{"id":189477,"date":"2022-04-27T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=189477"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:47:59","slug":"tiktok-most-downloaded-app-first-quarter-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tiktok-most-downloaded-app-first-quarter-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok was 2022\u2019s most downloaded app in its first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to Sensor Tower\u2019s report on Q1 2022\u2019s top mobile apps, TikTok<\/a> was the most downloaded app worldwide<\/strong> from January to March 2022\u2014surpassing 3.5 billion all-time downloads from last year\u2019s Q1. Currently, it\u2019s the first app not owned by tech giant Meta to break that record.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, TikTok has proven to be more than a new short-form video platform that could replace the beloved but discontinued Vine<\/a> app. This Chinese-owned video-focused social networking service has evolved from a simple entertainment app to a social media powerhouse<\/strong> with an international presence that rivals that of Instagram<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is all the more apparent in Sensor Tower\u2019s findings, which listed TikTok as the top downloaded app all over the world. This only counts unique installs<\/strong>\u2014only one download per user\u2014and only from Google Play Store and Apple App Store combined, excluding third-party stores and Google and Apple\u2019s own apps. For Google Play Store\u2019s list, Tiktok only ranks third and is beaten by Meta\u2019s Facebook<\/a> and Instagram. It dominates the list for Apple App Store, however\u2014shooting past YouTube by a wide margin with about 70 million downloads worldwide<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the US alone, TikTok has been the top app in each quarter<\/strong> since Q1 2021. It and YouTube have been competing for first place in the Apple App Store. In other regions like Europe and Asia, TikTok also holds a high rank\u2014if not being at the top\u2014but some of the competitors have also shown considerable growth and popularity this past quarter and year. These include WhatsApp<\/a>, Telegram<\/a>, and WeChat<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With how much TikTok is expanding its reach daily, we may see an even bigger turnout in the next quarter or year. This can\u2019t only be attributed to its large userbase but also the numerous features and improvements it\u2019s been working on diligently. One of these is a new dislike button for comments that TikTok is recently testing<\/a> and the launch of its own music distribution platform<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image credit: Sensor Tower<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Sensor Tower\u2019s report on Q1 2022\u2019s top mobile apps, TikTok was the most downloaded app worldwide from January to March 2022\u2014surpassing 3.5 billion all-time downloads from last year\u2019s Q1. Currently, it\u2019s the first app not owned by tech giant Meta to break that record.\u00a0 Over the years, TikTok has proven to be more … Continue reading “TikTok was 2022\u2019s most downloaded app in its first quarter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9229,"featured_media":189486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2336],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-189477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontik-tok"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324014,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189477\/revisions\/324014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189477"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=189477"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=189477"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=189477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}