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These lists are of the apps in Google Play Store that are free, and have at least 500 million downloads on unique Android devices.

10 billion+ downloadsedit

On July 31, 2020, the Google Play services crossed the 10 billion downloads mark. It hits that total because Play Services has been pre-installed on every Android phone since 2012, and reset devices often inflate the numbers as well.

5 - 10 billion downloadsedit

Only thirteen apps have crossed the 5 billion downloads mark. Google Play Services, the main OS application for any Android phone, crossed 5 billion downloads in 2017, YouTube in 2018 and Google Maps, Google, Gmail, Google Text-to-Speech, Google Chrome, Facebook, Android Accessibility Suite in 2019 and Google Drive, WhatsApp and Google Play Movies & TV in 2020. Eleven of these apps are owned by Google and come preinstalled.

App Developer Date Publishedb Date Reachedc Category Pre-installedd
YouTube Google 2010-10-20 2018-12-16 Video Players & Editors Yes
Google Maps Google 2012-12-12 2019-03-09 Travel & Local Yes
Google Google 2010-08-12 2019-03-22 Tools Yes
Gmail Google 2010-09-21 2019-06-18 Communication Yes
Google Text-to-Speech Google 2013-10-10 2019-06-17 Tools Yes
Google Chrome Google 2012-02-07 2019-07-03 Communication Yes
Facebook Facebook 2011-08-09 2019-10-17 Social Yes*
Google Play Music Google 2011-05-05 2019-12-15 Music & Audio Yes
Android Accessibility Suite Google Date Unknown 2019-12-15 Tools Yes
Google Drive Google 2011-04-27 2020-01-01 Productivity Yes
WhatsApp Messenger Facebook 2010-08-18 2020-01-20 Communication No
Google TV Google 2011-06-03 2020-06-14 Video Players & Editors Yes

1 – 5 billion downloadsedit

These are the Google Play apps with over one billion downloads but less than five billion downloads on unique devices. Nearly all of these apps are owned by either Google, Facebook, Samsung or Microsoft.

App Developer Date Published Date Reached Category Pre-installed
Google+ Google 2011-06-28 2014-12-27 Social Yes*
Google Play Books Google 2010-12-06 2015-06-01 Books & Reference No
Messenger Facebook 2014-01-30 2015-06-11 Communication No
Hangouts Google 2013-05-15 2015-06-20 Communication Yes*
Google Play Games Google 2013-07-24 2015-08-17 Entertainment Yes*
Google News Google 2012-06-27 2015-09-20 News & Magazines No
Samsung Push Service Samsung 2013-03-29 2016-04-09 Communication Yes*
Instagram Facebook 2012-04-03 2016-08-16 Social No
Cloud Print Google 2013-06-12 2017-02-01 Productivity Yes
Android System WebView Google 2015-03-10 2017-04-01 Tools Yes
Google Photos Google 2015-05-28 2017-06-01 Photography Yes
Google Street View Google 2010-09-09 2017-06-23 Travel & Local No
Skype Microsoft 2010-10-04 2017-11-02 Communication Yes*
Subway Surfers Kiloo 2012-09-20 2018-04-01 Games/Arcade No
Gboard Google 2015-01-26 2018-09-01 Tools Yes*
Facebook Lite Facebook 2015-01-28 2018-12-16 Social No
Google Duo Google 2016-08-16 2018-12-22 Communication Yes*
Samsung Print Service Plugin HP Inc. 2013-11-05 2019-02-02 Productivity Yes*
Samsung Internet Browser Samsung 2015-08-24 2019-02-19 Communication Yes*
Microsoft Word Microsoft 2015-01-06 2019-07-14 Productivity Yes*
Snapchat Snap Inc 2012-10-29 2019-07-11 Camera No
Messages (Google) Google 2014-11-12 2020-05-01 Communication Yes*
Twitter Twitter Inc. 2010-04-30 2020-07-16 Social No

500 million – 1 billion downloadsedit

This is the list of the Google Play apps with over 500 million and less than one billion downloads on unique devices. Out of all the apps, there are only 6 games in this list, and the majority of apps in this list are pre-installed in Samsung devices, as a part of its necessary apps set such as Samsung Internet Browser, Samsung Health, Samsung Voice Recorder, Link Sharing, Samsung Email, Samsung My Files, Samsung Device Maintenance and Samsung Gallery.

