Most Popular Apps in Different Countries

Back in 2008, after the launch of that first original iPhone, no one would have predicted how phone applications would transform into a multi-trillion-dollar industry. What was once a quirky way of accessing websites through your portable device has become irreplaceable. Trends change in each country across the world, but one crucial characteristic stays the same: apps are our key to interacting with the world, no matter where we are. It all started with communication and social media (it’s now impossible to imagine keeping in touch with friends and family without apps like Facebook or WhatsApp). Still, it has evolved way past that and found its way into multiple facets of human life.

We use apps for communication and entertainment, as well as for business and banking, tracking time, counting calories, updating information about physical activities, and much more. However, it’s interesting how app usage differs regionally. Depending on the country’s infrastructure, the population’s wealth, daily needs, and habits, the app usage changes to accommodate the requirements of the majority of the population.

In this article, we’ve decided to highlight not only the most popular apps for each country but also something unique to every region so that social media doesn’t dominate the list. 

Europe and the Americas: From Social Media to Transportation

• The United States: TikTok. The only social media app on our list, but not discussing it would be impossible, especially in the US, where TikTok has taken the country by storm. While the social media and content creation apps of old (like YouTube, Instagram, and other similar platforms) followed familiar patterns in content creation, making it comparable to movies, documentaries, and photobooks, TikTok’s conjunction of a hyper-advanced recommendation algorithm and user-made short-form viral videos, enhanced by said algorithm, have revolutionized our view of content and started influencing multiple areas of life – books, food, transportation, style and more. TikTok is the most influential app worldwide in the 2020s, and the United States is where most of its trends originate and are advanced.
• Brazil: iFood. Food delivery apps have gained immense popularity all over the world (DoorDash, UberEats, Lieferando), but iFood takes full advantage of Brazil’s vast urban population and offers a multitude of options for local deliveries, allowing users to consolidate their food and grocery shopping in a single app. After a single click, any delivery will be made directly to your doorstep in minutes, and what started as a replacement for restaurant couriers has evolved into an entire industry in itself, aiming to satisfy every whim. 
• Germany: DB Navigator. Stereotypical Germans are always on time, but not if they drive a train! DB, or DeutscheBahn, is the largest transportation network in the country, and its branded app has made its way on almost all Germans’ phones, as it allows users to calculate their itineraries and daily commutes precisely while taking into account hundreds of train delays and cancellations that occur daily. 

Africa and the Middle East: Sports Betting with MelBet

In African and Middle Eastern countries, sports play a significant role in the daily lives of people. Compared to other countries, sports for this region play an ever stronger role as a social glue: people get together to play sports in their free time and root for the same team, watch games together, and compare their knowledge of their favorite sports daily, so it’s no wonder that sport-related apps would be at the height of popularity here. 

• In Egypt, the MelBet download opens the way for folks not only to bet money on their favorite sports but also to continuously monitor the sports news in a convenient, easily digestible form. The app features betting tools for hundreds of sports leagues, which allow one to make money on their expertise every day by placing small wagers on football, basketball, and cricket matches, and also a deep and detailed sports news portal, enabling people to read a thorough analysis of each team’s results and keep an eye on everything that might influence their betting tactics – transfers, injury reports, bans and so on.
• Meanwhile, in another major country in the region, Tunisia, downloading the MelBet APK is popular due to another feature the service presents to its customers – live feeds. Since the platform allows members to bet on matches from across the world live, it goes above and beyond to ensure that the experience is as seamless as possible. What’s better than watching the game you bet on live right on the betting platform? With hundreds of live feeds from across the region and the entire world, MelBet Tunisia’s offer is an app that lets you watch and enjoy any kind of sport you want. 

The best thing about MelBet’s offer for both of these countries and the entire region is that sports news and feeds are completely free – one doesn’t even have to register for an account to use them.

Asia: Apps that Do Everything

• China: WeChat. None of the European, American, or African apps can compare to the complexity and all-pervasiveness of WeChat. Known as the super-app, it is much more than an app and more like a key to daily life in modern China, impossible to imagine without WeChat’s impact. Uniting the functions of e-wallet, banking, online shopping, messaging, and connecting with other citizens in the country, WeChat is used daily by more than a billion people, almost all of China’s citizens. 
• India: PayTM. The closest thing any other country has to China’s WeChat is India’s PayTM – a super app in its own right. While lacking social media functions, it allows users to perform virtually every financial operation imaginable – buy transportation tickets and pay utility bills, conduct direct transactions and pay for subscription services, order taxis, and invest in the stock market. Essentially, just like WeChat, PayTM largely replaced most of the (at least large-scale) cash operations in the country, being used everywhere, from large corporations to friends sharing the cost of a beer.