Install and rating data for Iran’s most important apps, captured weekly from the four domestic app stores that matter: Cafe Bazaar and Myket on Android, Sib App and Sibche on iOS. Each capture is archived, so the dataset compounds. A weekly English-language read on a market that publishes almost nothing in English, and the only iOS series on Iran that exists in any language.
How to read this. These are figures published by Cafe Bazaar itself, for the Android version of each app, so they are a relative scoreboard on that store rather than a national total. Every capture carries its date and methodology version, and each row links to the listing it was read from.
Why the stores are never merged. The four stores do not measure the same way. Cafe Bazaar and Myket publish install bands. Sib App publishes an integer rounded to one to three significant figures. Sibche publishes an exact integer. Summing or averaging across them would produce a number that looks authoritative and is not, so the board shows one store at a time and the platform is stated on every figure.
Why iOS is a separate market here. Iranians cannot use Apple's App Store normally, so iOS distribution runs through domestic stores. Sib App and Sibche are the iOS equivalents of Cafe Bazaar and Myket, not a long tail, and this is the first English-language measurement of either. A reader comparing two companies should compare them within one store. Until 21 September this page described both iOS stores as Android; that correction is on our corrections page.
More apps and more stores are rolling out as the App Index expands.
Install figures are Android store display buckets, not national totals, and carry no iOS coverage. Free for non-commercial use with attribution to Tehran Index; details in the file header.
Archived on Zenodo with a permanent DOI. Cite as: Tehran Index (2026). Tehran Index App Index: install and rating series for Iran's mobile app market [Dataset]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22734698 (this version: 10.5281/zenodo.23103580)
The download works from a browser. Scripted retrieval of data routes is refused by design; the same file, the full back series and the archival copy are available under licence from desk@tehranindex.com, and each version is deposited under the DOI above.
Source: Tehran Index, from Cafe Bazaar listings. Latest capture 2026-10-10; deltas vs 2026-10-05.
Market activity
Where the record moved, week by week
Published research signals per sector per week. Every cell is a count of verified, source-linked entries in the public record. Density reflects both market activity and desk coverage: the record begins late June 2026, so early weeks read thin because coverage was ramping up, not because the market was quiet.
155 of 279 signals in this window carry no sector tag and are not on the map. A cell therefore reflects tagging as well as activity; a sector that looks quiet may be one whose signals were not tagged, and a change in tagging practice would show here as a change in the market.
Sector
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Oct 5
Fintech38
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E-commerce35
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Mobility12
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Digital Assets11
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Cloud5
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FoodTech5
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Travel5
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Telecom4
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Media3
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Enterprise SW2
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Accelerators1
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App Dist.1
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HR Tech1
1
Logistics1
1
Signals / week0→ 8279 signals · last 12 weeks · 155 without a sector tag not shown
Web visibility
The view from outside Iran
No external provider measures Iranian web traffic precisely. Panel networks barely reach inside the country, so what they capture is diaspora, VPN-exit and out-of-Iran usage. That makes absolute numbers unpublishable, and the desk doesn’t publish them. What is shown is narrower than a ranking: the relative ordering of Iranian platforms as one provider’s panel sees them, which is an observation about that panel and not a verified order, because the panel’s coverage can differ from one platform to another; and the referral graph, who sends visits to whom. The graph is evidence about how the ecosystem is wired, not about its size, and each desk reading beside a flow is a hypothesis the flow is consistent with, not a confirmed relationship.
mydigipay.com→digikala.com8.8% of digikala.com's inbound referral visits
Digipay is Digikala.com’s top referrer in this panel, and 64% of Digipay’s own inbound referrals come from Digikala. Consistent with a two-way dependency; the panel shows the flow, not the contract.
mydigipay.com→api.divar.ir55.4% of mydigipay.com's outgoing referral visits
Consistent with a Divar payment integration running over Digipay.
snapppay.ir→napi.jibit.ir61.5% of snapppay.ir's outgoing referral visits
Consistent with Jibit providing payment rails to SnappPay; not confirmed by either company.
snapp.taxi→superapp.snappfood.ir41.3% of snapp.taxi's outgoing referral visits
Snapp’s outgoing graph is the super-app in one view: SnappFood 41%, pl.snapp 35%, Snapp Market 21%, SnappShop and the SnappPay wallet behind.
digikala.com→torob.com41.6% of torob.com's inbound referral visits
In this panel Torob reads as the referral hub of Iranian e-commerce: Digikala dominates its inbound, and its outgoing spreads across Digikala, Basalam, Technolife and Divar.
divar.ir→sheypoor.com42.2% of sheypoor.com's inbound referral visits
The number-two classifieds platform receives 42% of its referral visits from its main competitor.
app.snapp.taxi→snappfood.ir66.4% of snappfood.ir's inbound referral visits
Two-thirds of SnappFood’s web referrals arrive through the super-app shell.
aparat.com→filimo.com30.4% of filimo.com's inbound referral visits
Sabaidea’s internal funnel: the video platform feeds the streaming service.
web.bale.ai→divar.ir9.9% of divar.ir's inbound referral visits
Bale messenger traffic flows both directions with Divar, a commerce-in-messaging signal.
azkivam.com→cafebazaar.ir20.5% of cafebazaar.ir's inbound referral visits
Consistent with BNPL checkout flows landing back on the store.
Method. Web visibility is not website traffic. Tehran Index reports web measurement in three labeled tiers: company-verified (aggregates a company agrees to publish from its own analytics, the only precise route), provider-estimated (panels like the one above, always labeled), and TI-derived proxies (search demand, index footprint, app-rater velocity). Tiers are never merged, and no tier is presented as another. Companies interested in verified benchmarking can contact the desk.
