Most popular smartphone apps in the U.S. 2016, ranked by audience

Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 28, 2016
This chart shows the most popular smartphone apps in the United States in 2016, ranked by average unique monthly users between January and October 2016. During the survey period, it was found that the Facebook app was the most popular with an average of 146.03 million unique monthly users. YouTube was ranked third with 113.74 million monthly users.

Most popular smartphone apps in the United States in 2016, ranked by average unique monthly users (in millions)

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Release date

December 2016

Region

United States

Survey time period

January to October 2016

Supplementary notes

Combined iOS and Android users.
Figures have been rounded.

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