The mobile It has become an essential part of our lives, not only because of the ease of communicating anytime, anywhere. Also due to the countless applications that we have available to use in them, apps with which we can do practically anything we want.
Of course, since 2020 of the pandemic and during 2021 of the adaptation to the “new normal”, the use of mobile applications continued to gain strength expanding even more in its different fields. This is how more and more platforms have emerged for different purposes, such as video chats as an alternative to classes, delivery apps to be able to make purchases without leaving home… and of course, games.
The most downloaded apps in the world
According to Digital Report 2022, based on data from App Anniethe most downloaded applications in the world during 2021 were the following:
- Telegram
- Snapchat
- FacebookMessenger
- Zoom Cloud Meetings
- capcut
To break down this ranking, TikTok continues to be for the second year in a row the most downloaded mobile app worldwide, adding the downloads of Douyin, the version of the platform exclusively for China.
Then we appreciate notable changes in the list: Instagram moves up to second place in 2021 after finishing fifth in 2020, Facebook drops one position and is now third (it was second in 2020), WhatsApp falls from the third to the fourth seat, while Telegram closes the top five after being ninth the previous year.
Also noteworthy is the decrease in Zoom Cloud Meetings to eighth place after being fourth in 2020, the fall from sixth to seventh place of FacebookMessengerthe rise of Snapchat (from eighth to sixth place) and the appearance of capcut (video editing app from the same parent company as TikTok, ByteDance) Y Spotify in the ninth and tenth steps, respectively, without having been part of the Top 10 of 2020. Consequently, they leave this list of 2021 google-meet (7th in 2020) and Netflix (10th in 2020).
The most downloaded mobile games in the world
As for the most downloaded mobile games, the Top 10 of the Digital Report 2022 looks like this:
- Garena Free Fire
- Subway Surfers
- Roblox
- Bridge Race
- Candy Crush Saga
- PUBG Mobile
- Ludo King
- Hair Challenge
- Among Us
- Join Clash 3D
As can be seen, Garena Free Fire repeats as the most downloaded game on mobile phones around the world, as in 2020. As with conventional apps, from second place there are important changes: Subway Surfers, which was third the previous year, displaces Among Us from second on the 2021 list, dropping the successful Innersloth title dramatically to ninth this time around. The podium is completed by a game that did not appear in the Top 10 of 2020 and whose popularity is still stronger than ever: Roblox (3).
In fourth place, another novelty with respect to the previous list: Bridge Racelike Candy Crush Saga (5), Hair Challenge (8) and Join Clash 3D (10). In the meantime, PUBG Mobile falls from fourth to sixth place in this new list and Ludo King up from tenth to seventh place.
Compared to 2020, the games that occupied that list from fifth to ninth place are not seen in the 2021 ranking: Gardenscapes – New Acres (5), Hunter Assassin (6), Brain Out (7), My Talking Tom Friends (8), and Tiles Hop: EDM Rush (9).
Applications with the highest number of active users in the world
Even if an application is among the most downloaded, it does not mean that it has a greater number of users. We can see this in the following list:
- FacebookMessenger
- amazon
- TikTok
- Telegram
- Spotify
- Netflix
Compared to the list in the previous report, Facebook It is once again the application with the most active users in a year, as in the 2020 list.
In the meantime, WhatsApp remains in second place in 2021 as FacebookMessenger in third place, Instagram in fourth place and amazon in fifth place. tiktok, For its part, it rises to sixth place in 2021 after being eighth the previous year.
Secondly, Telegram rises to the seventh step in the list of most active apps, after not appearing in the ranking of the previous year, while Twitter drops to eighth place in relation to sixth place in the previous report, Spotify remains in the ninth box, the same position it occupied in the 2020 ranking, Netflix drops to tenth box after being seventh in 2020 and Snapchatwhich was precisely number 10 in 2020, disappears this time from this list.
For their part, the mobile games with the highest number of active users last year were:
- PUBG Mobile
- Roblox
- Candy Crush Saga
- Garena Free Fire
- Among Us
- Ludo King
- Minecraft Pocket Edition
- Subway Surfers
- Call Of Duty: Mobile
- Pokémon GO
As for active users in mobile games, PUBG Mobile remains in the seat of honor in 2021 after occupying that same place in 2020. Roblox went from sixth place in 2020 to second in 2021, dropping to Candy Crush Saga to the third seat.
Complete the top five Garena Free Fire (4th place in 2021 after being fifth in 2020) Y Among Us, that in 2020 it was fourth place on the list after being one of the great events of the year in terms of video games, this time going down to the fifth step. The list also highlights the fall of Ludo Kingwhich went from being third in 2020 to sixth place during 2021, Subway Surfers remaining eighth, the exchange of positions from one year to another between Minecraft Pocket Edition (going from position 9 to 7) and Call Of Duty: Mobile (from 7 to 9) and Pokemon GO following in tenth place in relation to 2020.
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