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The top free apps are the kind of apps you could see people downloading if they were stuck inside while a pandemic raged outside.

These were the most-downloaded apps of 2020 on Apple’s App Store

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BY Michael Grothaus

Apple has revealed the App Store’s most-downloaded apps of the year. And the list of top free apps is very telling, if you know what I mean. They’re the apps you could see people downloading if they were stuck inside while a pandemic raged outside.

Apple broke the most-downloaded apps of 2020 into two lists: free and paid. Here are the ones that came out on top:

Apple’s most-downloaded free App Store apps of 2020

  1. Zoom
  2. TikTok
  3. Disney Plus
  4. YouTube
  5. Instagram
  6. Facebook
  7. Snapchat
  8. Facebook Messenger
  9. Gmail
  10. Cash App

Apple’s most-downloaded paid App Store apps of 2020

  1. TouchRetouch
  2. Procreate Pocket
  3. Facetune
  4. HotSchedules
  5. AutoSleep Track Sleep
  6. The Wonder Weeks
  7. SkyView
  8. Shadowrocket
  9. SkyGuide
  10. Forest – Stay Focused

To see the full list of all the winners beyond the top 10, open up the App Store on your iOS device and then look for the “Get the Top Apps of 2020” story in the Today section.

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Michael Grothaus is a novelist and author. He has written for Fast Company since 2013, where he's interviewed some of the tech industry’s most prominent leaders and writes about everything from Apple and artificial intelligence to the effects of technology on individuals and society. More


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