One common complaint about the YouTube app is that you need a premium membership to keep listening to audio after you ’ve conclude out of the app . Despite this inconvenience , the gratuitous version of the YouTube app is still wildly pop . After all , it ’s the most downloaded iPhone app of 2018 , according to CNN’sanalysisof Apple data , and the company ’s cable television service - gratuitous YouTube television set app is also this yr ’s “ buff favorite ” among Android users .
Apple ’s list of the most downloaded apps of the year andGoogle ’s picksfor the best Android apps of 2018 paint a pretty clear picture of how we ’ve been spend ( or wasting ) our time . And it ’s clear that we ca n’t get enough of social sensitive . After YouTube , the top downloaded free iPhone apps are Instagram , Snapchat , Messenger , and Facebook .
Avatar - creating app Bitmoji , which was the most downloaded app last year , dropped to sixth spot in the late ranking . Snapchat , which have Bitmoji , also dropped one speckle fromlast year . The societal medium appreportedlylost 3 million users last summer after an unpopular redesign .
Two photograph redaction tools — Facetune and Kirakira+—are this year ’s most democratic paid apps , while Fortnite is the most popular game .
Some of Google ’s picks for the best Android apps , on the other hand , are less widely known . Take , for example , the language - learn app Drops — its top recommendation . The Duolingo competitor offers lessons in 31 lyric , including two Spanish pas seul ( Castilian and Latin - American ) , Cantonese , Arabic , and even native Hawaiian .
Here are a few other apps that Google recommends , many of which are also available for iOS :
1.Vimage : Add animation to photos2.Scout FM : Listen to podcasts3.Slowly : send off “ snail ring mail ” to indite chum around the world4.Luci : Keep track of lucid dreams5.Mimo : larn to pen code6.MasterClass : Learn how to cook , represent , and more7.Just a Line : get out with augmented reality8.10 % Happier : Learn to meditate9.Notion : Track your productivity10.Sift : browse smarter and get refunds when cost drop
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