Apple's popular App Store already hosts 65,000 apps and Laurs has predicted a continued flurry of new apps to the market before the end of 2009.
"They will peak at around 100,000 by the end of the year," said Laurs at the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco. "That will be a tipping point and after that there will be a gradual fall in the rate of development."
GetJar runs a community website of 200,000 people and distributes apps across multiple devices. But it's Apple that has mainly created and benefitted from the rise in apps. Last week the company reached 1.5 billion app downloads since the launch of the store.
While the App Store is becoming saturated with apps, brands and developers are likely to turn their attention to developing apps for devices for handset manufactureres Nokia, Research in Motion, Palm and operators including Vodafone and O2.
All are seeking to replicate the success of Apple's App Store and mobile executives at MobileBeat are predicting that apps will become as popular as websites, given time.
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