Application software

Quality:

Application software - software program or group of programs designed for end-users. Article “Application software” in English Wikipedia has 44.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.35 points.

This article has the best quality in French Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6390^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5149^th most popular in all topics.

The 8776^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Application software” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Application software”, its content was written by 833 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2739 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8776^th place).

The article is cited 2619 times in English Wikipedia and cited 17991 times in all languages (9655^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1299 in January 2026
• Global: #647 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1131 in November 2013
• Global: #1809 in June 2013

There are 47 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	French (fr) Application (informatique)		55.4753
2	Chinese (zh) 应用程序		48.6581
3	English (en) Application software		44.6251
4	Portuguese (pt) Software aplicativo		39.7138
5	Basque (eu) Aplikazio informatiko		37.0862
6	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションソフトウェア		34.5493
7	Latin (la) Programmatura applicativa		32.968
8	Spanish (es) Software de aplicación		32.42
9	German (de) Anwendungssoftware		28.1502
10	Greek (el) Εφαρμογή υπολογιστή		27.3102

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Application software		18 785 521
2	Spanish (es) Software de aplicación		6 364 915
3	Russian (ru) Прикладное программное обеспечение		2 402 657
4	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションソフトウェア		2 346 471
5	German (de) Anwendungssoftware		1 704 345
6	French (fr) Application (informatique)		1 665 811
7	Portuguese (pt) Software aplicativo		1 474 072
8	Indonesian (id) Aplikasi		1 304 587
9	Polish (pl) Oprogramowanie użytkowe		814 480
10	Thai (th) โปรแกรมประยุกต์		633 503

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Application software		17 451
2	French (fr) Application (informatique)		2 234
3	Spanish (es) Software de aplicación		2 054
4	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションソフトウェア		2 011
5	Russian (ru) Прикладное программное обеспечение		1 757
6	Persian (fa) نرم‌افزار کاربردی		1 621
7	German (de) Anwendungssoftware		1 415
8	Indonesian (id) Aplikasi		1 413
9	Chinese (zh) 应用程序		862
10	Portuguese (pt) Software aplicativo		663

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Application software		833
2	German (de) Anwendungssoftware		220
3	Spanish (es) Software de aplicación		171
4	French (fr) Application (informatique)		140
5	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションソフトウェア		107
6	Italian (it) Applicazione (informatica)		98
7	Portuguese (pt) Software aplicativo		83
8	Dutch (nl) Applicatie		77
9	Ukrainian (uk) Застосунок		75
10	Russian (ru) Прикладное программное обеспечение		72

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Application software		2
2	Indonesian (id) Aplikasi		2
3	Thai (th) โปรแกรมประยุกต์		2
4	Arabic (ar) برمجيات تطبيقية		1
5	Greek (el) Εφαρμογή υπολογιστή		1
6	Finnish (fi) Sovellusohjelma		1
7	Hindi (hi) ऍप्लिकेशन सॉफ्टवेयर		1
8	Japanese (ja) アプリケーションソフトウェア		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Software aplicativo		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Tətbiqi proqram təminatı		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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