Apple AppStore has reached the landmark of 1 million apps submitted to its App Store since July 2008, according to a tweet byApp Store discovery company Appsfire. The app count includes iOS apps only and doesn’t account for Mac App Store apps.

Appsfire, provided some details of how the App Store reached the figure. Of the one million app submissions since 2008, 493,289 were paid and 158,848 were games. Of the 736,247 apps that are currently live 336,270 are paid (around 45 percent), while 120,065 are games (around 16 percent).

While reeling out statistics during theiPhone 5 launch Tim Cook had mentioned that  that its average customer now uses over 100 apps and that the App Store application count had grown beyond 700,000 live apps.

iOS’es rival operating system Android’s Play Store now houses to more than 675,000 apps and seen more than 25 billion downloads since launch.