The site has seen a significant increase in the range of social and communication applications available to consumers, which is also reflected in the level of downloads taking place. GPS and location-based applications have been also growing in popularity this year.
In the UK and USA, messaging applications are among the most popular, together with browsers and mobile utilities, GetJar statement added.
"To supply 100 million downloads to our users is not only a great achievement, but demonstrates how the use of mobile technology has developed far beyond phone calls and SMS messaging to richer communication, information and business applications," said Ilja Laurs, founder and CEO of GetJar.
There has also been rapid growth in the number of mobile developers around the world, who co-operate with GetJar's community of mobile users to aid product development.
Mei Lin Ng, co-founder/VP at mobile community site mig33 said, "Getjar has been important to our success in the mobile application space. They make it easy to deploy new applications from developers like ourselves, and even easier for mobile consumers out there to download the applications."
