The popular alternative keyboard app was purchased by Microsoft in February 2016. The only app to even remotely come close has been SwiftKey at 438 days. Google Play has seen summited by 59 apps and has been topped the longest by Microsoft's world builder Minecraft, at a total of 1,544 days-or about 4.2 years at No. More apps that games occupied the worldwide top 10-just two, compared to six on the U.S. 3 and 4 with 1,773 and 1,353 days, respectively, while Instagram was No. 1 with 2,416 combined days across all countries. 1 worldwide, but this chart was also controlled by Facebook owned apps, specifically WhatsApp at No. Google Play has seen about 3,000 free apps reach No. Google Play by time spent atop the free chart was Etermax's Trivia Crack at just 59 days total.

3 ranked Google Street View standalone app at 110 days. The publisher's core Facebook app came in at No. This is in stark contrast to the 422 we found had managed the same feat on Apple's App Store July 2010 and July 2018.įacebook's chat app Messenger dominated this ranking with 900 combined days at No. Google Play store's top free ranking since the beginning of our analysis period in 2012. 1 on Google Play since 2012 in its free, paid, and top grossing categories. In recognition of this milestone moment in Android history, we drew upon Sensor Tower App Intelligence to produce the following rankings of apps that spent the most time at No.

It was reworked and renamed in 2012 to become the Google Play we know today. Ten years ago today, Google launched the Android Market, the initial first-party app store for its mobile platform.

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