Due to a large number of app releases every day, every app doesn’t get more attention from the users. Some of them fail badly while some of them fare mediocrely but few apps become widely popular among users. Due to its unique features and other reasons.
We have prepared the list of top 10 apps in India which are popular in 2020.
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10. Gmail
Category – Communication
Top Features
- Schedule Emails
- Spam filter
- Sync up your emails
- Emails Bookmarking
- Theme Option
- Different Language Support (Currently, Gmail is available in 105 languages).
Gmail comes on Number (10) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Gmail is an email providing service by Google. It started in the year 2004. Initially, Gmail was a storage capacity provider.
But, currently, For the revenue, Google is selling advertisements and deliver it to targeted users. They have the software, that parses user’s messages to determine advertising matches and will occasionally insert appropriate ads in e-mail messages.
The Gmail program also automatically organizes successively related messages into a conversational thread. currently, Gmail has 317 million users in India.
9. Snapchat
Category – Social
Top Features
- Filters
- Short Time Sharing
- Stories
- Geo Filters
- Chats.
Snapchat comes on Number (9) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Snapchat is one of the most popular apps among Indian youth. Especially for the unique and creative filters available in the app.
Snapchat is a multimedia and chatting app developed by Snap Inc. in the year 2011. There are three men behind this app named Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown.
Snapchat is supposed to be available in 32 languages in the world.
Snapchat has approx 229 million daily active users across the world by (March 2020). On average more than 4 billion Snaps (message includes pictures and videos)are created each day.
8. YouTube
Category – Video Players & Editors
Top features
- Playback Option For Premium
- Dark Theme
- Mobile Data Limiter
- Live Streaming
- Video Downloads
- Picture in Picture Mode and many more.
YouTube comes on Number (8) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
It’s not overwhelming to say that there is no better platform for video content other than YouTube.
YouTube is a subsidiary company of Google. Google bought YouTube in November 2006 for 1.65 billion USD.
The great American Entrepreneurs team created YouTube, which was known as PayPal Mafia Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in the year 2005.
After Google, YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world. One of the best things about Youtube is there community guidelines, which do not allow anyone to share toxic stuff on their platform.
YouTube has approx monthly 2 billion active users.
7. Aarogya Setu
Category – Health and Fitness
Top Features
- Contact Tracing
- Syndromic Mapping and
- Self-assessment
Aarogya Setu app comes on Number (7) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Aarogya Setu app has 4 main sections
- User’s status and give updates about the risk of COVID-19 infection.
- Self assesses (help to identify the covid-19 symptoms).
- Giving updates to the users about covid-19 and guidelines related to it.
- E-pass (during lockdown if the user wants permission).
Aarogya Setu app is an open-source app from the National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India which was launched in April 2020. This app is available in 12 Indian regional languages.
The primary objective of the Aarogya Setu app is to spread awareness of COVID-19 and to connect essential COVID-19 related health services to the people of India.
Basically, this app tracks Covid-19 infection using GPS and Bluetooth. This app got more than 100 million installs in 40 days.
6. Google Meet
Category – Business
Top Features
- Video call Up to 100 members
- Encryption call between users
- Screen-sharing to views
- AI-based Background noise filter.
Google Meet comes on Number (6) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Google Meet is another app by global giant Google which introduced in 2017. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, people can’t meet each other and looking for alternatives.
Google Meet is one of the good platforms for a video conference that’s why Google Meet got millions of downloads within a short period of time.
Indian people widely used this app for personal and group chats, for meetings and conferences, and for many other things like using this for providing education.
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5. Instagram
Category – Social
Top Features
- Photo and Video Sharing
- Video Calls
- Messaging
- Group chatting
- Live streams, etc.
Instagram comes on Number (5) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Very well-known as an IG and Insta, Instagram is one of the most popular apps in India. Even Indian youth can’t imagine life without Instagram.
