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Microsoft has broken the 25,000 app barrier in the Windows Phone Marketplace, roughly half of which are free to download. The figure – which stands at 25,056 at time of writing – comes courtesy of software-tracker Windows Phone Applist, though Microsoft itself is yet to confirm the milestone.

Previous waypoints have included $9,000 applications in early March, growing to over 18,000 when the new online Windows Phone Marketplace portal was announced in late May. Back in October, at the WP7 launch, there were a mere 1,000 titles to choose from; now, Microsoft claims it has over 40,000 registered Windows Phone developers, and sees on average 100 new apps submitted each day.