Application recommendation method and electronic equipment

The embodiment of the invention provides an application recommendation method and electronic equipment, relates to the technical field of communication, and aims to solve the problem of inconveniencein operation of searching APP icons in a desktop interface in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of an icon of a first application in a desktop interface,wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the first application installed in the electronic equipment; in response to the first input, displaying a first interface on a desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface; wherein the second applications are applications belonging to the same application type as the first application,the M second applications comprise at least one of applications installed in the electronic equipment and applications not installed in the electronic equipment, and M is a positive integer. The method can be applied to a scen