In our modern age, the phone has become an integral part of our work life, like it or not. Everyone has become dependent in an important part of their life on the phone, and not only this has become a part of our lives, but even some applications that have imposed themselves strongly in our society and have become a huge part of our lives. It also has its time and even became a part of our practical and scientific life, for some it has become a job they depend on, and for others it has become a field for science and learning, and some have made their mark in the field of advertising, and here is the most consuming part. For the world, and here in this article we monitor the most used applications in the modern era
Note: This article is in order of downloads this year.
1 - Tik Tok: 656 million.
At the end of 2021, Tik Tok app topped the list of the most popular apps worldwide for the second year in a row, yes, the Facebook app still dominates the total download charts, with four of the top 10 downloaded apps being published by a social network.
But Tik Tok retained its place as the most downloaded app in 2021, although the total downloads decreased by 194 million in 2021 compared to 2020, Meta had three apps in the top five.
2- Instagram: 545 million
Instagram has proven its dominance as the most used application and one of the most important of those growing social applications today, although it was founded in October 2010, but the application has become more used and powerful, especially after the purchase of the company responsible for Facebook, Meta, and acquired it in a deal that amounted to Billion dollars at the time and caused quite a stir, then the app took another incline towards a strong rise in the world of social media, so far it has reached 2 billion active users. At first, it was the main threat and competitor to Meta, but then it was relied on adding the Metaverse family in the shopping process, a feature that started since 2018, and has continued until now, as Instagram has been developed and offers Instagram Story in addition to Instagram Live, and last year, it released Instagram has a new feature called Reels, which is the main competition for the Tik Tok app.
3- Facebook app: 416 million.
Who of us does not have an account on it, it is necessary to talk about Facebook and even keep it in the list despite the emergence of many new competitors such as Tik Tok, Snapchat, Instagram and many other applications, but the great development in this application has made it the best in social networking applications and based on On the statistics of last year, the application has the largest number of users in two days, but what distinguishes the application is the long time that the user spends on this application, which may reach several hours a day.
The site started small, and it was the preserve of Harvard students until Mark Zuckerberg made it one of the most important and fastest social networking applications undisputed, and even the permanent developments of applications that made it the most widely used applications in all fields. Facebook did not decline despite the many problems that attacked the designer Mark Zuckerberg, especially those problems that occurred in 2018, which were never in its best condition, after changing the trends and algorithm of the site to reduce the reach of the posts of companies and brands as well. As a scandal draining advertisers' pockets and manipulating the numbers and results of advertising campaigns to appear effective, which prompted Adidas to stop using the Facebook ad platform in addition to the site privacy scandal from Cambridge Analytica to breach the data of more than 90 million users. last September.
Despite this, Facebook is still the most important in the field of messaging, interaction between friends, posting photos, videos and various publications, with its users exceeding 2.91 billion monthly active users, with a wide spread in more than 120 countries around it. the world.
4_ WhatsApp: 395 million.
One of the most important instant messaging applications around the world, which contributed to reducing the profits of many companies, to the extent that Meta company did not leave it either, as it did with Instagram, where it did the same and bought WhatsApp in a deal called “the deal of a lifetime”, where Facebook announced its acquisition on WhatsApp AP for $19 billion in stock and cash.
WhatsApp has more than 1.93 billion monthly active users around the world, and although the app is not widely used in the US and many competing apps there, it is a leading communication app. The advantage here is that it is able to combine work as well as chatting with friends, which is an ideal marketing method, WhatsApp is distinguished from Facebook or Facebook Messenger in that it is fully encrypted and information protection.
5- Telegram: 329 million.
Telegram is one of the most important and most secure instant messaging apps. It was founded in 2013 by the Russian brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who previously founded the popular social networking site in Russia, VKontakte, or VK for short.
One of the most important things that makes Telegram different from other messaging apps is the security and encryption features that the app has, which enables users to send any type of file and with any extension without fear of being eavesdropped by a third party, including the app itself being protected. Since the app in 2015 added the channel feature to its amazing features, it has gone from being a messaging app to an all-in-one social media platform, especially since it is officially available on most of the operating systems for phones and computers.
Telegram currently has more than 500 million monthly active users.
6. Snapchat: 327 million
You can share photos and videos with others through your account in the app, and at the beginning of 2018 Snapchat has gone viral and has 400 million daily active users. It is a social networking application to share visual moments and diaries with friends and followers through its unique feature that has been admired by teens, especially sharing photos and short videos that do not exceed 10 seconds for a certain period before disappearing forever, and the rapid growth of Snapchat since its founding in 2011 brought him many attempts The most famous of these was Facebook's attempt to acquire it for nearly $3 billion, and Google's attempt to acquire it for nearly $4 billion.
On the other hand, the performance of Snapchat started to decline slightly after Facebook took its unique feature “Stories” and made it available in its various applications such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and most importantly it was in Instagram, but the application is still maintained. More than 500 million active users worldwide.
With this, we have finished counting the six most used applications around the world, and you may notice that they are all social networking applications, but of course there are other leading applications in more than one field, such as scientific applications and others, music, games, pure entertainment, shopping, food and drinks and we will talk about all Types of applications separately