Short answer: it depends on what you count. Odoo itself ships 78 official apps, counted in the Apps menu of a current Odoo database (checked July 2026), spread over 13 categories. The Odoo App Store (apps.odoo.com) contains far more: over 80,000 apps and modules in total, combining Odoo’s own apps, paid partner apps and free community modules across all versions. As of July 2026 the store reports roughly 80,800. If you have read that Odoo has “40,000 community modules”, that figure is simply out of date, the ecosystem has roughly doubled.
The three numbers people mix up
Most confusion about “how many apps does Odoo have” comes from conflating three different things.
- Official Odoo apps (78). These are the apps Odoo builds and maintains itself, the tiles in the Apps menu. This is the number that matters for “what can Odoo do out of the box”.
- The Odoo App Store total (80,000+). Everything published on apps.odoo.com: official apps, paid apps from Odoo partners, and free community modules, across every supported version. As of July 2026: ~80,800. This is the number that shows how large the ecosystem is.
- What you actually install (a handful). The apps that map to your real processes. For a mid-sized company that is usually somewhere between five and fifteen.
Quoting the wrong one of these leads to nonsense, either “Odoo only has a few dozen apps” (true only for the official core) or “you get 80,000 apps” (true only for the store total, most of which you will never touch).
Which apps does Odoo have? The list by category
This is what most people are actually after, and here it comes from the only source that settles it: an Odoo database itself. We opened Odoo’s public demo (Odoo Online, checked 29 July 2026), filtered the Apps menu on apps, and counted. The result is 78 official apps across 13 categories:
| Category | Apps | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Human Resources | 15 | Employees, Recruitment, Time Off, Appraisals, Referral, Fleet, Payroll, Attendances, Frontdesk, Lunch |
| Sales | 11 | CRM, Sales, Point of Sale, Restaurant, Subscriptions, Rental, Invoicing |
| Shipping Connectors | 10 | DHL Express, UPS, FedEx, Envia, Starshipit, Lazada Connector |
| Productivity | 9 | Discuss, Documents, Knowledge, Sign, Approvals, WhatsApp Messaging, Meeting Rooms, Data Recycle, AI |
| Supply Chain | 8 | Inventory, Purchase, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Quality, PLM, Barcode, Repairs |
| Marketing | 7 | Email Marketing, Marketing Automation, SMS Marketing, Social Marketing, Events, Survey, Marketing Card |
| Website | 5 | Website, eCommerce, Blog, Forum, eLearning |
| Services | 5 | Project, Timesheets, Field Service, Helpdesk, Planning |
| Accounting | 3 | Accounting, Expenses, Equity |
| Administration | 2 | Databases, Obox (Odoo IoT management) |
| ESG | 1 | ESG |
| Customizations | 1 | Studio |
| Technical | 1 | (technical modules) |
That is the real answer, and it explains why so many published lists look incomplete. Two categories in particular rarely make anyone’s overview: Shipping Connectors (ten carrier integrations, a full eighth of the total) and the long tail of HR apps (fifteen, more than any other category).
Why sources disagree on the number
You will find “40 apps”, “60 apps” and “80 apps” all presented as fact, sometimes by the same AI assistant on different days. Here is what each figure is actually counting:
- ~40 is out of date. It was roughly right several versions ago and gets repeated by sources that never rechecked. If a tool tells you this today, treat the rest of its answer with the same suspicion.
- ~60 is the marketing grid: the headline apps on Odoo’s public all-apps page, grouped into nine categories. It leaves out the shipping connectors and much of the HR tail.
- 78 is what the software actually shows: the Apps menu in a current Odoo database, in the thirteen categories above. This is the number we would defend.
So the honest answer to “how many apps does Odoo have” is 78 as of July 2026, with two caveats worth stating: the count moves with each release, and availability differs between Community and Enterprise, so your own Apps menu may be shorter.
App or module: what is the difference?
The terms overlap, which is why the counts get used interchangeably.
- A module is a package of code that adds functionality to Odoo.
- An app is usually a larger, headline module that shows up as a tile in the Apps menu (Sales, Inventory, Accounting). Smaller technical modules extend or connect those apps behind the scenes.
The App Store lists both under a single “Apps found” counter, so when a source says “80,000 apps” and another says “80,000 modules”, they are pointing at the same store total.
Free or paid?
The store total is not a count of free software. It is a mix:
- Community modules are open-source and free to download.
- Official Odoo apps are included in your Odoo subscription (Standard or Custom).
- Partner apps in the store are often paid one-off purchases, built by third parties.
So “80,000+ apps” says nothing about price. It says the ecosystem is deep, in both free and commercial directions.
Community versus Enterprise
One more distinction shapes what is available to you. Odoo comes in two editions:
- Community, the free, open-source edition.
- Enterprise / Standard / Custom, the paid editions with the full set of official apps, mobile, studio, and support.
Community modules from the store work on the Community edition; many official apps and partner apps target the paid editions. The right edition is a fit question, not a “more is better” one, which brings us to the number that actually matters.
The number that actually matters
Here is the honest part. You do not implement 80 apps, let alone 80,000. A large ecosystem is a sign of health, not a to-do list. The work of a good implementation is the opposite of maximising app count: it is curation, choosing the few apps that match the processes you actually run, and configuring them so they work as one system.
We see it on every project. A company does not need “an app for everything”; it needs the right handful, set up well, on one database, so that a quote flows into an order, into production, into an invoice, into the cost price and back. Ten apps that fit beat forty that half-fit.
So when someone asks “how many apps does Odoo have”, the useful follow-up is: which ones do you actually need? That is a much shorter list, and it is the list worth spending time on.
Frequently asked questions
How many apps does Odoo have? 78, counted in the Apps menu of a current Odoo database in July 2026, across 13 categories. The App Store separately lists over 80,000 apps and modules (Odoo, partners and community combined), roughly 80,800.
What is the difference between an Odoo app and a module? A module is any code package that adds functionality; an app is a larger, headline module shown as a tile in the Apps menu. The store counts both together.
How many modules are in the Odoo App Store? More than 80,000. Older “40,000” figures are out of date; the ecosystem has roughly doubled.
Are Odoo apps free? A mix. Community modules are free; official apps come with a subscription; many partner apps are paid.
How many Odoo apps do you actually need? Usually a handful to a dozen, the ones that fit your real processes. Curation, not quantity, is the point.
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