app vs computer program

app

noun
  • An application (program), especially a small one designed for a mobile device. 

  • application (to a college etc.) 

  • appetizer 

  • an appearance in a game (e.g., a player with 10 apps in a season played 10 times) 

  • application (use, purpose; not a computer program) 

computer program

noun
  • A complete piece of software. A set of instructions for a computer. This term can refer to either the executable form that a computer can execute (executable code) or the human readable form (source code). (Several programs, each of which does a task, can be collected as a software package or suite). 

How often have the words app and computer program occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )