App Store passes 1m submissions

The number of apps created for iOS has passed one million, says social app discoverability company Appsfire.

The company revealed the news in a tweet but have not given any further information surrounding the numbers and have not yet updated the figures to account for November.

The number represents that total that have been submitted, and since around one in four apps have since been taken off or replaced, the current number on the App Store sits at a few hundred thousand lower.

This milestone comes as Android begins to catch up with app numbers sitting at around 700,000 according to Google.