Android - How can I bulk install apps with Play Store or App-Brain?

This might be a new feature of newer versions of Android (I'm using 4.4), but I can easily mass install apps from the Play Store.

How to mass-install apps with the Play Store:

  1. Open the Play Store
  2. Go to My Apps
  3. Go to All
  4. Keep your finger pressed on an app that has not been installed yet for a second or so.
  5. Now the play store goes into selection mode, you can simply select all the apps you want and press the "Install" button at the top when you re done.

I don't know of a way to do this. I recently bought a new phone, and to save myself the tedium of manually installing 40 odd apps, I went to the Google Play Store using a desktop browser. It will already have a list of apps you have installed under My Apps, so you can quickly spin through the list and install them - you don't need to wait for each app to install.


Assuming you've previously installed AppBrain and synced your device, you can do the following:

  1. From Google Play Market download and install AppBrain and Fast Web Installer apps.
  2. Open the Fast Web Installer and sign in with your Google account (same one you are using on Play Store).
  3. Open the AppBrain app, and sign in with your AppBrain account.
  4. Go to Preferences, and then use the "Enable Fast Web Install" option.
  5. Under Menu go to "More lists..." option, select the previously synced list, tap the "Add all apps" button, and tap the back button.
  6. Tap the "Execute" button, and after reviewing the permissions tap the "Install" button. This should download and install apps in batch, without having to confirm each one separately.

You can also create lists of apps via AppBrain's site, and these lists should show up in the app.