Since 2021, it’s surpassed Facebook Messenger to move into 6th place. It ranks just behind Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, and WeChat. TikTok is the 6th most-used social platform in the world Since January 2014, the only other apps to do so are Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.Īnd even though it launched in 2016, TikTok is the seventh-most downloaded app of the 2010’s.
It’s also the first non-Facebook app to reach 3 billion downloads.
That’s even more impressive when you realize that they reached two billion downloads less than a year before. TikTok hit three billion downloads in July 2021. TikTok has been downloaded more than 3 billion times TikTok also continued its streak as the top-grossing app, surpassing $2.5 billion dollars in consumer spending in 2021. Like many apps on the most-downloaded list, it experienced a major drop in worldwide downloads from the previous year, but held onto its top ranking.Īccording to Apptopia, TikTok was also the number-one download in the United States, with 94 million downloads in 2021- a 6% increase over 2020. It was downloaded 693 million times in 2019 and 850 million times in 2020. It’s also the third year in a row that TikTok has held the number-one spot. That’s over 100 million downloads more than the runner-up, Instagram, which was downloaded 545 million times last year. TikTok was the most downloaded app of 2021, with 656 million downloads
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