The Google Play Store had an enormous 2.6 million apps available for download. There’s an app for chatting, one for learning, and many just to make your life simpler. If you haven’t already guessed by that number, there is an app for everything!
While all this sounds glorious, there are most popular apps apps that are just a cheap gimmick to show ads and earn money. So, in this undifferentiated world of applications, how do you judge an app to actually be worth it? It’s simple: there is power in numbers. You can tell if an app is trustworthy by the number of downloads it has.
To make your life easier, here’s a current list of the top 6 most-downloaded Android apps of the week, separated into categories.
List of Top Apps of the Week:
1. WhatsApp:
2. Facebook Messenger
3. Facebook
4. YouTube
5. Instagram
6. Snapchat
Detailed About Top Apps of the Week:
1. WhatsApp:
WhatsApp is indisputably the most downloaded instant messaging app for Android and other smartphone users. The application was launched in 2009 by ex-Yahoo employees as a small start-up. However, it gained popularity so rapidly that the makers of the application added an annual charge for using the service of the app to reduce the number of subscriptions. In 2014, the app was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion.
WhatsApp taking place out as a chat messenger, but now it’s also used for sharing media, files, audio, and even for video calling. In fact, the app has gained fame among teenagers because of its features such as group chats, location sharing, and voice messaging.
Google Playstore Downloads: 1,000,000,000+
Google Play Store Rating: 4.4 stars
2. Facebook Messenger
Messenger is a Facebook-owned messaging application. The company initially came up with the idea of Facebook chat in 2008 but it wasn’t until 2011 that Facebook launched Messenger which allowed users to connect with their friends and family through chats, individually or in groups, rather than sending simple text messages.
Separately from video calls and group chats, the recent updates of Messenger enable users to play video games like Solitaire, Bingo and 8 Ball Pool and compete with their friends. Moreover, the app has also added features such as masks, emoji, and filters while making video calls.
Google Play Store Downloads: 1,000,000,000+
Google Play Store Ratings: 4.1 Stars
3. Facebook
Unsurprisingly, Facebook continues to be the king of social media – and this app is bound to be on everyone’s smartphone. Launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, the application is a social media platform to upload and share photos, videos, media, news and other interesting content with friends and family, as well as uphold a friends list, create groups, events, and pages, and stream their live videos.
Initially, the Facebook app was introduced as a way to connect with long-lost friends, but today it has become one of the most powerful tools to advertise products directly to the target audience. It has become a vehicle for both big and small businesses for social media marketing.
Google Play Store Downloads: 1,000,000,000+
Google Play Store Rating: 4.1 Stars
4. YouTube
YouTube is a video platform for users to watch, share and download videos and has content for every age group. It was launched in 2005 by three former PayPal employees and was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6 billion.
From music and comedy shows for teens to how-to guides, hacks, and recipes for adults, it has pretty much every type of entertaining and educational content. In fact, it not only allows you to watch videos of your choice, but it also provides you with a platform to create your own video channel and upload your own videos with help of Youtube app.
Today, YouTube is not only used for entertainment but has become a platform for individuals to showcase their talents and for businesses to advertise and market their products and services.
Google Play Store Downloads: 1,000,000,000+
Google Play Store Rating: 4.3 Stars
5. Instagram
Instagram was launched in 2010 and is yet another social networking site owned by Facebook since its acquisition in 2012 for $1 billion. The Instagram app is a photo-sharing social media platform to share your personal pictures and videos which can be edited with filters, captions, tags, and location information.
Lately, it has been adding features like polls, sharing stories, emoji sliders, and question-asking, and more recently the app has included a video tagging feature. Boomerang (to create short video loops) and hyper-lapse (to enable hyper lapsed and time-lapsed videos) are two other features introduced by Instagram which have become quite popular.
Google Play Store Downloads: 1,000,000,000+
Google Play Store Rating: 4.5 Stars
6. Snapchat
Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an application for mobile users which is most popular among teens. The app allows you to share a simple everyday moment with your friends and add awesome filters to them.
Unlike other social media apps where you uploads are recorded and visible to everyone, the messages and photos shared on Snapchat automatically disappear after a short period of time. Initially, the app was focused on private, person-to-person photo sharing, but no one can use it for a range of different tasks such as sending short videos, live video chatting, creating emoji (like 3-dimensional, animated Bitmoji avatars), and sharing a chronological story.
The other cool features of the app include games, news and entertainment, quizzes, and innovative photos and video-editing tools.
Google Play Store Downloads: 5,000,000,000+
Google Play Store Rating: 4.4 Stars
Conclusion:
These are the best android apps all time; all you have to do is peek into the world of apps to find one that suits your needs. There are many more categories to discover, from dating to educational to productivity apps.
