Based on monthly downloads, Robinhood is by far the most popular eTrading app in the world. Downloads of the app spiked in early 2021, amounting over three million downloads per month in January, February, April and May of 2021. For comparison, none of the other apps considered here recorded over one million downloads in any month from 2017 to 2021. The timing of this spike in popularity is likely influenced by the media attention paid to retail investors, generally using eTrading apps, coordinating their activity via social media to drive up the stock price of companies such as GameStop and AMC Entertainment.
Monthly number of downloads selected leading apps that allow for online share trading worldwide from January 2017 to July 2021, by app
* Excludes the Chinese version of the app, however this accounted for less than 5,000 downloads in July 2021.
The numbers provided are from a tracking website that noted the number of downloads for individual apps from September 2014 onwards. Earlier figures are not available, as the tracker did not exist during this time.
The figures provided cover download figures for both Android as well iOS.
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