# The most downloaded apps of the decade (2010-2019)

App Annie's top 10 most downloaded apps of the decade across iOS and Google Play combined: Facebook owned the top four.

- 60 votes · 10 items
- Jan 16, 2020 · culé_mallorca
- https://even.best/en/l/1532/the-most-downloaded-apps-of-the-decade-2010-2019

## Top 10

1. **Facebook Messenger** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — Facebook's messaging, split from the main app in 2014.
2. **Facebook** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Mark Zuckerberg's social network, the most downloaded app of the decade.
3. **Snapchat** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Disappearing messages and the stories everyone copied.
4. **Skype** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Microsoft's video calls.
5. **TikTok** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — ByteDance's short music videos, launched outside China in 2017.
6. **WhatsApp** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The messaging app Facebook bought in 2014.
7. **YouTube** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Google's videos on mobile.
8. **Instagram** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Filtered photos, later stories; owned by Facebook since 2012.
9. **Twitter** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Messages of 140 characters, 280 since 2017.
10. **UC Browser** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Alibaba's browser, huge in India and Indonesia.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.