Tik-Tok TikTok is the newest craze in social media and has been downloaded by more than 80 million people worldwide. Facebook Facebook was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month, with more than 53 million installs.
Instagram Instagram surpassed the 1 billion global user mark as came to a close. Whatsapp Although WhatsApp encountered backlash earlier this year over privacy concerns, it still placed No.
Telegram Telegram is the most popular social networking app around, with more than 63 million downloads in January Messenger There are 1.
Zoom Zoom really took off in Snapchat Snapchat has made it in our top 10 most downloaded apps in Google Meet The 10th most downloaded app in is Google Meet, which has been updated and rebranded at the beginning of There were more than million daily app downloads between — YouTube was the most popular app in , with a mobile audience reach of Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming mobile app in January Mobile app vs.
TikTok was downloaded over 2 billion times in Do you have an app idea? Follow Us. What to read next. Jul 20, 19 min. Vevo dropped a big redesign this year featuring a gorgeous interface with your favorite music videos, as well as a discovery feature to help you find rising artists.
The app learns your preferences over time, helping to customize your feed. With a user-friendly way to stream video from a mobile phone to everyone in the world, Meerkat turned the Internet on its ear.
Web app, Free. With millions of users sucking down data at home, on mobile and over Wi-Fi, the Internet can be a very slow place. There are dozens of iOS and Android apps to measure your speeds, but they all seem to have an air of unreliability.
Syncing up with your social networks, Nuzzel keeps track of the most tweeted links by the accounts you follow and provides a roundup of all the associated tweets. Unofficial Reddit apps existed before this year, but the official take makes the front page of the Internet even easier to use and browse than it is on a computer. Want to see what a choose-your-own-adventure meets immaculate illustrations and artistry meets the opposite of tin-eared writing looks like?
Start here. Bad habits may be hard to break, but good habits can be even harder to make. This app helps by giving users a gentle reminder ever day — whether its on your phone or your wrist — to develop up to six healthy routines.
Streaks was launched in , but the app was given a slick 2. There are a slew of Snapchat-like free video messaging apps on the market. And while they all jockey for position, Tribe does so with a new killer feature: Magic Words. Basically, when a user says a term in his or her video like a band name, for example that word — through some back-end Google speech recognition magic — appears on the screen, overlaid on the video as a clickable keyword.
Is this enough to put it ahead of the camera-toting pack? But Allo earns a spot on our list because of the potential of the Google Assistant. But when and if it gets smarter, it could be truly brilliant.
Pix, which launched in July, uses artificial intelligence to recognize the subject of an image and adjust camera settings in real time. Within the app, users can assign tasks on the to-do list to specific family members and take note of the last time a certain family member was heard from. There are dozens of apps, games, and toys designed to help kids learn the building blocks of computer programming. It downloads articles in a clean, readable format so you can read anything without an Internet connection.
Add-ons for desktop browsers mean you can save stories from your work computer and read them on your way home. Google Maps and Apple Maps are fine, but neither will make you the master of defeating traffic like Waze. If your idea of choose-your-own nirvana involves minimalist, binary survivalism your goal is to stay alive , Reigns is one of the coolest stripped-down, rapid-play angles on the genre in years.
Golf and stickmen? Even if like me the thought of playing real golf makes you recoil, this is the stick-and-ball-swatting game for you. Do away with the the stressful blare of your built-in phone buzzer. Apple unveils Best of across apps, music, movies and more. Apple has unveiled its Best of lists, celebrating the most popular apps, music, movies, TV shows, books and podcasts across the App Store, iTunes, Apple Music and iBooks.
The Beats 1 team will be counting down the biggest songs on the station in with a special Best of Beats 1 show on December 7. App and game developers continue to deliver incredible experiences to Apple customers, with games like Minecraft: Pocket Edition. An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens.
The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good. Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways. New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. To say that was a good year for helpful apps would be a colossal understatement. A perfect storm of artificial intelligence, big data, excellent interface design, and fresh takes on otherwise stale categories left this year chock full of potential candidates.
Some existing apps even added so many great and meaningful new features that they earned a spot on the list this year as well. And everything on this list is either free or sports a free version with enough features to keep your wallet safe for a while. Aside from a wonderful family, my health, a beautiful home, a solid job, and general happiness, I am not a wealthy man.
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