Safaricom Appstore is an Android app developed by Safaricom Limited (Safaricom Limited P. O. Box 66827, 00800 Nairobi Telephone: +254 20 427 3272 / 0722 00 3272). Others apps created by Safaricom Limited are: Safaricom M-Ledger, mySafaricom.

Safaricom Appstore first became available on 29 Apr 2014. It is estimated that Safaricom Appstore has been downloaded between 100000 and 500000 times from the Play Store.

Safaricom Appstore 1.3 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows an application to install a shortcut in Launcher.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the user's call log.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.