helps it reach a large audience.

By 2024 it had about 187 million monthly active users. In 2015 it won the Golden Plume Award for Most Influential Channel Provider. Like other Chinese platforms, it follows government rules and may remove content that’s political or otherwise restricted. Some critics worry about Tencent’s dominance and exclusive deals affecting competition. As of 2025, Yingyongbao remains one of the largest app stores in China.