After the first months of this 2022, analysts have already shared reports on app preferences among users, backed by numbers from stores. Only The most popular apps on the App Store already have 8.6 billion downloads.

The report shared by Sensor Tower confirms that: App Store downloads increased by 2.4% worldwide It will reach 8.6 billion in the first quarter of 2022. Between the ‌App Store‌ and Google Play, there were 36.9 billion total app downloads, an increase of 1.4%.

These estimates include worldwide downloads for iPhone, iPad and Google Play from January 1 to March 31, 2022. And it only reports unique uploads.

TikTok became the most downloaded app of 2022

TikTok became the most downloaded app in the first quarter of 2022

The report confirms that user preferences have not changed much from the previous year. Therefore, social networks and messaging services continue to lead in popularity as the most used applications, not counting games.

TikTok became the most downloaded app on ‌iPhone‌ and iPad worldwide, With 70 million downloads on the ‌App Store‌. With this number, the social network has reached 3.5 billion downloads since its launch, making it the first non-Meta app to reach this milestone. According to Sensor Tower, no app has surpassed TikTok even since the beginning of 2018, when WhatsApp had 250 million downloads worldwide.

since two years ago TikTok maintained its undisputed leadership, especially among the favorite applications of the young audience.. Thanks to its continuous updates and video-oriented content, it has played a key role in users’ entertainment, and has been a headache for other similar apps like Instagram, which, despite its updates, could not regain its dominance in this category.

Most downloaded apps according to Sensor Tower

Following TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook were the other most downloaded appsremained unchanged compared to the quarter of the previous year.

As for games whose downloads are analyzed in a separate classification, Subway Surfers, Wordle (2016 original), Coloring Match, PUBG Mobile and Roblox were the most downloaded apps.yes Subway Surfer was downloaded more than 15 million times during the quarter.