Application categories for RuStore
Here is general information about what apps fall into each category, as well as examples for clarity. Carefully read the category list before selecting a category for your uploaded app and submitting it for moderation.
How to assign a category
- Open the RuStore Console.
- Click the "Applications" tab.
- Click "Add an App".
- Select the type of your application in the "Type" section: a non-game app or a game. The non-game apps are located on the main page of the RuStore on the "Applications" tab, and the games are on the "Games" tab.
- In the drop-down list, select the main category for your application, taking into account its features. The application will be placed in the selected category on the store.
- Select an additional category whenever required. The application will be placed in two categories on the store at once.
You can select two categories for an app - main and additional: the most relevant one is indicated in the main category, and there may be no additional category. If you are unsure about your choice, look at the list of categories below.
Support specialists will correct the app category at the moderation stage.
Pay attention to the “Requirements” column: it contains requirements and clarifications that must be taken into account when assigning categories.
Moderators are also guided by the requirements. These rules help us set up the correct results in categories and ensure fair placement of all apps in the RuStore.
Provide only relevant categories for your app as directed to ensure the publishing process is as fast and efficient as possible and makes it easier for users to find your app.
App categories
- Business services
Description: Internal services for company employees, including training and tools for doing business - accounting, logistics, HR/purchasing management, CRM. Special tools - door measurers, applications for taxi and truck drivers, couriers, etc. Apps that monetize ad viewing or other ways to earn money.
Requirements: Do not assign apps in this category the additional "Useful Tools" category. Applications for couriers, taxi drivers and other transport do not need to be further categorized as “Transport”. Apps for business are assigned the main category “Finance”, and “Business Services” can be specified as an additional category.
Examples:
- Yandex Pro: drivers and couriers;
- Delivery Club: working as a courier;
- RSHB employee's office;
- 1C: Document Flow;
- Door measurer;
- Minisklad.
- Government
Description: Apps of departments, as well as services for paperwork, accounting and payment of taxes, online records in departments and MFCs, social government programs.
Requirements: The category is included only by apps from government developers.
Examples:
- Gosuslugi;
- Gosuslugi Auto;
- CB Online;
- EASUZ portal;
- Taxes FL;
- Banknotes of the Bank of Russia.
- Food & Drink
Description: Apps for cafes and restaurants, food and grocery delivery services, table reservations, collections of recipes.
Requirements: Do not specify the additional “Purchases” category.
Examples:
- Samokat;
- Vkusvill;
- Yandex Lavka;
- Pyaterochka;
- Burger king;
- Domino’s Pizza.
- Medical
Description: Pharmacy applications, services for searching and making an appointment with a doctor or psychologist, searching and ordering medications, apps for rest and relaxation, diets and nutrition control, health, sleep and habit trackers.
Requirements: Fitness and home workout apps fall under the Sports category - do not list the Health category as an additional category. For pharmacies, do not assign an additional “Shopping” category, and for health trackers, you do not need to specify a “Lifestyle” category.
Examples:
- K vrachu;
- K vrachu — online appointment;
- Ozerki Pharmacy;
- First aid
- ProU - Diet Builder;
- Allergy Diary;
- Women's Period Calendar;
- Square breathing Antistress.
- Books
Description: Books, including religious books, comics, and audiobooks.
Requirements: Apps with children's fairy tales belong to the “Parents” category. Additionally, you can attach the “Books” device to them.
Examples:
- Litres;
- Audiobooks;
- beeline books and audiobooks;
- Dzen;
- PowerAudioBook;
- Inspirebook.
- News
Description: News portals and city news services, apps for cities or regions with a news section, event posters and purchasing tickets for events.
Examples:
- RIA Novosti;
- Mail.ru News;
- Lenta.ru;
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta;
- My city Volgograd;
- Afisha.
- Lifestyle
Description: Hobbies and interests, religion and esotericism, horoscopes, psychological and other non-professional tests, handicrafts, postcards and congratulations, demotivators and pictures.
Requirements: For religious books and audiobooks, assign the main category “Books”. Do not assign an additional “Lifestyle” category to health trackers, women’s calendars and other apps from the “Health ” category. For bicycle and scooter rental services from the “Transport” category, you can additionally specify the “Lifestyle” category.
Examples:
- Gardener's Guide;
- Fisherman's Guide
- Bite Forecast;
- Numerology and Tarot;
- Happy Birthday Greetings;
- Music and Chakras;
- Psychological tests;
- Jokes, memes, pictures.
- Education
Description: Apps for professional education, pupils and students, services for learning foreign languages, training courses, professional certifications and tests.
