Apptopia, an analysis company, has just published its annual ranking of the most downloaded Android and iOS applications around the world, and the least we can say is that social networks have had the coast this year .
Among the 10 most downloaded Android and iOS applications in the world in 2021, we find, unsurprisingly, TikTok at the top of the chart with 656 million downloads. That’s less than last year’s 850 million downloads, but it’s enough to take it to the top of the 2021 charts. Last summer, TikTok managed to become more popular than YouTube on Android and iOS, and the Chinese social network had even managed to dethrone Google by becoming the most visited site in the world a few days ago.
There are also 4 applications belonging to Meta, the new name of the Facebook group. The most popular app is Instagram, with 545 million downloads, followed by Facebook with 416 million downloads, then WhatsApp with 395 million. Messenger, the instant messaging application, has to settle for 8th place in the ranking with 268 million downloads.
Telegram joins the TOP 5 thanks to WhatsApp
Telegram manages to climb to 5th place among the most popular apps this year with 329 million downloads, but this success is largely due to WhatsApp. Indeed, Telegram had gained more than 70 million users thanks to a global WhatsApp outage. It is therefore not very surprising to see the application so high in the ranking.
For its part, Snapchat ranks 6th with 327 million downloads. The social network is closely followed by Zoom and its 300 million downloads. Zoom has seen its popularity explode in recent years, in particular because of the COVID-19 pandemic which has greatly contributed to democratizing teleworking and remote meetings.. In 2020, the video conferencing app was even more popularsince it had been downloaded no less than 477 million times worldwide.
At the bottom of the ranking, we find CapCut, a video editing application, with 255 million downloads, then Spotify, the famous music streaming application, with 203 million downloads.
Source : Apptopia
