Islamic Lifestyle

Muslim Pro is close to 100 mln downloads. Outside Islamic economy, 3 Muslim countries installed around 4 bln apps in 3 months


The CEO of Muslim Pro, Louis-Bernard Carcouet, said two weeks ago that the app is approaching its 100 millionth download (it hasn’t happened todate). Muslim Pro is the most downloaded app in the Islamic economy. It launched in 2010 and it’s taken it ten years to reach that number, which for the Islamic economy is a milestone.

While 100 million downloads is a first for an app dedicated to providing Islamic content, a few Muslim-majority countries that are global top 10 downloaders run into billions of app installs in mere months.

From April through June this year, worldwide app downloads reached an all-time high of 37.8 billion, an increase of 31.7% compared to the same period last year, according to data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower.

The COVID-19 pandemic is responsible for this dramatic rise. Zoom was the top app by downloads globally during the three months, reaching 300 million installs, followed by TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, FB Messenger, Aarogya Setu, Google Meet, Telegram, and YouTube.

Indonesia, Turkey and Egypt are the only Islamic nations on the top 10 list of countries for all apps downloaded from April through June. Egypt was a first-time entrant in that quarter.

What are the top 10 countries by all app downloads January through June 2020?

 

 

April - June 2020

January – March 2020

1

India (6.9  billion)

India (just under 5.5 billion)

2

USA (just under 4 billion)

USA (around 3.5 billion)

3

Brazil (almost 3 billion)

Brazil (around 2.5 billion)

4

Indonesia (just under 2 billion)

Russia (just above 1.5 billion)

5

Russia (around 1.5 billion)

Indonesia (around 1.5 billion)

6

Mexico (just under 1.5 billion)

Mexico (just over 1 billion)

7

Turkey (just over 1 billion)

Turkey (just under 1 billion)

8

Vietnam (just under 1 billion)

Vietnam (under 1 billion)

9

Japan (under 1 billion)

Japan (over 0.5 billion)

10

Egypt (under 1 billion)

 

Great Britain (just over 0.5 billion)

Date Source: Sensor Tower Q1 2020, Q2 2020 Store Intelligence Data Digest


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