Instagram is also competing with Reels, which it has marketed heavily in the country. TikTok’s ban in India made way for several clones built by Indian developers, with MX TakaTak, Moj and Josh all competing for the short-video crown. Source: Statista Most Popular Apps 2021 (India) Pinduoduo has seen the most growth from 2020 to 2021. WeChat is the most popular app in China, which acts as a home screen for Chinese phone users, with thousands of mini-programs loaded inside the app. Source: AppMagic Most Popular Apps 2021 (China) TikTok dipped in popularity, and Microsoft Teams surpassed Zoom in total downloads. Millions of Brits downloaded the NHS App in 2021 to access their Covid pass, which let them attend festivals, large events and go on holiday. Source: Apptopia Most Popular Apps 2021 (United Kingdom) Cash App is another 2021 success story, with more users and downloads than 2020, possibly due to the influx of new cryptocurrency buyers. TikTok remained the most popular app in the US as well, increasing its total downloads for the year by two million. Source: Apptopia Most Popular Apps 2021 (United States) TikTok retained its spot as the most downloaded app in 2021, although total downloads decreased by 194 million in 2021. We cover global, Brazil, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. In this section, we take a look at the most popular apps in each country. Four of the ten most downloaded apps of 2021 were published by Facebook.Among Us was the most downloaded globally in 2020, with 285 million downloads.TikTok was the most downloaded app globally in 2021, with 656 million downloads.
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Others, such as travel, transport and dating, benefited from the opening up of tourism and hospitality.
Some newer categories, like cryptocurrency, saw much higher downloads and usage in 2021 than in the previous year. Total downloads were down, with top apps like TikTok, Facebook and Snapchat losing over 100 million downloads in 2021. In a year when several app sectors saw five years growth in a few months, it is impressive that most managed to keep pace with 2020 downloads. Several of these apps have added over 50 million users this year alone, with TikTok reportedly missing out on a potential 250 million active users because of the ban.įacebook still dominated total download charts, with four of the top 10 most downloaded apps published by the social network.
Its ban in India has led to a new segment of TikTok-like apps, vying to take the short-video crown in the country.