2021 was a very special year which, on the application front, had the effect of propelling TousAntiCovid or Doctolib to the fore. Home care services have also benefited from the situation.
After the failure of StopCovid, a “contact tracing” application that had all the trouble in the world to win in France, TousAntiCovid followed a diametrically opposed path. This new enriched app, in which the exit certificates were stored, before the QR Codes of the health pass found their place there, was a real success in 2021. It turned out to be the key to opening access to a large number of places of recreation for the vaccinated French, having a certificate of recovery or a recent negative test.
In this context of health measures taken by the government to encourage vaccination, it is not surprising to learn that TousAntiCovid was the most downloaded application in France last year. So much so that it is installed on nearly 50 million smartphones or connected watches, attests Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital.
Our colleagues from Figaro, publishing data collected by Sensor Tower, confirms that TousAntiCovid outperforms extremely popular apps like WhatsApp or TikTok in number of downloads in 2021. The installations curve reveals that if the integration of exit certificates at the time of confinements and covers- fires had boosted the number of downloads to around 20 million, it is indeed the introduction of the health pass that has pushed as many of our fellow citizens as possible to adopt the app.
For the month of November, Médiamétrie statistics indicate that more than 32 million French people have used the application at least once. In this ranking, TousAntiCovid is the 7the The most used “service”, behind those of the giants Google (51 million), Facebook or Amazon.
Doctolib is also on the rise
Another health application to have experienced an explosion in its downloads in France in 2021: Doctolib. This success can be explained by the government’s choice to make this private platform the leading provider of vaccination or Covid test appointments. It is even the fourth most downloaded application over the year, ahead of Instagram, Messenger or Facebook. At Médiamétrie, we recorded more than 25 million unique visitors to the Doctolib app and site in November.
Finally, the pandemic has also accelerated the adoption of video conferencing tools such as Zoom, meal delivery services such as Uber Eats, and streaming video platforms such as Netflix or Prime Video. As many sites and services which appear in the top 20 downloads of applications.