Fruits play an important role in nourishment of human being by providing different types of their products. Fruit crops are affected by a number of pathogens of different origin in which species of Alternaria, a group of fungal disease causing agents, are one of them. Twenty important fruit crops of tropical and temperate regions have been observed to suffer from 14 species of Alternaria which cause leaf spots and blight and also rotting of fruits in orchards and during transit and storage. Symptomatology of different types of diseases of fruit crops along with association of Alternaria spp. with them have been dealt in this review. Some species of Alternaria have been noticed to cause the disease to a particular host family, host genus on specific plant species. Based on the nature of disease and its severity, the successful management strategy can be adopted.