As of 2019, the global Android App download rankings

introduction

It is difficult to rank the global Android apps in order to understand the most popular apps among users. This is because new apps are created and die every moment. An app may have existed for ten years, and its download base is relatively large due to its seniority. Or a new app may be very popular, but it was born late, resulting in a relatively small number of downloads.

In short, it is difficult to completely rank apps, but Android Rank ranks apps based on the number of reviews and the number of people who have reviewed them, which still gives us a glimpse of the most popular Android apps in the world.

How many apps are there in the world?

As of the end of 2019, there were 290,706 apps with more than 10,000 installations worldwide. Among them, there were 47 apps with installations between 500 million and 1 billion, 37 apps with installations between 1 billion and 5 billion, and 12 apps with installations between 5 billion and 10 billion.

Global App Download Rankings - Sort by Number of User Reviews

As mentioned above, we believe that if an app has more reviews, it means that the app has more users and naturally more downloads. Therefore, the number of reviews can better reflect the popularity of the app.

If a user downloads the same app multiple times, the downloads will be counted twice, so it is more reasonable to use the number of reviews.

From the following figure, we can see the top 20 most popular apps among more than 300,000 apps worldwide. Among them, four apps owned by Facebook: WhatsApp (chat software), Facebook (social software), Instagram (photo software), and Messenger (chat software) dominate the list. In other words, the rankings 1-4 are all occupied by Facebook. Google's Youtbue ranks 5th.

Among the top 10, only one Chinese app, Clean Master (Cheetah's Clean Master), made it into the rankings, with more than 1 billion downloads. Among the top 20, UC Browser, ranked 17th, had more than 500 million downloads, even surpassing Google's Chrome, which shows that UC Browser has been recognized by users around the world.

Global App Download Rankings - Sort by Download Count

If sorted by download volume, the top five are: WhatsApp, Facebook, Youtube, Google Play Service and Chrome. After all, Android is developed by Google, so it can gain a first-mover advantage.

Global App Download Rankings - Ranking by Growth Rate in the Last 60 Days

If we look at the ranking by growth rate in the last 60 days, domestically produced TikTok and Kwai are on the list, becoming the short video software most widely used by global users.

in conclusion

This statistics is mainly for the Android operating system and does not include Apple apps. The data comes from the Google store. Due to well-known reasons, the number of domestic app downloads may not be reflected in this list.

This list reflects a global head-on competition between Chinese and American apps.

In other words, whether it is Indian users or Japanese users, when choosing an app, whether they choose WPS or Office, Google Maps or Baidu Maps, it is their freedom. What is being compared at this time is the strength of the Chinese and American apps.