The company was founded by Ilja Laurs in 2004, who is currently its Executive Chairman, and Chris Dury, who is the CEO.

[1] Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management are among the investors.

The platform started making free apps available in early 2005.

In June 2010, about 300,000 software developers added apps to GetJar resulting in over one billion downloads.

In 2020 it was reported, that the downfall of GetJar marketplace was also affected by malware risks inside the website and the apps.