It is estimated that 25 percent apps downloaded by mobile app users worldwide were only used once during the first six months of ownership. In the ephemeral world of apps, downloads do not equal retention.
Gaming leads in terms of downloads as well. Other leading app categories based on terms of availability are business apps, education apps, lifestyle apps and entertainment apps. Regarding availability, the most popular Apple App Store category is gaming with about 23 percent of available apps belonging to this category. This figure included gaming apps, which account for about half of the release applications. In May 2016, the number of applications submitted for release to the App Store surpassed 50,000 for the first time. The growth in number of apps available is directly related to the number of applications for the release of newly developed apps. This figure includes 1 million native iPad apps. The number of available apps reached 1.5 million by June 2015, 10 times more than the early 2010 number. In March of 2010, there were 150 thousand available apps in the App Store. As of the last reported period, Apple announced that 180 billion apps had been downloaded from its App Store.Īpp Store download – additional informationĪpple App Store was created in 2008 and, since then, the number of available apps has been consistently increasing over the years. Figures represent aggregate installs of all app versions, ex: Facebook and Facebook Lite.This statistic shows the number of cumulative app downloads from Apple's App Store from July 2008 to June 2017.
Android estimates do not include third-party stores. Apple apps and Google pre-installed apps are excluded. Our estimates include downloads for the App Store and Google Play worldwide between Apand April 30, 2021. Store Intelligence users can see app download estimates for the above apps in addition to historical performance metrics on the Sensor Tower platform. Want to see how the rankings compared to the previous month? Check out the Top Apps Worldwide for March 2021 by Downloads here. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger rounded out the top five most installed non-gaming apps worldwide for the month.
The countries with the largest number of Facebook installs were from India at 26 percent, followed by the United States at 7 percent. App download estimates are from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform.įacebook was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month with more than 53 million installs.
The full top 10 ranking of non-gaming apps worldwide by downloads for April 2021 is above. The countries with the largest number of TikTok installs were from Brazil at 13 percent, followed by Douyin in China at 12 percent. TikTok was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for April 2021 with more than 59 million installs.