Like every year, the Apptopia firm, which specializes in data analysis in the world of applications, delivers its ranking of the most downloaded apps in the world over the past year. Its ranking for the year 2022 – from January 1 to December 20 – concerns both download statistics on the Apple App Store and Google Play, without counting alternative portals, which moreover explains that only iOS data is available for China.
According to Apptopia’s ranking, TikTok confirms its leading position in 2022, since the title has been downloaded 672 million times, compared to 656 million the previous year. ByteDance’s social network relies on the CapCut video editor – which it edits and uses for editing clips then published on TikTok – which alone has 357 million downloads and ranks fourth. It gains both five ranks and 122 million downloads in one year, which confirms the popularity of the social network.
TikTok is racing ahead
The ranking also confirms the continued popularity of Instagram, which retains second place in the download podium, with 548 million downloads, compared to 545 million last year. WhatsApp gains a place and climbs to third step, with 424 million downloads (395 million in 2021), but Facebook is showing a sharp decline: when it was number 3 in 2021 with 416 million downloads, it goes to 8th in 2022 and is content with 298 million downloads. We also note the release of the top 10 of the Zoom application, which testifies to a decline in popularity of videoconferencing services, and the maintenance of secure Telegram messaging.
Apptopia also offers themed rankings that are not lacking in interest. No offense to lovers of battle royale or FPS, it’s still and always Subway Surfers which inherits the first place in terms of downloaded games. We also note the breakthrough of Shein, specializing in low-cost clothing, which takes first place in online sales applications. Finally, TikTok overtakes Netflix in the category of entertainment applications. However, its status could change in 2023, in particular because of its uncertain future in the United States, as evidenced by the recent cuts in its workforce in China.