List of most popular smartphone apps

This is a top 10 list of the most popular smartphone apps by number of unique users in the United States as of the end of 2016.[1] All of the smartphone apps in this list are owned by Google, Facebook, Apple or Amazon; all of these apps are free to download.[2]

Rank Name Owner
1 Facebook Facebook
2 Facebook Messenger Facebook
3 YouTube Google
4 Google Maps Google
5 Google Search Google
6 Google Play Google
7 Gmail Google
8 Instagram Facebook
9 Apple Music Apple
10 Amazon App Amazon


This is a top 10 list of the most used smartphone apps of the 2010s.[3] Eight of these apps are products of publicly-traded companies based in California, and two are from companies based in China.

Rank Name Owner
1 Facebook Facebook Inc.
2 Facebook Messenger Facebook
3 WhatsApp Facebook
4 Instagram Facebook
5 Snapchat Snap Inc.
6 Skype Microsoft
7 TikTok ByteDance
8 UC Browser Alibaba Group
9 YouTube Google
10 Twitter Twitter Inc.

See also
  • List of most downloaded Android applications
  • List of most downloaded iOS applications

References
  1. Wong, Joon. "The No. 2 app in America would be nothing without the No. 1 app in America". Quartz. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  2. "Tops of 2016: Digital". Nielsen. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  3. DeNisco Rayome, Alison (December 16, 2019). "10 most-downloaded apps of the 2010s: Facebook dominates the decade". Business Insider. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
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