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There have been over 13 million apps built with MIT App Inventor and Thunkable. The vast majority of these apps were built by individuals or small organizations that never published these apps to to Google Play, but instead shared it with their friends/family/colleagues. However, over 1% of the apps on Google Play have been built with Thunkable or App Inventor. Sorry if there was confusion. We'll try to make that more clear.

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What counts as "building an app"? Is it someone who just pressed a couple buttons and then never came back? I just have a hard time believing the platform was used over 13 million times to build anything non-trivial. If that is the case, then major kudos to you! Either way I think tools like Thunkable have a lot of potential :)

Hey there! We are talking a fully functioning/working app. Btw, App Inventor/Thunkable apps account for more than 1% of the Google Play Store apps.

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