Instagram, TikTok… discover the most downloaded apps at the end of 2021
2021 has ended and it’s time to do the results of his last quarter still marked by the Covid-19 pandemic which does not seem ready to disappear. If in 2020 it has already helped, by its successive confinements, certain companies, such as Netflix or Amazon, to explode their turnover, we see that the large application markets have been marked again this year. A brief overview of a changing world, but not entirely.
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A quarter of glory for Instagram
The website SensorTower has indeed delivered its analysis of the application market for the last quarter of 2021. Over the period, these are only no less than 36 billion apps that have been downloaded worldwide. We can see that the top of the ranking has changed since the big winner is Instagram. With an increase in its downloads of 10% compared to the previous quarter, it signs his best result since 2014 ! She finds herself in front of TikTok, depriving her of the gold medal for the first time in two years! Meta can rest easy since Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and WhatsApp Business are respectively third, fourth, seventh and thirteenth in the ranking.
Note in this top the high places held by applications unknown within our borders like Shopee, the Asian Ebay from Singapore, or Meesho, the Indian Ali Express. Capcut, a video editing application, is also making a name for itself with more than 70 million downloads between October and December. Small specificity of the European classification, we find there QR & Barcode Scanner in tenth place with over 11 million downloads. One says ” Thanks WHO ? “. Thank you sanitary passes!
World ranking of downloads on the Google Play Store
Apple App Store Global Download Ranking
Apple Market download rankings must make them cringe a bit when we see the number of applications of the enemy Google that are there. YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, Google, Google Chrome… Enough to further fuel the rivalry between the two digital giants who fight each other all year round.
It’s playing, there, it’s playing!
In the ranking of the most downloaded games, we find again and again the mastodon Garena Free Fire. the Battle Royale vietnamese crushes all competition with over 80 million downloads in three months. It is twice as much as PUBG-Mobile from which he is strongly inspired. A resemblance a little too pronounced which earned him a lawsuit for plagiarism from Krafton, the fathers of the latter.
In the series ” Grandpa resists », impossible not to smile seeing that Subway Surfers is second in the standings and candy Crush takes fourth place. Both games will celebrate their tenth anniversary in 2012! Like what, when you hold a catchy concept, there will always be an audience present. One more proof if needed with Roblox who is inserted between the two on the third step of the podium.
If it does not appear in the world ranking, to salute all the same the results of League of Legends: Wild Rift, first in the ranking of the App Store with nearly 16 million installs on iPhones and iPads. After its success on home computers, online gaming has a bright future ahead of it on mobiles.
