Disclaimer: I'm Indian, I'm writing from my experience here. I can't speak for any of the three countries you mentioned, but I think you can extrapolate. In th

Disclaimer: I'm Indian, I'm writing from my experience here. I can't speak for any of the three countries you mentioned, but I think you can extrapolate. In the Indian market most of these apps are just free and ad supported, by which I mean they are filled to the brim with banner ads and every action requires going through an interstitial ad. As for this, though: > where are all the local apps taking over the world with their low prices? There's a ton of shovelware made in developing countries on the Play store, it's just not good. Most of them have bad UI, bad UX and/or the ad problem I mentioned earlier, making them unappealing to anybody who can afford an alternative. There's also the fact that apps made locally target local customers for region-specific use cases, so you're not likely to find them useful if you're not from the region (and that is, if you can find them at all in the Play store without any marketing targeted at you!) I know of a few decent to good apps that have to do with Indian accounting etc, and they're making good money at low prices but nobody in the US is going to use them because they're made with the Indian GST and accounting principles in mind. An implication is that these apps don't follow US/EU regulations. There was an Indian-made fertility app that was collecting data that was flagrantly in violation of GDPR (https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3196/no-bodys-business-mine-how-menstruations-apps-are-sharing-your-data https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3196/no-bodys-bus..., search for "Maya by Plackal Tech".) To them, the additional work required to be GDPR compliant is not worth it, given that the domestic market is big enough for them at the early stage.