Select a category for your app or game
Using the Play Console, you can choose a category for your apps. Users can browse for apps by category using a computer (play.google.com) and the Play Store app.
To choose a category for your app:
- Sign in to your Play Console.
- Select an app.
- On the left menu, click Store presence > Store listing.
- Under 'Categorisation', select an application type and category.
- Save your changes.
Note: It may take up to 24 hours for changes to be reflected on your app's page on Google Play.
Categories
To see a list of categories for apps and games, select an option below.
AppsNew & updated categories
To help users discover your apps, we've recently introduced a few new app categories on the Play Console. Newly added categories will be available to users on Google Play later this year:
- Art & Design, Auto & Vehicles, Beauty, Dating, Events, Food & Drink, House & Home and Parenting
We've also renamed a few existing categories:
| Previous name | Updated name |
|---|---|
| Transport | Maps & Navigation |
| Media & video | Video Players & Editors |
If you choose a newly added category for an app before the category is available for users, your current app category may change. The table below shows the impacted categories.
| New category you selected | Category you'll see before public launch |
|---|---|
|
Auto & Vehicles Beauty Food & Drink House and Home Parenting |
Lifestyle |
| Art & Design | Productivity |
| Dating | Social |
| Events | Entertainment |
| Maps & Navigation | Transport |
| Video Players & Editors | Media & video |
Category examples
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Art & Design | Sketchbooks, painter tools, art & design tools, colouring books |
| Auto & Vehicles | Auto shopping, auto insurance, auto price comparison, road safety, auto reviews & news |
| Beauty | Makeup tutorials, makeover tools, hair styling, beauty shopping, makeup simulators |
| Books & reference | Book readers, reference books, text books, dictionaries, thesaurus, wikis |
| Business | Document editor/reader, package tracking, remote desktop, email management, job search |
| Comics | Comic players, comic titles |
| Communications | Messaging, chat/IM, diallers, address books, browsers, call management |
| Dating | Matchmaking, courtship, relationship building, meeting new people, finding love |
| Education | Exam preparations, study-aids, vocabulary, educational games, language learning |
| Entertainment | Streaming video, Movies, TV, interactive entertainment |
| Events | Concert tickets, sporting event tickets, ticket resales, movie tickets |
| Finance | Banking, payment, cashpoint finders, financial news, insurance, taxes, portfolio/trading, tip calculators |
| Food & Drink | Recipes, restaurants, food guides, wine tasting & discovery, beverage recipes |
| Health & Fitness | Personal fitness, workout tracking, diet and nutritional tips, health & safety, etc. |
| House & Home | House & apartment search, home improvement, interior decoration, mortgages, real estate |
| Libraries & Demo | Software libraries, technical demos |
| Lifestyle | Style guides, wedding & party planning, how-to guides |
| Maps & Navigation | Navigation tools, GPS, mapping, transit tools, public transportation |
| Medical | Drug & clinical references, calculators, handbooks for health-care providers, medical journals & news |
| Music & audio | Music services, radios, music players |
| News & magazines | Newspapers, news aggregators, magazines, blogging |
| Parenting | Pregnancy, infant care & monitoring, childcare |
| Personalisation | Wallpapers, live wallpapers, home screen, lock screen, ringtones |
| Photography | Cameras, photo editing tools, photo management and sharing |
| Productivity | Notepad, to-do list, keyboard, printing, calendar, backup, calculator, conversion |
| Shopping | Online shopping, auctions, coupons, price comparison, shopping lists, product reviews |
| Social | Social networking, check-in |
| Sport | Sports news & commentary, score tracking, fantasy team management, game coverage |
| Tools | Tools for Android devices |
| Travel & Local | Trip booking tools, ride sharing, taxis, city guides, local business information, trip management tools, tour booking |
| Video Players & Editors | Video players, video editors, media storage |
| Weather | Weather reports |
Action, Adventure, Arcade, Board, Card, Casino, Casual, Educational, Music, Puzzle, Racing, Role Playing, Simulation, Sports, Strategy, Trivia, Word.