Spain is a growing app economy, after being in the shadow of the UK, France and Germany for more than a decade.
Smartphone usage is high in Spain in comparison to other European countries, with over 85 percent of the country using apps. At the same time, the proliferation of 4G and 5G networking services has brought more people fully online.
Spain has one of the largest app economies in Europe based on total employment, with over 200,000 people working in the industry. This has spawned several homegrown apps, most notably Glovo and Busuu.
The Spanish government has also launched several popular apps and integrated into the mobile ecosystem, with Cl@ve and Certificado Digital FNMT providing easy to access digital identification and support.
Growing attention is being paid to the development of all-in-one superapps, which would offer banking, shopping and task services. A survey found 44 percent of Spanish respondents were interested in the prospects of an everyday app, although many were concerned about data security.
We have collected data and statistics on the Spanish mobile app market. Read on below to find out more.
Key Spain App Market Statistics
- The Spanish app market generated close to $1 billion revenue in 2024
- The average Spanish consumer spent $23.3 on apps in 2024
- There were 41.9 million Spanish smartphone users in 2024, an increase of half a million on the previous year
- Disney+ was the top grossing app in Spain in 2024, ahead of Tinder and Google One
- There were 1.8 billion apps downloaded in Spain in 2024
- The average Spanish mobile user downloaded 42.9 apps
- Temu was the most installed app in Spain in 2024, with 14.2 million downloads
- Spanish smartphone users spend five hours 40 minutes on the internet every day
- About 58% of all internet consumption is done on the mobile in Spain
- The average cellular speed in Spain was 54.4Mbps in 2024
