Al Meera App Download Race

Scans are logged by our own redirect the moment a QR code is scanned. There is no minimum — a store's count is visible from scan number one, which is why scans decide the ranking and downloads only confirm them.

Downloads come from Apple and Google and confirm that a scan turned into a real install. Apple hides any campaign with fewer than five installs, and Play groups low-volume campaigns into “Other”. A store showing scans with no downloads yet is expected at low volume, not an error.

Conversion can also read above 100%, because Apple and Google attribute installs that never came through our QR code.

When a link is shared in WhatsApp or Teams, that app fetches the page to build a preview card. Those hits are logged for the record but excluded from every figure here, so sharing a link in a group chat cannot inflate a store's total. Repeat scans from the same device inside two minutes are excluded the same way — the first counts, the rest are logged.

All of it is listed on the review page.

All times are Qatar time, and a day runs midnight to midnight there. Scans outside the contest window are logged but never counted, so the final standings stop moving when the contest closes.

Two stores on the same number of scans hold the same position — the next position down is skipped. Movement arrows compare against 7 days ago and appear once there is a week of history to compare with.