10 Most Downloaded Apps Of 2022

If you want to know what’s happening in the world, one important metric is what apps people are downloading. For 2022, Facebook dropped by more than 25%, TikTok kept winning, and CapCut, a formerly obscure video editing software, cracked the top four most-downloaded apps in the world. Not shockingly, it’s made by the parent company of TikTok, and is a favored tool of influencers for creating — you guessed it — TikTok videos.

Unlike 2021, two games made the top 10 for global installs, according to Forbes citing data released today by mobile intelligence firm Apptopia.

And while Facebook app installs were down, Facebook’s parent company Meta can be happy that WhatsApp, a formerly Eurocentric messaging app, has continued its growth both globally and in the United States. Unfortunately, it’s doing so at the expense of Meta’s own Messenger app.

And here’s the top 10 most-downloaded apps for the United States:

1. TikTok: 99 million
2. Instagram: 72 million
3. Cash App: 64 million
4. WhatsApp: 63 million
5. Snapchat: 54 million
6. Subway Surfers: 51.4 million
7. Roblox: 50.9 million
8. Amazon: 47 million
9. Messenger: 46.3 million
10. Facebook: 45.5 million