The COVID-19 trouble created a rise in mobile app usage during 2020 plus 2021. Despite that, now that vaccine rollout has become public, mobile app usage is slowing down again, however, revenue has still increased up.
Sensor Tower’s newest news reveals that smartphones users spent a sum of $33.6 billion on mobile apps in Q3 this year. That was a combined outcome of the Google Play Store also Apple’s App Store plus in-app buying as well as several subscriptions. That means a 15.1% rise over Q3 2020 where users spent $29.2 in the result.
Still, that progress has reduced down significantly as 2020 revealed an increase of 32% compared to 2019.
Apple’s App Store made the largest money at an impressive $21.5 billion, which is a 13.2% boost above last year. The Google Play Store dropped behind by $12.1 billion, still, it did an impressive improvement of 18.6%.
TikTok did become the highest-earning mobile app overall. TikTok did also became the leading non-Facebook app that got 3 billion monthly installs. It also became the highest-earning mobile app at the Apple App Store, however, Google’s own Google 1 app took the top spot at the Play Store.
Piccoma rushed up to the second spot and YouTube and Disney+ too got into the Top 5 in terms of overall revenue.
Mobile gaming remains on the growth as well with users paying 7.7% more money than last year to a huge $22.4 billion. Maximum of the money came from the Google Play Store ($13.1 billion) including iOS App Store left behind ($9.3 billion).
PUBG Mobile remains to be the head of mobile games in terms of revenue. The game has made whole lifetime earnings of above $5 billion and that also involves Game for Peace, the Chinese version of PUBG Mobile. Another Tencent Game Honor for Kings got the second position plus Genshin Impact is at the third position despite being just a 1-year-old game.
Genshin Impact did also become the highest-earning app at the Google Play Store, while Honor for Kings made the lead at iOS App Store.