2021 has its share of unusual times, but mobile apps continue to be reliable tools for work, entertainment, communication and shopping. While people spend leisure time using television broadcasts like Netflix or scrolling on social networking sites such as Instagram, they stay connected to Zoom and Facebook. But TikTok established itself as the most popular app of the year.
Apptopia has compiled its own list of the most downloaded apps for 2021, and the video sharing app holds the top spot among global users. Apptopia collects data from mobile application stores to check which sites have grown the most and which types have received the highest number of downloads. Analyzing information from Google Play and the iOS’App Store, the company has identified the top 10 mobile apps in the U.S. and on earth. ByteDance-owned TikTok sits in first place on both charts.
According to Apptopia’s global list, TikTok has 656 million downloads by 2021. Followed by Instagram (545 million), Facebook (416 million), WhatsApp (395 million), Telegram (329 million), Snapchat (327 million), Zoom (300). million), Messenger (268 million), CapCut (255 million) and Spotify (203 million). It is noteworthy that ByteDance is also the parent company of CapCut, a free video editing app that allows users to create and edit clips – which can be sent to TikTok.
In the US, 94T million TikTok downloads surpass 64 million Instagram posts. But the other top ten in the world include Snapchat (56 million), Cash App (56 million), Zoom (52 million), Messenger (51 million), Facebook (47.3 million), WhatsApp (47.2 million), YouTube (47 million), and HBO Max (45 million). Inside, HBO Max defeated its broadcast rivals on TV and rode Netflix to number 2.
Compared to Apptopia’s 2020 findings, TikTok is still ranked number 1 but had the highest download volume last year worldwide. But in 2021 you saw a video application download in the U.S. rising by 6 million.