Number of days spent as the top free app on Google Play worldwide 2012-2018

Published by Laura Ceci, Dec 19, 2022
This statistic presents the number of days spent as the top free app on Google Play worldwide from January 2012 to October 2018. With a total of 2,416 days, Whatsapp had the highest number of days being the top free app on Google Play worldwide. Coming in second was Facebook Messenger which had a total number of 1,773 days as top free app.

Number of days spent as the top free app on Google Play worldwide from January 2012 to October 2018

CharacteristicNumber of days
Whatsapp 2,416
Messenger 1,773
Facebook 1,353
Telegram 922
Wish 408
Trivia Crack 311
YouTube 277
AliExpress 214
Helix Jump 193
Instagram 192
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October 2018

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

January 1, 2012 to October 18, 2018

Special properties

days spent as number one free app on any country's Google Play store

Supplementary notes

Total includes non-consecutive days.

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