United Kingdom is easily the hub for new talent. Every day is a new opportunity to become a part of something bigger. Students’ main reason for choosing United Kingdom is because of the fast moving life of UK. With increasing usage and dependence on phones the apps market is very diverse and a very competitive market.
United Kingdom is easily recognized as one the most advanced country in terms of the simple aspect of buying and selling becoming digitalized allowing for easier and safer payments giving a sense of safety to both the buyers and sellers.
There are different industries moving into this apps industry. This is further backed on by the fact the companies that didn’t really start out in the phones application industry are moving into this direction. Famous ideas were first captured and discovered by famous companies like Apple with App Store and Google with Google Play for android phones.
Google Play generated gross revenue of 24.8 billion USD in 2018 preceded by 19.5 billion dollar in 2017, hence indicating the significance of this industry. Google Play has over 76 billion downloads whilst App Store follows with a hefty 30 billion download
The Industry is moving in a very diverse direction that provides opportunities to young generation. The apps market can be categorized into gaming, office use, fun, informative and social media platforms, editors and so much more. Each of these categories isn’t equally contributing into the total downloads.
The most downloaded category is social media apps followed by games and messaging apps and other miscellaneous apps.
Here is a small list of the most used Google Play gaming apps by students in United Kingdom with small descriptions and statistics as “Games and messaging’s apps are a tie after social media apps with the most downloads” (App Annie, 2019).
- Clash of Clans – and RPG and strategy game
- Helix Jump – tap-tap game
- Call of Duty Mobile – first-person shooter
- PUBG Mobile – third-person shooter, battle royale
- Mario Cart – a new reiteration of Mario Cart original with better graphics
- Subway Surfer
- Angry Birds etc.
The most number of downloads have always been dominated by social media apps and account to almost 39% of total downloads in the UK.
- Facebook – with a total of 60.6 million installs worldwide
- TikTok
- Snapchat
- Likee
The messaging apps category has many options for downloads in UK but here is a list of well protected and good experience. WhatsApp was such a success that it was bought by Facebook going a few years back. There are new acquisitions always under way to bring uniqueness into the app experience.
- Facebook messenger
- Viber
- Line etc.
Other companies like google and yahoo have apps with all the email functionalities of a computer browser. This market is normally competing in keeping the user experience flawless and convenient. As statistics show that only a certain time there is more than 4-3 minutes on average being spent on checking into messaging apps for making the entry and exit faster is the key feature to put emphasis on.
Here are some other most downloaded apps available on both IOS and Google Play that are not according to any category:
- YouTube
- COUB
- Netflix
- Skype
- Google Chrome
- Amazon
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- Google Play Music
- Uber
- Dropbox and,
- Shazam!
In UK one of the most uprising industry is the home delivery services and essay writing services hence there are certain new apps and companies available locally in UK that are both convenient if you want to spend money or earn money with them here a list, check this out:
- Uber Eats
- Just Eat
- Deliveroo
- Grammarly
- Google trends
- SEMrush
- Wish
- BBC iPlayer
- eBay Shopping etc.
These days it’s becoming even easier to make and spend money so get to it students. You can use delivery apps and earn good money plus tip. The riders prefer using bicycles to travel as it is the most efficient and beneficial not only for the customer but the rider to stay fit. You can work around your clock if you choose to. And not only that you can also drive Uber within the down however it isn’t recommended as per the traffic situation in place like London however outside of London is fine.
TikTok is fairly a new app but it has taken the world by the storm and UK is caught in the middle of it. Now create funny, informative or go nuts with arts with TikTok. TikTok has focused and won in the convenience as its just two swipes to get into watching videos and if you look around more JUST SWIPE UP. Other new apps like COUB and Tumblr provide a similar experience.
