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For a long time, Apple tried to downplay the importance of downloads to its business. If Google can work around some limitations of what third-party apps are allowed to do on the iPhone, don't be surprised to see Google Search reach the top 5 next year. The iOS version so far is barely scratching the surface of what it can do. Google Now, when fully functional, is incredibly powerful. Recently, that app got updated to support Google Now, a service that's fantastic on Android. Altogether, Google captured 4 spots on the iPhone list thanks to the new offerings, with the Google Search app sitting in 10th place. YouTube is much less popular on iPad at 15th (suggesting the iPhone data there might be inaccurate as the app technically existed before when it was bundled) and Maps doesn't make that list, which shouldn't surprise anyone since many iPads never leave the living room. YouTube is at 4th all-time on the iPhone list while Google Maps debuted in 25th place. As a result of those two changes, Google released standalone versions of Google Maps and its video service and both became quite popular. That allowed it to move past Twitter, which nevertheless made a jump from 12th to 8th.īest 'frenemies' forever? Apple's decision to offer it's own mapping app over one powered by Google garnered a lot of attention, but another less-noticed change was that Apple also removed the YouTube app with iOS 6 last year. While that gives Facebook the #1 and #3 slots, the very popular chat tool WhatsApp moves from 18th to 6th this year.

Instagram, which Facebook bought a year ago and which crossed 100 million users in February, is now the third most popular free app ever on iPhone when it was 19th a year ago.

Beyond that, though, there were big moves in the popularity of other social apps. If there is really 'Facebook fatigue,' it's not showing up in the App Store numbers, as the social network's app is the all-time most popular freebie on iPhone. Interestingly, both are properties the company acquired rather that in-house products. While Rovio rules with Angry Birds and Bad Piggies, Zynga appears a couple of times thanks to Draw Something and Words with Friends. Among free apps, games are much less popular, accounting for about 1/3 of each list. (That's actually up from 17 when the list was compiled a year ago, according to the folks at, whose work informs this post.) On iPad, only 15 of the paid top 25 are games. Of the all-time 25 most-popular paid apps for iPhone, 19 of them are games.

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