For the fourth year in a row, “Tik Tok” maintained its position as the most popular application in the world in terms of downloads, as the Chinese-owned short video application “ByteDance” recorded 672 million downloads in 2022.
“Tik Tok” is the only Chinese application that is witnessing a high level of success in international markets, despite its ban in countries such as India.
The social media applications “Instagram”, “Facebook”, “WhatsApp” and “Telegram” dominated the rest of the top five places in terms of the number of downloads.
The after-effects of the end of the epidemic continued, with downloads of some applications stopping and declining in other categories, with users shifting their interests and preferences in the “post-Covid-19” world, as downloads of both “Zoom” and “Microsoft Teams” declined.
While “Subway Surfers” was the most downloaded game last year, recording 304 million downloads, followed by “Subway Guys.”
The most popular apps in the world by number of downloads in 2022
Number of downloads (1 million downloads)
01 Tik Tok 672
02 Instagram 547
03 Facebook 449
04 WhatsApp 424
05 Telegram 310
06 Subway Surfers 304
07 Subway Guys 254
08 Spotify 238
09 Shein 229
10 Messenger 210
11 Mesho 210
12 Roblox 208
13 Shopee 203
14 Amazon 195
15 Netflix 165
16 x (formerly known as “Twitter”) 159
17 The YouTube 154
18 Disney+ 147
19 Shopzi 141
20 Candy Crush Saga 138
