GetJar is one of the largest independent mobile app stores. The store has been around since 2004 and has been working with several carriers worldwide to bring the GetJar collection of applications to carrier subscribers.

Today, GetJar announced the launch of a white label app store for carriers and content aggregators, called App Catalogue Express (ACE). ACE allows partners to launch their own mobile app stores quickly and easily, filled with content right from the start.

One of the launch projects for ACE is to create a mobile app store for The Carphone Warehouse, Europe’s leading independent mobile phone retailer. The Carphone Warehouse portal offers a selection of high quality mobile apps to customers in the UK, including GetJar’s most popular apps – available for all major platforms and devices.

The demand for apps has soared over the past year. Many operators and other third parties are keen to introduce an app store, without needing to manage the back office infrastructure. ACE is designed to make it quick and easy for carriers, aggregators and partners to launch a pre-populated app store for all major platforms and devices, using GetJar’s large catalogue of existing apps. (Ilja Laurs, GetJar Founder and CEO)

With this white label store, developers that publish their apps on GetJar can now also reach additional channels outside the GetJar storefront. It is however not completely clear if each white labeled store will contain the full catalog of free apps published on GetJar, or just a selection that the owner of the white label store chooses itself. We have asked GetJar for more details and will update this post when we know more.

See more information about GetJar on Appstores.info.

GetJar just released an overview of the most downloaded applications in September. Since quite some months, there has been a heavy battle for GetJar’s top positions among several developers.

These top positions are important, because they together deliver over 10% of all downloads on Getjar. For a developer it is a big thing to have an application in these top listings.

For the first time, GetJar divided its rankings in both worldwide and US. The country specific rankings provide more insight in localization of content. For example, our last Report demonstrated that Apple’s most popular content is much more localized than Android’s. So let’s have a look on these GetJar ranks:

GetJar's most downloaded apps (September)

15 of the 20 apps are among both the Worldwide and US rankings. The 5 applications that are specifically popular in the US are Change Ringtone, Flirtomatic, Playphone, Nulaz and YouTube Web.

All these US specific apps are distributed worldwide. The reason that they have a higher US ranking is not that they are only relevant to a local audience, what you would expect for e.g. local navigation apps. The differences in ranking seem to reflect local preferences and not just local relevancy.

We will keep track of these country specific GetJar rankings to learn more on how this will develop.