Whatsapp, TikTok, Facebook Messenger and more: These are the most downloaded apps worldwide

We still remember the days when the first World Wide Web was launched on the internet and now thousands of websites are running. People nowadays prefer to do the majority of the tasks just by clicking or tapping on their devices and a variety of companies are even making it all true for them. The internet is offering a huge variety of services to its users that we end up relying more on social media platforms for our majority of daily life tasks.

Although there are millions of apps available in app stores for users but like you, we were also curious to know about the top apps worldwide with most download in app stores.

App with most downloads worldwide

According to Sensortower, the non-game app with most downloads worldwide for September 2019 is WhatsApp with close to 68 million installs. More than 34 percent of total downloads of WhatsApp was from India and Indonesia had more than 9 percent of total install. WhatsApp was ranked with the highest downloads worldwide and TikTok ranked second whereas Snapchat was ranked at 9th position and Wish at rank 10 with most downloads worldwide. These estimates of the app download are from Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform.

TikTok ranked second with the most installed non-game app worldwide in September had more than 60 million installs. India was the country with the largest number of TikTok installs with more than 44 percent of total downloads and the United States had 8 percent of total downloads of TikTok.

Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram were ranked in the top five most installed non-game apps worldwide in the month of September.

A new video editing app named Jianying Vlog from the maker of TikTok ByteDance launched in May 2019 also ranked in the top 10 downloaded apps for App store Downloads and this needs to be appreciated.


The users of Store Intelligence can see app download also see the download estimates of apps along with its historical performance metrics on the platform of Sensor Tower. The estimate of apps with most downloads for the App Store and Google Play worldwide was done between September 1, 2019, and September 30, 2019. In this analysis of apps with most downloads, the Apple apps and Google pre-installed apps are excluded. Only unique installs were reported in this download estimate of apps. The estimates of Android do not include the data from third-party app stores. The figures displayed only represent aggregate installs of total versions of apps like Facebook and Facebook Lite.

The usage of social media platforms is increasing day by day and the results of the apps with most downloads worldwide clearly display how much users prefer conversations via WhatsApp and consider TikTok more entertaining as compared to others.



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