Instagram is basically a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. Instagram founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
On Instagram, the users not only upload media, but the users can also edit them with filters in the app and also share them by using hashtags and geographical tagging.
Instagram allows its users to browse other user’s content by tags and locations, and view trending content. It is available in approx 32 languages in the world.
Here are some facts and statistics related to Instagram. Instagram has more than 1 billion monthly active users, out of which 69 million are Indians.
4. Facebook Messenger
Category – Communication
Top Features
- Direct Messaging
- Chat Heads
- Voice Call
- Video Calls
- Group Calls
- Group Chats
- Location Sharing
- Business Interaction
- SMS support
- Stories, etc.
Facebook Messenger comes on Number (4) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Facebook Messenger commonly known as Messenger is another app from Facebook, Inc.
In the year 2008, Facebook introduces it as a Facebook chat; after that, in 2011, it was renamed as a messenger and became a Facebook Messenger app.
After being separated from the main Facebook app, Facebook Messenger had completed 1 billion users in June 2016.
3. Facebook
Category – Social
Top Features
- News Feed
- Timeline
- Comments and Likes
- Multiple Accounts Login
- Video Live Streaming
- Tagging Friends
- Photos, Video, Stories, Text Sharing with Friends, Groups, Pages.
- Instant Notifications, etc.
Facebook comes on Number (3) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Facebook app is available in approx 111 languages in the world. Facebook has a 220M, including 50M iOS & 170M Android Downloads in (June 2020).
In the month of February in 2004, Famous entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg (4th richest person in the world by Forbes) started it with some of his friends.
Facebook is the subsidiary company of Facebook Inc. The app is accessible from anywhere in the world (except some countries like China, where it is banned by the Government).
The market capitalization of Facebook is around 713.54 billion USD, which makes it the 6th most valuable company in the world.
As per the data available in 2020 Facebook has a 2.6 billion active user, and 1.59 billion daily users. Average daily story views are nearly 500 million in (2019).
Some of the interesting facts about the Facebook app are:
- The like button on Facebook has pressed 1.13 trillion times
- Every single day 100 million hours of video are watched on Facebook.
- Every minute, there are 1,47,000 photos uploaded, 400 new users added, and 54,000 links are shared.
2. WhatsApp Messenger
Category – Communication
Top Features
- Instant messages
- End to end encryption of messages between users
- Group chats
- Voice calls
- Video call up to 8 peoples (presently)
- Status (famously know as story feature)
- Whatsapp Web
- Files Sharing, etc.
WhatsApp Messenger comes on Number (2) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
WhatsApp Messenger has become the primary means of electronic communication not only in Indian but almost in the world.
WhatsApp developed by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in the year 2009, and later it was acquired by Facebook, Inc. in February 2014 for approximately 19.3 billion USD.
WhatsApp Messenger has over 2 billion users worldwide as of February 2020. India is the largest market for WhatsApp in terms of the total number of users.
One of the reasons that makes WhatsApp Messenger this much success is easy to use user interface no matter the age of the user due to the straightforward interface; it’s become a widely used application.
1. Zoom
Category – Business
Top Features
- High Definition Group Video Calls up to 100 Members
- Chat and Meet
- Screen Sharing, etc.
Zoom comes on Number (1) from our most downloaded top 10 apps in India list.
Eric Yuan is the founder of Zoom in 2011 and launched its software in 2013. Zoom’s aggressive revenue growth makes it a unicorn company in 2017 ($1 billion valuations). Zoom has 2,500 employees as of January 2020,
In 2020, Zoom becomes one of the most popular apps not only in India but across the globe because of the corona pandemic.
The introduction of quarantine measures adopted, and people start working from home at this time, suddenly the demand for video communication increase rapidly.
Zoom app has many useful features in the app compared to available alternatives. The usage of the Zoom app increases significantly, and this makes it a number 1 most download app in India in 2020.
Conclusion – Our smartphones do not become smarter with these apps. So you can download this app according to your requirement. Comment down below which one is your favorite app.