The invention provides an application downloading method, a terminal, a server, computer equipment and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining file configuration information corresponding to at least two application file packages of a target application from a downloading configuration server in response to a file downloading trigger event for the target application; determining a to-be-downloaded target file package from the at least two application file packages based on the file configuration information and a shared file corresponding to a target application stored in the terminal equipment; downloading the target file package from the file resource server, wherein the at least two application file packages are obtained by performing file clustering on a plurality of application files of the target application according to a preset clustering condition. According to the application file downloading mode, the probability that the device downloads repeated files can be effectively reduced, the downloading speed can be increased, the downloading flow can be saved, the storage space of the device is effectively prevented from being occupied by repeated resources, and the running speed of the device can be increased.