These were the most popular Android apps and games in 2022 (in millions of downloads), grouped by category. Depressing to see TikTok being the most popular one in the world, 672 million brainwashed users per year, that’s a lot.
Most popular Social apps:
- Instagram: 547 million downloads
- Facebook: 449 million downloads
- Whatsapp: 424 million downloads
- Telegram: 310 million downloads
- Messenger: 210 million downloads
- Twitter: 159 million downloads
- Discord: 105 million downloads
- WeChat: 96 million downloads
- BeReal: 91 million downloads
- Pinterest: 90 million downloads
Most popular Entertainment apps:
- Tiktok: 672 million downloads
- Netflix: 165 million downloads
- Youtube: 154 million downloads
- Disney+: 147 million downloads
- Amazon Prime Video: 123 million downloads
- Youtube Kids: 99 million downloads
- HBO Max: 87 million downloads
- MX Player: 74 million downloads
- Hotstar: 64 million downloads
- Pluto TV: 61 million downloads
Most popular Games:
- Subway Surfers: 304 million downloads
- Stumble Guys: 254 million downloads
- Roblox: 208 million downloads
- Candy Crush Saga: 138 million downloads
- Race Master 3D: 128 million downloads
- 8Ball Pool: 120 million downloads
- FIFA Mobile: 111 million downloads
- Merge & Fight: 110 million downloads
- Garena Free Fire: 109 million downloads
- Bridge Race: 107 million downloads
Most popular Money transfer apps:
- PhonePe: 94 million downloads
- Paypal: 92 million downloads
- Google Pay: 69 million downloads
- CashApp: 66 million downloads
- Paytm: 60 million downloads
- AliPay: 59 million downloads
- NuBank: 49 million downloads
- DANA Dompet: 42 million downloads
- Airtel Thanks: 41 million downloads
- Caixa Tem: 38 million downloads
Most popular Travel apps:
- Google Maps: 113 million downloads
- Uber: 107 million downloads
- Booking.com: 80 million downloads
- Airbnb: 52 million downloads
- Google Earth: 51 million downloads
- Where is my train: 46 million downloads
- inDrive: 41 million downloads
- AutoNavi: 37 million downloads
- Bolt: 36 million downloads
Most popular Shopping apps:
- Shein: 229 million downloads
- Meesho: 210 million downloads
- Shopee: 203 million downloads
- Amazon: 195 million downloads
- Shopsy: 141 million downloads
- Flipkart: 115 million downloads
- PinDuoDuo: 79 million downloads
- Alibaba: 66 million downloads
- Lazada: 64 million downloads
- Mercado Libre: 64 million downloads
Most popular Music apps:
- Spotify: 238 million downloads
- Star Maker: 96 million downloads
- Shazam: 71 million downloads
- Youtube Music: 65 million downloads
- Resso: 61 million downloads
- Sound Cloud: 49 million downloads
- Amazon Music: 44 million downloads
- Wynk Music: 43 million downloads
- Beat Maker Pro: 36 million downloads
- Music Player: 35 million downloads
Most popular Education apps:
- Duolingo: 98 million downloads
- Toca Life World: 72 million downloads
- Photo Math: 42 million downloads
- Google Classroom: 40 million downloads
- Brainly: 40 million downloads
- Baby Panda’s Supermarket: 36 million downloads
- Toca Kitchen: 33 million downloads
- Coloring Games: 31 million downloads
- Baby Panda’s Playhouse: 28 million downloads
- Picture This: 27 million downloads
Most popular Health apps:
- Sweatcoin: 52 million downloads
- Blood Pressure: 51 million downloads
- Peduli Lindungi: 43 million downloads
- Home Workout: 34 million downloads
- Flo: 33 million downloads
- Lucky Step: 29 million downloads
- Da Fit: 28 million downloads
- Sixpack in 30 days: 27 million downloads
- FitCoach: 26 million downloads
- Zepp: 24 million downloads
Most popular Crypto apps:
- Binance: 64 million downloads
- Crypto.com: 41 million downloads
- Coinbase: 40 million downloads
- Trust: 16 million downloads
- etoro: 8 million downloads
Most popular Dating apps:
- Tinder: 64 million downloads
- Bumble: 28 million downloads
- Badoo: 26 million downloads
- Tantan: 24 million downloads
- Grindr: 14 million downloads
- Hinge: 13 million downloads
- Plenty of Fish: 11 million downloads
- Happn: 10 million downloads
- MOMO: 9 million downloads
- Jaumo: 9 million downloads
