Google Play has been around for a while as has Android itself. Thus, there are actually quite a few apps that achieved true popular over the years. Many call it the three comma club, the over one billion downloads mark is one of the rarest achievements an app can have.
With 2. Two popular console franchises, Call of Duty and Mario Kart , recently entered the mobile market to become two of the most successful games in the category. The free mobile version of Call of Duty had the second best quarter of any mobile game ever, with million worldwide downloads. The success of these apps can be attributed to their already established consumer base, and the evident shift in more gamers moving to mobile platforms as smartphone technology and processing speeds improve.
The app economy is also being fueled by growth in emerging markets including China, India, Brazil and Russia, thanks to faster internet speeds and increasing smartphone adoption rates. The country witnessed nearly 5 billion app installs in the last quarter of —surging ahead of the U.
Note: As Google Play is not available in China, the country was excluded from this chart. With an explosion in user spending, and seemingly endless opportunities for innovation, the global app economy shows a tremendous amount of promise, but is still in its early days. This is double the size of the global sneaker market, and nearly three times the size of the oral care industry. Rising consumer spend combined with other forms of monetization, such as advertising and mobile commerce, could soon enable the app market to surpass the trillion dollar barrier in revenue.
Some unicorns are little-known companies making quiet but impactful strides in software, healthcare, automotive, and other fields. Others have already become well-known industry leaders, like aerospace manufacturer SpaceX and game developer and publisher Epic Games.
In total, there are more than unicorn startups globally. Many of the most valuable startups are already giants in their fields. Share Learn more. App downloads. Game downloads. Number of downloads. Sign Up , it unlocks many cool features! As of the third quarter of , the most popular app categories worldwide were Most downloaded social app from global Android users.
Slowly but surely, Venmo and other payment apps are becoming the preferred method for sending and accepting payments for purchases, gifts, and donations. These days, cash — and even credit cards — can prove to be inconvenient, especially if. As the app was a gatekeeper for getting into pubs, the entire country jumped on it, with over 10 million downloads in the first three days. Work-from-home and online teaching have led to three apps — Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet — hitting the top 10 most popular.
China is the outlier, with the Great Firewall blocking almost all of the apps built by US and European companies. WeChat has embedded itself into the Chinese society unlike any app in the West, and continues to expand its platform outward with the integration of Pinduoduo and DiDi.
As a side note, DiDi is not represented here as it does not reveal its monthly active users. Analysts have projected it to be in the to million range, and it has an internal target of million by TikTok was on track to hit million downloads in India, however the government banned the app in July. In this section, we take a look at the ten most popular apps of the year by app category.
All values are global unless stated otherwise and do not include downloads from third-party Chinese Android app stores. Among Us is the runaway success story of After struggling to gain a following for two years, it went viral after several YouTube and Twitch streams from popular personalities, and hit million monthly active users in October Roblox also had a breakout year, and is expected to IPO in Facebook also launched its own clone, Reels, on Instagram earlier this year.
The other big winner is Pinterest, which saw a massive uptick in users this year, with its stock price climbing over percent since the start of For businesses, Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have broadened their services to enable teams to work from home. Discord has also attempted to rebrand itself as a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers.
Even with over two billion monthly active users, YouTube saw million downloads in Even though not on the list, TikTok has proven to be a fierce competitor for YouTube, and Google has responded by launching short-form videos on the platform. Similar for Tencent Video, which is the most popular video streaming service in China. Whether Google can continue to support to well is another question, the past decade of failed music and messaging apps makes it a hard sell.
Amazon is the key e-commerce platforms in most countries outside of India and China. In India, Flipkart remains the most popular e-commerce platform, however the difference is less than 1 percent between the two e-commerce services.
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