App Marketplaces & Distribution

App Marketplaces & Distribution

The app economy is opening up. Win in it.

After the Digital Markets Act, app distribution is no longer a single front door. We help developers, publishers and platforms navigate alternative app stores, direct distribution and marketplace strategy — with rare, inside knowledge of how app marketplaces actually run.

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What we do

Strategy for a multi-store world

The app distribution landscape just changed more than it has in a decade. We help you turn that into an advantage.

App distribution strategy

Design the right distribution mix across Google Play, alternative app stores, direct download and sideloading — and understand the economics and trade-offs of each.

Marketplace operations & economics

How stores really work: catalogue and discovery, monetisation and payments, trust & safety, and developer relations — from someone who has run one.

DMA & compliance readiness

Turn the Digital Markets Act from a threat into an opportunity — gatekeeper obligations, alternative-store eligibility, steering and compliance. Read our DMA analysis →

In-store growth & monetisation

ASO, user acquisition, measurement and retention — the growth playbook for life inside, and beyond, the big stores. See AdTech & Programmatic →

Capabilities

The app-distribution toolkit

Across the Android ecosystem and the wider app economy.

Google Play Alternative app stores Sideloading & direct distribution App-store economics ASO Monetisation & payments Trust & safety Digital Markets Act
Why C-NAPSE

We’ve run a store, not just studied one

Almost no consultancy can say that. We can.

Built from the inside

Led by a former Product Owner at Aptoide — one of the world’s largest independent Android marketplaces, with 500M+ users. We know how the engine works.

Platform + policy

We understand both the technology of app distribution and the regulation now reshaping it — and how the two interact in practice.

Privacy & compliance fluent

DMA, GDPR and a privacy-first approach are built into everything — so your distribution strategy is also defensible.

Selected work

Inside one of the world’s largest app marketplaces

Where this expertise comes from.

Aptoide · App Marketplace

Product ownership at a 500M-user independent Android store

Our founder served as Product Owner at Aptoide, working across the marketplace’s product, growth, measurement and AI — the kind of operating experience you can only get from inside an app store at scale.

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500M+
Users in the marketplace
Who it’s for

For everyone rethinking distribution

App Developers & Publishers App Marketplaces & Stores Platforms Navigating the DMA Mobile-First Scale-ups

Rethinking how your app reaches users?

The rules just changed. Let’s map the distribution strategy that fits the new app economy — and your business.

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