Top 55 most downloaded Android Apps

Thanks to our wide range of services around mobile apps we frequently get asked: what are the most downloaded Android apps? We expected this to be an easy task to find out but realised: it is not.

Android Market presents the most popular apps but that evaluation is not based on all-time download numbers or even on the download numbers of the current month. App aggregation sites such as Appbrain.com, AndroidZoom, Androlib or AppstoreHQ do not present any top downloads stats at all. The site that delivers the most appropriate numbers is Cyrket but their stats seem to be at least 6 months old based on our research.

Therefore we hereby present a list of what we believe is the top 55 of most downloaded Android Apps.

All-time popular Android apps: 

1. Facebook, Facebook (Free)
2. Google Maps, Google (Free)
3. Angry Birds, Rovio Mobile Ltd (Free)
4. Pandora Radio, Pandora (Free)
5. Talking Tom Cat Free, Outfit7 Ltd (Free)
6. Handcent SMS, handcent_admin (Free)
7. Advanced Task Killer, ReChild (Free)
8. KakaoTalk, KakaoTalk (Free)
9. Bubble Blast 2 Free, Magma Mobile (Free)
10. Barcode Scanner, Zxing Team (Free)
11. Shazam, Shazam (Free)
12. Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Systems (Free)
13. Google Sky Maps, Google Inc (Free)
14. Lookout Mobile Security, Lookout Inc (Free)
15. The weather Channel, The Weather Channel (Free)
16. Slice It! ®, Com2uS (Free)
17. Jewels, MH Games (Free)
18. TweetCaster for Twitter, Handmark (Free)
19. Astro File Manager, Metago (Free)
20. Movies, Flixster (Free)
21. Live Holdem Poker Pro, Dragonplay (Free)
22. Robo Defense FREE, Lupis Labs Software (Free)
23. Angry Birds Seasons, Rivio Mobile Ltd
24. Alchemy, Andrey
25. Twitter, Twitter
26. Skype, Skype
27. Paper Toss, Back Flip Studios Inc
28. Gmail, Google Inc
29. WhatsApp Messenger, WhatsApp Inc
30. GasBuddy - Find Cheap Gas, Gasbuddy.com
31. WeatherBug, WeatherBug Mobile
32. Ringdroid, Ringdroid Team
33. Google Translate, Google
34. Solitaire, Ken Magic
35. Bible, LifeChurch.tv
36. Google Earth, Google
37. TiKL - Touch to Talk (PTT), TiKL Inc
38. Vaulty Free Hides Pictures, Threon Rogers
39. Free Music Download, Jeromy.Y
40. Evernote, Evernote Corp
41. Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers, Zedge
42. MP3 Music Download, Hades Lab
43. Backgrounds - 10.000 Wallpapers, girls2you.us
44. Androidify, Google Inc
45. Air Control Lite, Four Pixels
46. GO Launcher EX, GO Launcher Dev Team
47. Anti-Virus Free, AVG Mobilation
48. ROM Manager, ClockworkMod
49. Opera Mini web browser, Opera
50.  ES File Explorer, EStrongs Inc.
51. GO SMS, Go Dev Team
52. doubleTwist Player, douleTwist
53. Yahoo Mail!, Yahoo! Inc
54. Streetview on Google Maps, Google
55. Horoscope, Horoscope.fr

About the ranking: Since Google only presents indicative download numbers the list is based on the number of ratings (not the rating) for each app. This should be a very good indication based on our previous experience and benchmarking of our own apps as you can simple multiply the number of ratings with a number to get an indicative download number within +/- 10%. Therefore the ranking in the list is indicative and not absolute.