Here Are The 10 Popular Android Apps On The Google Play Store!

Popular Android applications are still dominated by old applications (photo: doc. Pixabay)

JAKARTA - For Android users, the Google Play Store is your place to get various kinds of applications. From messaging apps, to social media, to games, it's all there.

Android Rank is a service that was founded in 2011. Their service is to collect market data, popularity rankings on android applications, developers, and application history.

Android Rank is the oldest service that provides history data and app listings on Google Play. Android Rank provides statistics, Android app ratings, and app rating reviews based on Google Play public data.

Based on VOI monitoring of the data in the Android Rank as of today, here are 10 popular Android applications on the Google Play Store.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp is an online messaging application that has been released since 2011. Although there are many other messaging applications, in fact WhatsApp is still the most popular.

Of course this is also due to the updates that are constantly being improved by the company now known as Meta. Recently WhatsApp is also testing a lot of new features to beta testers.

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. This website allows users to upload, watch and share videos.

Not only that, due to the advancement of technology and times, now all YouTube content creators can make money from the videos they upload by means of monetization.

Instagram

Instagram is a photo and video sharing application that allows users to take photos, take videos, apply digital filters and share them.

Although this application from Meta often draws criticism from users, it seems that Instagram is still a popular application among Android users. Recently, Instagram has been aggressively presenting features to compete with TikTok.

Facebook

The next popular application is still from Meta products. Facebook is a social network that has been around since 2004. Even though it has been around for 18 years, it turns out that this application has not lost its popularity.

Recently, Facebook shared an update on its long-awaited plan to enable end-to-end encryption by default on its Messenger chat platform.

Garena Free Fire

Garena Free Fire or commonly called Free Fire (FF) is an online battle royale game developed by 111 Dots Studio and published by Garena for Android and iOS.

Even though it was only released globally in 2019, this game has also become a popular game. Free Fire is also an esports sport that is also included in various events. Finally, FF is an esports branch that is included in the SEA Games.

Messenger

Messenger is an American messaging app and platform. Prior to its launch, Facebook users could directly send messages through the app. However, now if you want to exchange messages, you have to use the Messenger app.

Clash Of Clans

Clash of Clans is a freemium mobile strategy video game developed and published by developer Supercell. The game was released for the iOS platform on August 2, 2012, and on Google Play for Android on October 7, 2013.

TikTok

TikTok, a Chinese social network and music video platform launched in September 2016 by ByteDance, has become a popular app in recent times. Because of its popularity, many apps are trying to emulate the features found in TikTok.

The applications that try to compete with TikTok are Instagram which launched the Reels feature and YouTube which also presents its Shorts. Recently TikTok launched a new tool that allows its users to share TikTok stories to Facebook and Instagram.

Google Photos

Google Photos is an online photo storage and sharing service developed by Google. This service has been launched since 2015, which can store up to 15 GB of files.

PUBG Mobile

Apart from Garena Free Fire, the free battle royale game PUBG Mobile is also a popular game on Android. PUBG Mobile is a mobile game adaptation of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds which was released for Android and IOS on March 19, 2018.

In addition, PUBG Mobile is also an esports branch that is included in various events. Like FF, PUB Mobile is also included in SEA Games

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. Chrome was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, then ported to Android, iOS, Linux, and macOS which made it the default browser in the operating system.