Your most-used & favourite mobile apps?

[Marjo]

Hi everyone and happy Friday! 

I just read an article from a while back on Business Insider that listed 10 most-used smartphone apps. Not surprisingly, Facebook was number one! 

The list was collected from users in the US... I'd love to hear from all of you what are your most-used and favourite apps? 

This is the whole list of the 10 most-used apps in the US mentioned in the article:

1. Facebook
2. YouTube
3. Facebook Messenger
4. Google Search
5. Google Maps
6. Instagram
7. Snapchat
8. Google Play
9. Gmail
10. Pandora

[Glory1]

Well I could certainly recommend games if I lived in the Play Store @Marjo - Lord knows I've played enough of them 🤣

As you know I love Word Cookies but I can also recommend Word Garden, Word Connect, Word Bakery, Word Choco and Word Stars.

Word Stars is particularly fun. Not only do you have to find words but once you found all the words you're given a word missing 3 letters. You have to find the 3 missing letters from the words you've found. Starts off easy but gets more difficult as you progress.

Am also into bubble shooter games big time. Used to be useless at it. But for some reason in old age I've got better 🤣

And perhaps I should have said I also live in Amazon pre-ordering films and TV boxsets and downloading books and just browsing. In fact, any non-food item I buy is through Amazon; Waitrose for food.

Sounds as if I use my phone a lot - I do!

[Cleoriff]

Most used...

1) Email

2) Amazon

3) Messenger

4) BBC News

5) Google

6) FB

7) Youtube

😎 Mobdro

9) Weather

10) Asda/George

Not a game in sight....:smileywink:

[Wa10]

I haven't looked at the "official" ranking on my phone yet (either battery or data), as thought it would be fun to try and guess first, then I'll have a look and see whether Android agrees with me.

1. Spotify
2. Audible
3. Chrome
4. Facebook
5. WhatsApp
6. Gmail
7. Natwest
8. VLC
9. Amazon
10. Android Pay

That's what I'm thinking, will see what the phone says in a moment. 

[Wa10]

Hmm, can anybody else see the 1 on line 10 of my list above? It's definitely there, haha, however doesn't seem to be displaying...it appears if I open the message to edit though. 

[Cleoriff]

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@Wa10 wrote:

Hmm, can anybody else see the 1 on line 10 of my list above? It's definitely there, haha, however doesn't seem to be displaying...it appears if I open the message to edit though. 

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No just seeing 0 @Wa10. However I physically typed mine in, I didn't use the numbered list facility at the top of the page....

[MI5]

Yeah I can see it......

[Cleoriff]

On PC...this is what I am seeing

[gmarkj]

^^ Snap. On PC too.
I think mine would be as follows:
1. Kindle
2. Podkicker
3. Radio X
4. Chrome
5. Candy Crush
6. Mi Fit
7. Tu
8. YouTube
9. Strava
10. Twitter
It is a little difficult to tell as I have some apps set to ignore for battery usage (trying to stop pop ups). Might clear the settings for a week and see what crops up...

[Anonymous]

1. Safari

2. All 4

3. You Tube

4. Snapchat 

5. Facebook

6. Camera

7. Messages

8. Barclays

9. Phone

10. Met Office

not very exciting! 

[Marjo]

I forgot we had this topic @Anonymous! I looked at my list as it's been a while and there's been a couple of interesting developments since I last checked...

So last year I had these as most-used (based on the battery usage):

1. Netflix (been binge-watching Star Trek lately! Much better than Charlie's Angels!)
2. Amazon
3. Bingo Blitz
4. SimCity
5. WhatsApp
6. Safari
7. Ilta-Sanomat (it's a Finnish news app)
8. Groceries
9. Uber
10. Facebook

But checking now, it's changed a bit:

1. Fairway Solitaire
2. Ilta-sanomat (the Finnish news app)
3. WhatsApp
4. News (the Apple default news app)
5. Facebook
6. Safari
7. Uber
8. Gmail
9. App Store
10. Just Eat

So basically I've been playing only one very addictive mobile game instead of many for a while, moved from using Neflix on my phone to a bigger screen, and done less shopping... My parents recently got WhatsApp on their mobiles which probably contributed to the jump to number 3. They used to be technophobes and now look at them, making video calls and everything on their mobile!