Requirements: Apps for studying traffic rules and learning to drive vehicles must be included only in the “Transport” category. For electronic student diaries, you can additionally select the “For Parents” category.
Examples:
- SkyEng;
- Training courses - beeline;
- Unified State Exam Literature 2023;
- Investment training;
- Dnevac - Class schedule;
- Uchi.ru.
- Communication
Description: Social networks and blogs, messengers, dating services.
Requirements. Don't add an additional "Entertainment" category to dating apps. Do not indicate the additional category “Useful tools” to messengers. Social networks with the option to search/play/create visual or audio content can be given an additional “Entertainment” category. For video calls and conferences, assign the main category “Useful tools”, and you can add “Communication” as an additional category.
Examples:
- VKontakte;
- Odnoklassniki;
- ЯRus;
- Yappy;
- Galaxy Dating Chat;
- Pikabu.
- Ads and services
Description: Services with advertisements and search for specialists, delivery of items and cargo, courier services, apps for beauty salons, dry cleaners, cleaning services, repairs and other services.
Requirements: Do not provide apps with the additional “Purchases” category. For courier services, you can additionally select the “Transport” category.
Examples:
- Domclick;
- Sutochno.ru;
- HH.ru;
- Auto.ru;
- Yandex Real Estate;
- CDEK;
- Moiprofi.
- Pets
Description: Services for making appointments and online consultations with veterinarians, free campaigns to find animals and support shelter pets, apps for studying animal breeds.
Examples:
- Vetexpert — veterinarian 24/7;
- Rabies — vaccination schedule;
- Goodog — shelter pets;
- Dog breeds;
- Animal Search;
- In good hands.
- Shopping
Description: Apps for stores and marketplaces, services for shopping lists, discounts and cashback.
Requirements: For pharmacies, select only the “Health” category. For food and grocery delivery, restaurant and cafe apps, select only the “Food and Drinks” category. For apps with advertisements for sale, select only the "Ads and Services" category.
Examples:
- Yandex.Market;
- SberMegaMarket;
- Ozon;
- Chitai-gorod;
- Eldorado;
- Flor2U;
- RIve Gauche;
- Hello World! — cashback and promotions;
- PriceMeter: prices, discounts, promotions.
- Tools
Description: Apps for working with documents, task scheduler, communications and Internet, video calls and video conferences. Apps for smart home and housing, communal services payments from management companies. Photo and video editors, wallpapers and widgets for your phone, weather, flashlights, keyboards, utilities and etc.
Requirements: For messengers, select only the “Communication” category. Tools for doing business (CRM, accounting, etc.) belong to the “Business services” category. Do not include the additional "Useful Tools" category. Each app is a useful tool; we do not recommend overloading this category.
Examples:
- Weather;
- Keyboards;
- Voice assistants;
- Calendars;
- Password generators and managers;
- Text Editors;
- Browsers;
- Mobile operators.
- Travel
Description: Apps for tourists, services for purchasing tickets and tours, high-quality hotels, rental housing, tourist navigators, excursions.
Requirements: Do not specify the additional category “Transport” for services for purchasing tickets and tours. For tourist navigators with maps, you can additionally select the “Transport” category.
Examples:
- Aeroflot;
- S7;
- Railway tickets;
- RZD for passengers;
- Last minute tours;
- Map.ru;
- Sights of Russia.
- Entertainment
Description: Apps for listening to music and radio, TV channels and video services, online cinemas, karaoke, streaming apps, games, buying cinema and theater tickets, organizing events and other entertainment, other entertainment services that does not apply to other categories.
Don't select the "Entertainment" category for games. RuStore has separate categories for them.
Requirements: For audiobooks, select the main category “Books”. For apps that broadcast sports matches, in addition to the main “Sports” category, you can specify an additional “Entertainment” category. For social networks with the option to search/play/create visual or audio content, in addition to the main category “Communication”, you can specify an additional category “Entertainment”. Don't specify the additional "Entertainment" category to dating apps.
Examples:
- VK Music;
- Yandex.Music;
- Zaycev.net;
- Okko;
- Kiinopoisk;
- Rutube;
- VK Play;
- Afisha.
- For parents
Description: Apps for children and parents, trackers and locators of children, services for pregnancy and child development, breastfeeding diaries, lullabies and white noise for sleep.
Requirements: For children's fairy tales, choose the main category “For Parents” and the additional category “Books”. For electronic student diaries, select the main category “Education”. Additionally, you can select the “Parents” category.
