The present disclosure provides a method for providing an application list. The method includes: a mobile terminal records and processes information on a user's usage of third party applications to obtain history data about the third party applications, matches the history data about the third party applications with application information in a database of an application store, forms a third party application selection list from the matched result, and pushes the content of the third party application selection list to a display interface of the application store on the mobile terminal. An apparatus for providing an application list is also provided. The method and the apparatus can push different third party application selection lists to different users, display the third party applications in which users may be interested to indirectly realize user's customization, enable a user to rapidly choose and purchase the third party applications the user like, improve the purchasing and using ratio of various applications in the application store, and ensure Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) of an operator.