Beyond hardware, the sale of mobile phones or tablets, there is another market that moves billions of euros every year, and that is the one of apps, which increasingly offer more benefits to developers. The graph of the most downloaded apps of 2019 reveals us which have been the most successful developers and the most promising applications.
Applications completely revolutionized the way we use mobile devices, now more than a decade ago, and all these years later the annual application download figures are astronomical for what we were used to.
Among the apps with the most downloads TikTok is the big surprise
One more year WhatsApp has become the most downloaded app on the planet, something that no longer surprises us, because it is the messaging app that hundreds of millions of users use every day. This has reached a figure of downloads close to 900 million, which is undoubtedly outrageous. But there has been an app that has been among the most downloaded, and that has great merit, since it is the one that has been on the market for the least time, we are talking about TikTok .
This has reached more than 700 million downloads, narrowly surpassing the third most downloaded, which is Facebook Messenger . The social network is in fourth position, bordering on 700 million downloads. The one that closes the five most downloaded apps is Instagram, which has had around 450 million downloads. Undoubtedly the big surprise is the TikTok, since although a large increase in downloads was expected, few expected that it had stayed so close to WahtsApp.
Who are the main app publishers?
It is evident that the main publisher of apps on the planet is Facebook , which has placed no less than four out of five apps in the top five of the most downloaded. Only TikTok has prevented him from having the first four places.
Behind Facebook are Google, ByteDance, which are the publishers of TikTok, as well as Voodoo and Tencent. Among the five new apps that have had the most impact on the market in terms of the number of downloads, one of the biggest surprises has been Disney +, which has been among the five most relevant of the year.
Google Play or App Store, where are more apps downloaded?
According to the figures provided, the store that has had the most downloads has been Google Play , while iOS once again lags behind in the number of them, something obvious on the other hand, as it has less market share.
In the case of WhatsApp we can see that in iOS it has been downloaded 100 million times during 2019, while in Android the downloads have been approximately 780 million. The same occurs with the other four most downloaded apps, which have done so on Google Play or the App Store in a fairly similar proportion.