Examples:
- Baby Diary - Baby Mode;
- Where are my children: GPS tracker 0+;
- Lullabies;
- Count to 1000;
- Learn to read;
- I am pregnant;
- Speech therapist —speech launch.
- Sport
Description: Apps for sports clubs and fitness centers, services for news and broadcasts of sports, training and fitness.
Requirements: For betting apps, select only the “Betting and Lotteries” category. Don't give workouts and fitness apps the additional "Health" category. For apps that broadcast sports matches, you can additionally specify the “Entertainment” category.
Examples:
- Match.TV;
- Sports.ru: sports news;
- FC Spartak;
- Sport24;
- Football - news and results;
- GymUp — workout diary;
- Push-up counter.
- Bets and lotteries
Description: Apps with lotteries and sports betting.
Requirements: Do not indicate bookmaker offers and lotteries of any additional categories.
Examples:
- Fonbet — online sports betting;
- Liga stavok;
- 1xStavka— sports betting;
- Stoloto.
- Transport and navigation
Description: Taxi, car sharing and ridesharing services, apps for drivers and passengers, maps and navigators, services for tracking public transport and replenishing travel tickets, services for renting scooters and bicycles, as well as apps for studying traffic rules and training driving vehicles, MTPL and CASCO insurance.
Requirements: For apps for studying traffic rules and learning to drive other vehicles, you do not need to indicate the “Education” category. For parcel and cargo delivery apps, courier services, select the main category “Ads and Services”. Additionally, you can specify the “Transport” category for them.
You can also specify the additional category “Transport” for tourist navigators with maps. Do not specify the additional “Transport” category for services for purchasing tickets and tours; classify them only in the “Travel” category. Do not provide apps for taxi drivers, transport company employees, and couriers with the additional “Transport” category. Classify them only under the “Business Services” category. Bicycle and scooter rental services can additionally be specified as a “Lifestyle” category.
Examples:
- 2GIS;
- Yandex Maps and Navigator;
- Yandex Go;
- Citymobil;
- Traffic police fines;
- Delimobil - car sharing;
- Urent.
- Finance
Description: Apps for banks and financial organizations, services for accounting for expenses and budgetary expenses, money transfers, loans and credit cards.
Requirements:
Do not assign the "Finance" definition to apps that monetize ad views and other processing methods - such apps are classified as "Business Services".
Banking apps for business can include “Business Services” as an additional category.
Examples:
- SberBank with Salute;
- Tinkoff Bank;
- VTB;
- Personal finance;
- Loan calculator;
- Finance - budget, expenses;
- Alfa Business.
Game categories
All games are prohibited from: realistic scenes of violence, abundance of profanity, shocking and offensive content, promotion of hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, gender, age and sexuality, statements of a defamatory nature or statements that insult the honor and dignity, other content that violates the legislation of the Russian Federation.
- Arcade
Description: Games for quickly solving virtual problems. Players must act quickly and accurately, receiving bonuses for successful decisions: points, new skills for characters or elements of the game world, and etc.
Examples:
- Running ball;
- Red lines;
- Doctor Cat;
- Zombie Drive;
- Simple Snake;
- Dino Trex.
- Quizzes
Description: Finding answers to questions in a limited amount of time from different areas of knowledge: riddles with words and quizzes. Tasks are given to players in text, graphic or audio format.
Examples:
- Guess the Words;
- Puzzles;
- Math with Dino;
- Quiz. Quiz-Battle;
- Quiz Kids;
- TriviaChallenge.
- Puzzles
Description: The gameplay offers players solving puzzles of varying complexity: selecting matching elements and searching for logical sequences.
Examples:
- Sudoku;
- Solitaire;
- Philwords game: find the words;
- Sorting Balls;
- Open the lock;
- Wobbler.
- Racing
Description: Players will have to drive various vehicles and exchange messages with bots or other players in high-speed passage of various tracks.
Examples:
- Bus Simulator 3D;
- Huggy Waggy Motocross;
- Shift race: Car Racing;
- Kart Race;
- Gravity Moto Race;
- Traffic Racer.
- For kids
Description: Games designed to develop children and brighten up their leisure time. They are distinguished by simple complexity, large and clear graphic elements and intuitive controls.
Examples:
- For kids Let's teach Luntik;
- Math for kids. Fixies;
- English for children. Fixies;
- Word search for kids;
- Coloring pages for kids;
- Quiz Kids.
- AR-games
Description: Using augmented reality to transfer part of the gameplay from the virtual to the real world. They use surrounding elements to help the player complete various tasks.
