Historical [COVID-19]-related Android (Google Play) and iOS (App Store) app ecosystems, 2020–2022

This dataset provides historical information about all the apps that are part of the global [COVID-19]-related Android (Google Play) and iOS (App Store) app ecosystems, derived from Google Play (play.google.com) and Apple's App Store (apps.apple.com) between July 2020 and February 2022. For both app stores, all of the available ‘locations’ (Google Play) and ‘countries or regions’ (App Store) were queried weekly for [covid] and [corona] (N = 77 global snapshots) using a custom scheduler built atop the ASI/DMI App Store Scrapers (http://appstudies.org/tools/). The dataset also includes details about each Android or iOS app search result. The dataset is one of the outcomes of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)/UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Rapid Response Grant ‘COVID-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies’ (2020); and is deposited for the (open access) journal article: Dieter, M., Helmond, A., Tkacz, N., van der Vlist, F. N., & Weltevrede, E. (2021, June 23) Pandemic platform governance: Mapping the global ecosystem of COVID-19 response apps. Internet Policy Review, 10(3). Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.3.1568.