Despite the FTC fine of $5.7 million and restricted use by those younger than 13 years old, TikTok retained its No. 1 position as the most downloaded app on the Apple App Store for the fifth consecutive quarter, by a new report from Sensor Tower. The app saw more than 33 million App Store downloads during Q1 and was followed by Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp and Messenger to round out the top five.
With 11.7 million App Store downloads, it saw its biggest quarter in terms of downloads since Q1 2015 — and a year-over-year increase of 3.6%. Of course, these figures won’t necessarily translate to an increase in active users, it's the number of downloads increased.
TikTok Q1 Downloads
TikTok Q1 Downloads
It was again topping the AppStore, but it wasn’t the most downloaded app on Android devices in Q1.
With a bigger footprint in emerging markets and a larger total user base, Android trends can look different from those on iOS. Past quarter, WhatsApp was the No. 1 app on Google Play, with nearly 199 million installs. It was followed by Messenger, then TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger all saw more of than 150 million installs apiece in Q1 2019, as did TikTok.
Though not the top app on Android, TikTok still had a huge quarter — particularly in India, where 88.6 million new users installed the app in Q1, up 8.2 times over Q1 2018, Sensor Tower noted in an earlier report.
That said, TikTok’s numbers for the next quarter may not be as good. The app was banned in India in April over illegal content, including pornography. While that ban was lifted later that month, Sensor Tower estimated it had cost the app at least 15 million downloads there, and what would have been its biggest-ever month.
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