Examples:
- AR Travel;
- AR Gotek New Year;
- GimaQuest;
- AR Tourism;
- Amusement Park VR Game;
- KidZLab.
- Indie
Description: Game projects created by independent authors and small teams without the help of publishers.
Examples:
- Brain trainers;
- Bookshelf;
- Mysterious lands;
- Giza's Dream;
- Escape Sideways;
- Running Fish.
- Casino
Description: Simulators of popular casino games: poker, slots, roulette and etc. The player will have to score the maximum number of points or virtual currency.
Examples:
- Poker Games: World Poker Club;
- Slots game Fruit paradise;
- Livegames Club;
- Fred's Slots;
- Pocket Chips: poker chips.
- Casual
Description: Games with simple gameplay, intuitive controls and clear victory conditions. The player doesn't need much action to win. Suitable for quick play.
Examples:
- Golden Farm: Farm and Adventure;
- Forgotten Treasure 2: match-three;
- Balloons: Bubble Breaker;
- Color Lines;
- Find the differences;
- Bridge Stick.
- Cards
Description: Games with a basic set of cards that the player must use to win. You can play with both bots and real opponents.
Examples:
- Collection of card solitaire;
- Poker. Online duel;
- Thousand (1000);
- Durak Online 3D;
- Classic Solitaire-7;
- Livegames Club.
- Music
Description: Apps with a different set of sounds, as well as for learning to play built-in instruments.
Examples:
- GLGuitar: guitar simulator;
- Sounds of cats and kittens: meowing, purring;
- Animal sounds for kids;
- Car sound: horn, alarm, key fob, brakes;
- Breakout 3D;
- Ice Samurai.
- Board games
Description: Virtual analogues of popular board games, in which players take turns on a limited playing field, following pre-agreed rules.
Examples:
- Chess;
- Sea battle 18th century;
- Mini Billiards;
- Poker;
- Majan;
- Tag-7.
- Adventures
Description: A genre based on an external virtual world or characters to solve puzzles. There are tips and hints to help players.
Examples:
- Golden Farm: Farm and Adventure;
- Megacraft: Minecraft Creative;
- Slaughter;
- Raid & Rush;
- Through the Looking Glass;
- World of Wonders: Fusion and Magic.
- RPG
Description: Players need to create a virtual character by completing various tasks and interacting with elements of the game world. You have to look for different objects, fight enemies, and create your own elements of the world.
Examples:
- Barbarian : Blood and Glory;
- Guild of Heroes: Action MMORPG;
- My Farm;
- Tanks : Steel Legion;
- TechnoMagic;
- Mage Battle: New Era.
- Family
Description: Games that children and parents can play together. They feature simple plots and tasks, as well as intuitive controls.
Examples:
- Learning to read the ABC Smeshariki;
- English for children. Fixies;
- Our films - photo quiz;
- Treasures of the Underwater World;
- Connect and Match;
- Tasty World: Kitchen for Girls.
- Simulation
Description: Games with the most advanced processing tools in the virtual world. Managing equipment and devices, participating in competitions and solving problems in various professions.
Examples:
- Fishing: World of Fishers;
- Bus Simulator 3D;
- Tank Force;
- Farm Frenzy;
- Skyscraper of Dreams: New Heights;
- Bob's Dream Cafe: Bikini Bottom.
- Conversation games
Description: Games in which various tasks with words are given: searching for sequences, guessing words, etc.
Examples:
- Crosses - crosswords in russian;
- Philwords - find the words;
- Guess the Words;
- Word Maze: find the words;
- Scanword of the Day;
- LETTER.
- Sports
Description: Imitation of sports games and discipline. The player will have to become a team member, coach or manager.
Examples:
- Soccer Manager 2023;
- Extreme Basketball. Ragdoll dunk;
- Mini Billiards;
- Towns 3d;
- Domino;
- Quiz Football Russia.
- Strategies
Description: Games, requiring the selection of an optimal strategy to accomplish a given objective, both real-time and turn-based. The player will control not a single character, but a group - a military unit, a team of specialists, an enterprise, a universe, and so on.
Examples:
- Last Day on Earth: Survival;
- Armor Age：Tanks of World War;
- Heroes of war and money: Strategy;
- Space Arena: Collect Ships;
- Mage Battle: New Era;
- Caribbean Pirates.
- Action
Description: Games in which the player has to interact with opponents or dangerous objects. He will be in the center of the plot and fight with enemies.
Examples:
- Warface: GO;
- Tank Force;
- Guild of Heroes: Action MMORPG;
- Art of War 3: RTS strategy;
- Inspire Helicopter;
- Gun War Z2.