When we talk about Aptoide, we are talking about one of the leading app stores that offer an alternative to the Play Store. It has not been immune from controversies throughout its history, because in such stores the security department is always a doubt. In fact, he had to win the battle against the Play Store because Play Protect wanted to prevent this application from being installed on Android devices.

Despite the controversies, Aptoide has managed to become one of the largest stores worldwide for Android, surpassed only by the Play Store.

In my particular case, I hadn’t tried Aptoide in almost 5 or 6 years and wanted to go back to the app to check its current status. I can already tell that this is a pleasant surprise.

Aptoide has developed very satisfactorily

The first thing that caught my attention in the latest version of Aptoide is the interface, it is quite discreet and this is one of the details that third-party app stores tend to neglect. Third-party stores often visually look like very different alternatives to traditional app stores, and this can cause a certain amount of friction when coming to them for the first time.

This is not the case with Aptoide, an application where we will find a completely updated, divided into different categories and, most importantly, a very intuitive interface. if you are wondering most popular apps are available on Aptoidethe answer echoes, yes, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube and even the main Spanish banking applications are in this repository.

The only point where I found a particular lack of repertoire was in the games. Yes, there are some of the most popular and downloaded deliveries from Play Store. However, the volume of games here is not as large as in the applications section. I quite liked it How to download everything: Same as in Play Store. You select the app and it is downloaded; There is no need to redirect you to an external portal.

A point that emphasizes that the store is related to the version of the applications. First of all, I noticed this the latest version is always availableSince the update is not yet released via the server in our region, it usually takes a while for us to reach the Play Store.

In case of Aptoide, we will always update to the latest version without any waiting. If we are not convinced by the latest version we just downloaded, we can revert to a previous version a function from the app itself that I would like the Google Play store to have and which is not available for security reasons.

Another very interesting part is that Aptoide reserves a special section of its store for developers to create a space for themselves. This means we can access the list of featured developers and see at a glance all the apps they have published. It is something relatively similar to the developer file we find on the Play Store, but with a special section to give developers more visibility.

Regarding the question, you might be asking yourself whether Aptoide is safe or not. The answer is that, generally speaking, Yes like that. The installed Aptoide app follows a security verification process with relevant anti-malware systems.

In fact, Aptoide displays a verification badge on apps that have passed all relevant security checks and are guaranteed to download. In cases where we cannot see the badge, we will know that this application is awaiting verification, so it will be up to us whether to download it or not.

Is Aptoide a threat to Play Store? NO. It’s not like that… it doesn’t look like it either.. This is a very safe alternative where developers can avoid Google’s commission systems, and since it’s a more direct APK repository, it has the significant advantage that updates arrive very quickly.

Aptoide has plans to move to iOS, and the store’s future looks promising thanks to major deals with manufacturers like Mercedes to bring the app to cars of the future.

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