One Apple ID for many phones. How to stop all phones downloading the same app?

Hi everyone,
In advance, I'd like to thank you for taking your time to read my question and helping me.
Currently, many members of my family have iPhones, ranging from 4 to 5, and for the sake of convenience, I set them all up using my Apple ID. Recently, each time one of us downloads an app, all the other phones automatically download them too. Is there a way to prevent that from happening? I'd like to keep the phones all on the same ID, so is there a setting that I change so that our phones will not receive each other's downloads?
Thank you all again.

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