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As an Android developer you know by now that when you finish working on your app and get it published on Google Play the other half of work just starts, the work you like less: marketing. However this is an important part that influences the popularity of your app. If you rely solely on submitting apps to Google Play alone, you’re doing a mistake. You should submit your app to as many Android review sites as possible. Think about how much promotion do you get by default from Google Play when you publish an app and you’ll see that they don’t do much. With close to a million apps now published in the playstore it would be difficult for them to promote new ones. Right now here’s how they promote apps on Google Play:

  • Top paid/free and grossing. They show the lucky 5 most popular apps on the homepage and if as an user you have the curiosity to check the popular ones per category or ‘All Top Paid Apps’ you’ll get 20 pages with 24 apps on them so a total of 480*3 apps that get promoted this way. Then there’s also the Top New Paid and Top New Free lists that will show the same amount of apps but added recently (most likely if your app gets some steam this is where it could be shown). All in all with the top charts there are 5 lists of 480 apps so 2400 listings.
  • Staff picks/editor choice. Then there’s the list of apps their own staff decides to promote, but in total there are around 100 apps promoted this way.
  • Trending apps & Recommended for you. Here they show 240 apps and games that are rising in popularity, much like the Top new free/paid but even less popular then those. As a logged in user you get to receive some app recommendations as well, but those are just 24 apps.
  • Related apps/games. For each listing in the playstore Google will show the user additional related games and apps. Like it wasn’t difficult enough to promote your app, now they show your visitors your most popular competitors as well. Luckily there aren’t many listings shown this way, but chances are your app is listed this way somewhere too. Considering that the prominent listings mentioned above account for a total of 2764 apps and given that there are usually 8 recommendations, we’ll place the possible related apps/games listings that could get visibility to 22112.

So that’s it, they basically promote 25,000 apps in total, with 20% of those apps receiving the most exposure because no one will scroll to the 20th page of the Top apps. Sure, there’s the search option as well but having your app shown in the first few listings is closely related on how well you’ve optimized your playstore listing. In the recent keynote they’ve disclosed that there are 6 million unique searches per month, so about 200,000 searches daily. Out of those, let’s assume that 20% of the searches are popular enough to see some traffic your way if you’re optimized. That means about 40,000 apps/games will be installed daily and receive visibility this way. Summing it all up they promote 65,000 apps (roughly) out of 1 million. That’s a little over 6% and again this is a very optimistic approximation given that I didn’t exclude duplicates. But anyway, would you rely solely on the act of god that will push your app in those lucky 6%?

You shouldn’t. You have to do anything in your power to promote your Android app and market it to your best knowledge. One of the recommendations is to submit your app to as many review sites as you can. All of them if possible. This way you can do something to increase the popularity of your app. Now, there aren’t many popular Android review sites, but for sure all of the most popular ones are included in the list I gathered below. As of right now there are 168 Android sites in this list, and since it is work-in-progress if you know of a new website or have anything to add regarding the sites already present please leave a comment and help us improve it (if you’re looking for game-related sites only, see my other post for a Game Review Sites List).

A couple of notes about the list of Android review sites below:

  • The ‘Popularity’ meter takes into account the amount of backlinks that particular site has.
  • I constantly add new contact information for the listed websites, so bare with me until I get it done. If you have something to add, say it in the comments and it will be added.
  • In the URL column I only show the main domain but the full url to the review site is embedded in the code, so when you click on each domain you’ll be directed to the page where you can submit the app – this only in the case that I found the correct url, a thing that still needs improvement.
  • Disclosure: Yes, that first 2 websites are not the most popular ones, but the guy behind them (me!) helped create this list of Android review websites.

“Email (hidden)” below means that the contact email address was removed due to the requests I received. There are around 45 email addresses that I protected.

I launched a submission service, 140+ App review sites requests. The protected contact details are included in the report I send after the submission is completed and I use a more accurate list with over 300 websites.

