Mobile intelligence firm Apptopia has just released a list of the 10 most downloaded apps and games in 2022. Can anyone guess which app is in first place?
In fact, according to Apptopia data, TikTok is still the most downloaded application for 2022. This application made by Bytedance has been downloaded 672 million times worldwide. TikTok itself has topped this list for the last three years.
Bytedance also has one more app on the top 10 list, namely Capcut. The video editing application is in fourth place with 357 million downloads.
Meanwhile, Meta's three biggest applications, namely Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, are still in the top 10 positions. Instagram and Whatsapp are in second and third place respectively, while Facebook drops from third to eighth.
Not only applications, the list of top global installations is also filled by two games namely Subway Surfers (ranked seven) and Stumble Guys (ranked nine). Stumble Guys itself is a game similar to Fall Guys which was launched for mobile devices in 2020.
Apptopia says this data is collected from the number of app downloads on the App Store and Google Play. This data was collected from January 1, 2022 to December 20, 2022, as quoted by Forbes, Friday (6/1/2023).
But for data from China specifically taken from the App Store only because Google Play is not available in that country and Apptopia does not count third-party application stores.
Apart from the top apps list, Apptopia also released a list of the most downloaded games. Interestingly, this list is dominated by older games, including Subway Surfer and Candy Crush Saga which are already 10 years old.