Alternatives to Huawei AppGallery
Huawei's official app store for installing and updating Android apps on Huawei and other devices. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Huawei AppGallery
Huawei's official app store for installing and updating Android apps on Huawei and other devices.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Huawei AppGallery.
Samsung Galaxy Store
Samsung's app store for Galaxy devices, offering apps, games, themes and Galaxy-only offers.
Samsung Galaxy Store is also a vendor store, preinstalled on Samsung Galaxy devices and offering themes, but it is intended for Samsung devices only.
Aptoide
An independent Android app store for finding and downloading apps and games outside Google Play.
Aptoide is an independent store for apps and games outside Google Play, not tied to a device maker, with a catalog weighted towards games.
Uptodown
A long-running alternative Android app store for downloading APK files without a Google account.
Uptodown is a closed-source APK store without a Google account, with older app versions for rollback and automatic updates, using third-party distributed APKs.
APKPure
An alternative Android app store and APK download site that works without a Google account.
APKPure provides APKs through an app or website without a Google account, but the files come from a third party rather than developers.
Aurora Store
An open-source client for the Google Play catalog that installs and updates apps without a Google account.
Aurora Store is open source and installs apps from the Google Play catalog on devices without Google Play Services, though paid apps are unsupported.
F-Droid
An app store and client for free and open-source Android apps that works without a Google account.
F-Droid is an open source store that only carries free and open source apps, with no account needed and no tracking of installs.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Huawei AppGallery as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
RuStore
A Russian Android app store for installing and updating apps and games outside Google Play.
Huawei AppGallery is Huawei's official store for devices without Google services, with a catalogue differing from Google Play rather than Russian-focused apps.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Cafe Bazaar
The largest Iranian Android app store for installing and updating Persian and international apps.
Myket
An Iranian Android app store for downloading apps and games, with film and series streaming.
ONE store
A South Korean Android app marketplace for games and apps, with coupons and carrier discounts.
APKUpdater
An open-source Android app that checks several sources for updates to your installed apps.