URLPopularity*Contact
androidb.comx 
appsubmission.comx 
Google+ communityx 
Facebook fan pagex 
Indie Game HuntxGAMES only
t3.com14086Email (hidden)
techhive.com8249Email (hidden)
elandroidelibre.com4458Email (hidden)
mobiFlip.de3364Email (hidden)
appbrain.com3116Email (hidden)
androidcentral.com2656Email (hidden)
appmodo.com2146Email (hidden)
androlib.com1471requires developer account
androidpolice.com1451Email (hidden)
talkandroid.com1064Email (hidden)
pocketgamer.co.uk1056Email (hidden)
androidzoom.com948Email (hidden)
androidapps.com912create forum account
frandroid.com878online contact form
androidpit.com747create developer account
appmax.jp516website is down
appstorehq.com480paid appstore SEO service
pointgphone.com407online contact form
playandroid.com325Email (hidden)
phandroid.com323online contact form
androidandme.com294online contact form
forum.android.com.pl294account required
androidspin.com262online contact form
eurodroid.com248hello@eurodroid.com
androidforums.com235account required (forum)
androidcommunity.com184online contact form
appeggs.com161paid service ($50)
appgames.net156Email (hidden)
meandmydroid.com155outdated blog
androidappreviewsource.com111Email (hidden)
android-games.fr102paid review ($25)
pcworld.com98redirects to techive
rawapps.com98website is down
androidheadlines.com881pxEmail (hidden)
applicationandroid.fr52website is down
gphone.news.free.fr48online contact form
androidguys.com43Email (hidden)
android-france.fr43account required (forum)
android-mt.com43online contact form
androidapplog.com40online contact form
gamespot.com38Email (hidden)
androidgamesreview.com35Email (hidden)
tips4tech.net35Email (hidden)
androidtapp.com33online contact form
developer.amazon.com32account required
androidviral.com30Email (hidden)
mobileappsgallery.com28online contact form
tablette.com26Email (hidden)
droididol.com26online form (free/paid)
android-apps.com25online contact form
androidgaming.nl22Email (hidden)
topbestfreeapps.com19online form (free/paid)
androidappsreview.com15online form (paid)
100bestandroidapps.com15online contact form
droidologist.com14online contact form
bestandroidappsreview.com10online form
androidrundown.com10Email (hidden)
androidinblog.fr10account required (forum)
openhandsetdevelopers.com9website is down
askyourandroid.com8online form
androidgamesapps.apkfile.us8 
androidpit.fr8account required
androidappsgallery.com7online form
lifeofandroid.com7Email (hidden)
androidappdictions.com5online form
androidvideoreview.net5online form
jeuxandroid.org5Email (hidden)
droid-life.com4online form
droidandroidgames.com4Email (hidden)
latestandroidapps.net3online form
apps400.com3online form
appstouse.com3online form
android.appstorm.net3online form
androinica.com3online form
getandroidstuff.com3online form
applicationandroid.com3Email (hidden)
applicationsandroidfrance.com3website is down
bestandroidgames.net3 
droidreviewcentral.com3online form
androidapps-reviews.com3Email (hidden)
anddev.org3account required (forum)
101bestandroidapps.com3online contact form
androidpimps.com3Email (hidden)
androidbloke.co.uk3Email (hidden)
android.appgefahren.de3online contact form
androidapps.org2online contact form
droidgamers.com2online form
dailyappshow.com1online form
droidgaming.net1Email (hidden)
androidlab.it1online contact form
androidworld.it1online contact form
androidetvous.com1online contact form
meilleuresapplicationsandroid.fr1online form
androidshock.com1online contact form
gamepro.de1online contact form
screwattack.com1Email (hidden)
crazymikesapps.com1online contact form
droidsoft.fr-Email (hidden)
androidgen.fr-online contact form
androidphonethemes.com-online contact form
n-droid.de-Email (hidden)
24android.com-online contact form
bestandroidgameaward.com-online form
androidmarketapps.com-online form
theandroidgalaxy.com-Email (hidden)
reddit.com account required
forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com account required (forum)
4pda.ru *russian forum, very popular
gamewoof.com Email (hidden)
androidki.com Email (hidden)
148apps.com Email (hidden)
giggleapps.com only kids apps
forum.softpedia.com account required (forum)
andengine.org account required (forum)
everythingandroid.org account required (forum)
androidforum.com account required (forum)
androider.ro online form
appszoom.com Email (hidden)
heyzap.com paid promotion
getjar.com publisher
slideme.org publisher
androidauthority.com online form
gamezebo.com Email (hidden)
idgcsmb.com same as techive
tapscape.com online form
appreviewcentral.net online form
appsplit.com online form
android.net account required (forum)
newappsreview.com online form
droidappoftheday.com paid ($20)
tapzone.info-Email (hidden)
hookedondroid.com-Email (hidden)
whatsgoodblog.com-website down
phonedog.com-Email (hidden)
theandroidsite.com-Email (hidden)
toucharcade.com-Email (hidden)
omgdroid.com-Email (hidden)
gamingnerd.com-website down
pocket-lint.com-online form
smartkeitai.com-online form
mobilism.org-account required (forum)
rpgwatch.com-account required (forum)
smartphonedaily.co.uk-online form
gameplaytoday.com-online form
androidencyclopedia.com-online form
androidsocialmedia.com-online form
androidtablets.net-account required (forum)
androidtechie.com-account required (forum)
androidwhirl.com-website down
applorer.com-online form
bestandroidappssite.info-website down
gamerpond.com-online form
knowyourmobile.com-online form
xandroidtablets.com-website down
androidng.com-online form
androidrpg.org-website down
attdroids.com-account required (forum)
droidforums.net-account required (forum)
favandroidapps.com-website down
forum.mobiles24.com-account required (forum)
forum.unity3d.com-account required (forum)
gamespot.com-account required (forum)
htcdesireforum.com-account required (forum)
iosrpg.com-online form
playdroid.blogspot.com--
samsunggalaxysforum.com-account required (forum)
inventchaos.com-online form
appcritique.com-online form
freeappin.com-account required
http://gamesreviewer.net/contact/-online form

Any input is highly appreciated so please do leave a comment if you have other marketing ideas or something that would improve this list of Android review sites. Nevertheless, if you find this post useful share it via your social networks as I’m sure your developer friends will appreciate it too. And again, if you’re tired of submitting to Android app review sites by yourself I can help you, check out how here: 140+ App review requests

P.S. If you have a game I created another post with game review sites you can submit to: Game review sites for app review requests.

P.S.S. If you have any suggestions you can submit them using the List.ly list of android sites below: