AppGallery: why you should give an alternative store a chance

For 2.5 years now, Huawei smartphones have been shipped without Google services, and as the main application store on

They use their own AppGallery.During this time, it has come a very long way forward, turning from a forced measure into an excellent analogue of the Play Market. Don't believe me? Now in five paragraphs we will explain why this is really so.

1. There are many applications in AppGallery.So many. Over a million.In comparison, Nokia Lumia users at the height of their popularity had to settle for ten times the smaller marketplace. Among the applications available in the AppGallery are all the services of Sberbank, VK and Yandex, as well as many popular games, including Standoff 2 and Gardenscapes. Most likely, almost everything that you use is on the shelves not only of Google Play, but also of the Huawei store.

2. If some application is not in AppGallery, you can still download it there.Like this?The fact is that the AppGallery app store is integrated with the Petal Search search engine and automatically searches secure sites with .apk files, such as APKPure. In addition, you can already download Google applications from AppGallery, for example, YouTube, WhatsApp and Google Maps; The list will be updated, but for now you can additionally use the GSpace application, where all Google services are available!

3. YouTube Vanced.This will never happen on Google Play, but hereHuawei in the AppGallery allowed the release of the YouTube Vanced application, a modified version of the popular video hosting client that gives free access to all YouTube Premium features. No ads and play in the background! Of course, you can install Vanced without AppGallery, but that's the easiest way. Well, if you don’t need these goodies, then the usual YouTube application can also be downloaded through the AppGallery, see the previous paragraph.

4. All Russian applications are available in AppGallery.For example, banking utilities of Sberbank, Alfa-Bankand other sanctioned banks that have disappeared from Google Play are still available on the AppGallery. Yes, banks post .apk files on official websites or recommend using online banking in a browser, but why do this if you can just download the application from the store?

5. Payment within applications.This is largely a consequence of the previous point, butWe decided to take it out separately. AppGallery lets you make in-app purchases! And not only from a mobile phone account or through Qiwi, but also by a bank card, including MasterCard and Visa (and Mir, of course). And when making purchases in AppGallery, they sometimes give cashback - for example, on Fridays there are rewards for purchases in various games.

And here you may ask: why are you telling me about all this? AppGallery is for Huawei smartphones. And I have Xiaomi, Realme, Samsung or something else. But no -AppGallery can be installed on any Android smartphone, regardless of the presence of Google services on it. And this will make its use a little more pleasant and efficient. Explore it on AppGallery.

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