The Million Pound Drop is an Android app developed by Channel 4 Television Corporation (124 Horseferry Road London SW1P 2TX). Others apps created by Channel 4 Television Corporation are: Eden: The Game.

The Million Pound Drop first became available on 27 Jul 2012. It is estimated that The Million Pound Drop has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

The Million Pound Drop 1.6 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.