App Developer Date Published Date Reached Category Pre-Installed
Dropbox Dropbox, Inc. 2010-05-04 2016-01-09 Productivity No
Candy Crush Saga King 2012-11-15 2016-01-15 Games/Casual No
Viber Messenger Viber Media, Ltd 2011-06-19 2016-04-20 Communication No
Twitter Twitter, Inc. 2010-04-30 2016-04-26 News & Magazines Yes/No
LINE LINE Corporation 2011-06-23 2016-05-22 Communication No
HP Print Service Plugin HP Inc. 2013-05-14 2016-06-11 Productivity No
Flipboard Flipboard 2012-06-21 2016-09-10 News & Magazines No
Pou Zakeh 2012-08-05 2017-05-01 Games/Casual No
Google Translate Google Date Unknown 2017-06-11 Tools No
My Talking Tom Outfit7 2013-11-11 2017-07-10 Games/Casual No
SHAREit SHAREit Technologies Co.Ltd 2013-04-28 2017-09-21 Tools No
UC Browser UCWeb Inc. 2011-10-25 2017-11-01 Communication No
Imo free video calls and chat imo.im 2010-07-27 2017-12-21 Communication No
Temple Run 2 Imangi Studios 2013-01-23 2018-01-13 Games/Action No
Google Calendar Google 2012-10-17 2018-02-11 Productivity Yes/No
MX Player MX Media & Entertainment 2011-06-18 2018-07-01 Video Players No
Samsung Health Samsung 2015-04-07 2018-08-02 Health & Fitness Yes*
Microsoft Excel Microsoft 2015-01-06 2018-09-01 Productivity No
Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft 2015-01-06 2018-09-01 Productivity No
Microsoft OneDrive Microsoft 2012-08-28 2018-09-01 Productivity No
Samsung Voice Recorder Samsung 2016-03-24 2018-09-23 Tools Yes*
ANT+ Plugins Service ANT+ 2013-05-10 2018-10-17 Health & Fitness No
Hill Climb Racing Fingersoft 2012-09-22 2018-10-17 Games/Racing No
Google Docs Google 2014-04-30 2018-11-01 Productivity No
ANT Radio Service ANT+ 2010-11-05 2018-11-01 Communication No
Link Sharing Samsung 2017-05-30 2018-11-16 Productivity Yes*
Samsung Email Samsung 2017-01-15 2018-11-16 Productivity Yes*
Clash of Clans Supercell 2013-09-30 2018-11-16 Games/Strategy No
Samsung My Files Samsung 2017-06-21 2018-12-02 Tools Yes*
Netflix Netflix, Inc 2016-01-06 2018-12-16 Entertainment No
Device Care Samsung 2017-06-01 2019-01-01 Tools Yes*
Flipboard Briefing Flipboard 2015-05-13 2019-01-01 News & Magazines No
Samsung Gallery Samsung 2017-08-15 2019-01-20 Photography Yes*
Samsung Calculator Samsung 2017-02-08 2019-02-16 Tools Yes*
Samsung Keyboard Samsung 2017-09-15 2019-03-01 Productivity Yes*
Samsung Experience Service Samsung 2018-06-14 2019-03-21 Personalization Yes*
Google Sheets Google 2014-04-30 2019-03-21 Productivity No
TikTok musical.ly 2015-07-09 2019-03-21 Social No
Microsoft OneNote Microsoft 2012-02-07 2019-05-01 Productivity No
PicsArt Photo Studio PicsArt 2011-11-04 2019-05-02 Photography No
Spotify Spotify Ltd. 2014-05-27 2019-05-02 Music & Audio No
Google Slides Google 2014-06-25 2019-05-18 Productivity No
Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe 2010-11-15 2019-11-25 Productivity No

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