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TikTok Become The World’s Most Downloaded Mobile App in 2020

Sonia Martin by Sonia Martin
December 17, 2020
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TikTok has become the world’s most downloaded app in 2020, surpassing Facebook, according to a mobile app analytics agency App Annie. The short video-sharing app has been the most downloaded in the world on both Android and iOS devices this year globally. TikTok jumped the list by three spots and is projected by analytical firm App Annie to break into the 1 billion monthly active user club next year. 

The ongoing pandemic has quickened our versatile utilization by a few years; perhaps the greatest region of development this year was time spent on cell phones. The greatest classes of development in time spent incorporate business applications, which were up 200 percent, because of conferencing devices, for example, Zoom.

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The ongoing pandemic situation has increased our mobile usage time so that users downloaded and used many entertainment apps. The business apps growth is unbelievable, that was up 200 percent, the main credits goes to conferencing apps such as Zoom, Google Meets, and Microsoft teams.

Highest Downloaded Mobile Apps in 2020

App Annie’s 2020 mobile app report listed the top ten popular apps of the year in terms of ‘Total number of downloads’, ‘Consumer spend time’ and ‘Monthly active users’. The information is based on App Annie’s data tracking, which is not as reliable as official user counts posted by the companies themselves, but it is indicative enough to provide an overview of comparative performance in the market.

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As you can see in the chart, both TikTok and Zoom have seen striking increases in download activity in 2020 – with Zoom rising 219 spots on the downloads chart. Along with Zoom, Google Meet also in that list which is an alternative to the video conferencing app. Likee app also remains in the top 10, despite not being as widely known as the other apps in the list. The Singaporean video app was looking to make a bigger push in the US market earlier this year but appears to have changed its plans as a result of COVID-19.

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TikTok kept on being the most downloaded non-gaming application in the play store and app store for the 6th time in succession. ByteDance owned TikTok climbed the top position for being the most downloaded application worldwide back in May supplanting the video-conferencing application Zoom, which held the best position in April this year. Since then TikTok has stayed in the top spot as per the Sensor Tower report. 

As of October 2020, TikTok was downloaded and installed around 66Million times which is a 9.5% increase when compared to October 2019. The countries with the most installs of the app during this period were from Douyin in China at 12% of its total downloads and Brazil at 10%, the Sensor Tower report said.

Where ass social media giant Facebook and WhatsApp Messenger got second and third place respectively. While the video communication and cloud meeting app Zoom came in fourth and another Facebook-owned image-sharing app Instagram in the top five. Telegram has also moved up ten positions, while Messenger fell five places in comparison to last year.

WhatsApp messenger was the second most installed non-gaming app that has 57 million more installs. While taking a country-wise report of Whatsapp installation, India was the first position at 30 percent, followed by Nigeria at 10 percent.

Top 5 Most Downloaded App on Google Play Store 2020

  1. TikTok
  2. WhatsApp
  3. Facebook
  4. Snack Video and 
  5. Instagram 

Top 5 Most Downloaded on Apple Store 2020

  1. TikTok
  2. Zoom 
  3. YouTube
  4. Instagram and
  5. Taobao

Top 5 Most Downloaded Games Apps in 2020

Here is the list of most downloaded games on the play store.

  1. Free Fire
  2. Subway Surfers
  3. Among Us
  4. PUBG Mobile and 
  5. Gardenscapes: New Acres
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The above stats are based on the Sensor Tower report. 

USA, Japan, and the UK are the top markets driving growth for the iOS platform, while South Korea, Germany, and the US top the list for Google Play Store. 

As per the research, globally games were the biggest categories of growth along with business, and finance. Brazil, India, and Indonesia were the largest contributors to growth in downloads on Google Play. Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the USA mobile users are the top in downloads on iOS. 

Tinder topped the record of this program with the majority of customer spend, followed closely by TikTok, which jumped 15 places up. YouTube, Disney+, and Tencent Video are following in the listing. By the report, Disney+ had a standout year for expansion this year, after its rollout to European and Latin American markets.

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Sonia Martin is a Content marketer and editor for Social Singam, the best social media news updates blog. She is a Digital marketing expert and WordPress fanatic who works closely with B2B and B2c Businesses providing content that gains social media attention and increase their search visibility. She enjoys traveling adventures, foodie and reading books when she's not working.

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