on Monday night, Apple has released the annual lists of the most popular Apps for Switzerland. These lists are therefore particularly exciting, because Apple (unlike Google with Android) Apps, is very secretive, is on the way.

Even if a lot of Apps over the years, in the Top 5 can hold, give the changes but is always an insight into the Trends and developments.

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Since Apple has now been abolished since a few years, the category of highest-grossing Apps, and no absolute Numbers are called, it is necessary to examine these lists with care. How clearly an App is in front of another, one sees just as little, such as whether an App is now fallen short or bulky from the Top 5.

Here are the results in Detail:

iPhone: most popular Free Apps
1. Whatsapp
2. Instagram
3. Google Maps
4. Youtube
5. Youtube Music

In the case of Free Apps has the Whatsapp once more on top keep. The interest on Messenger from Facebook is unbroken. Behind it, but there are shifts. Instagram and Google Maps have overtaken Youtube. So bad Youtube doesn’t cut off yet. The App is in the Top 5 and is Youtube Music the music-streaming service, and is displaced to Spotify.

iPhone: popular Paid Apps
1. Threema
2. iTheorie Auto theory CH
3. Peak finder
4. Blitzer.de Per
5. Weather Pro

The security-Messenger Threema came out last year back in the Top 5. This year, the Swiss App grab the first place. Thus, the Messenger occupy the first places in the two iPhone-categories. The driving theory App loses a place and is this year’s second place. New in the Top 5, the camera App and Weather Pro come. For Plantsnap and CamToPlan do not just fall out of the Top 5, but even out of the Top 10.

iPhone: most popular free games
1. Aquapark.io
2. Mario Kart Tour
3. Paper.io 2
4. Brawl Stars
5. Color Bump 3-D

unlike the Apps, the games Apps are in each case larger shifts and more changes. So all of the games in the Top 5 are new. The winner is the water slide game, water Park is. Despite much Hype, it was not enough for Mario Kart for the top spot. It is striking that of the previous year’s winner, Fortnite is not represented once more in the Top 10.

iPhone: most popular paid games
1. Minecraft
2. Plague Inc.
3. Rebel Inc.
4. Football Manager 2019 Mobile
5. Construction Simulator

In the case of the payment play the classic hold. Minecraft defend the top spot, and also Plague Inc. holds on place two. Place with Rebel Inc. the new game the company behind Plague Inc. In this category, it would be exciting to see what impact the launch of Apple’s own games, subscription Apple Arcade has. Arcade games do not appear in the Charts.

iPad: the most popular Free Apps
1. Netflix
2. Youtube
3. Microsoft Word
4. Google Chrome
5. Google Maps

Also in the case of the iPad Apps must Youtube springs. The year-on-year second Netflix grabs the top spot, displacing Google’s video portal on place two. A place improves Microsoft Word has. As with the iPhone Apps is also like the iPad Spotify from the Top 5. The streaming service takes place this year on 7th place and even behind Youtube Music (space-6).

iPad: most popular Paid Apps
1. Procreate
2. Good Notes 5
3. Notability
4. Duet Display
5. PDF Expert 7

As in previous years, secure Procreate and GoodNotes (with the new Version 5) the Top places in the case of the Payment Apps on the iPad. You can swap but the seats. Notability remains in 3rd place. New in the Top 5 Duet Display, and PDF Expert. Just that Duet is placed so prominently, surprised. Apple has built in, but with the Sidecar now an almost identical function directly into the latest macOS.

iPad: the most popular free games
1. Brawl Stars
2. Paper.io 2
3. Homescapes
4. Aquapark.io
5. Helix Jump

In the case of the iPad-Play was the only Helix Jump in the Top 5. All the others are new additions. On the iPhone it was enough for Brawl Stars only for the fourth place. On the iPad, the game grabs the first rank. Unlike on the iPhone is not like iPad Fortnite completely out of the Top 10. The Multiplayer game is still on 7th place.

iPad: the most popular online payment games
1. Minecraft
2. The Room: Old Sins
3. Rebel Inc.
4. The House of da Vinci
5. Construction Simulator 3

In the case of the Payment Apps has done heuer little. The places 1 and 2 are unchanged. Minecraft is the Paid Apps continue to be the measure of all things. The House Of Da Vinci must Rebel Inc. Space and slips to 4th place. New in the Top 5 of the Construction Simulator is. Four games of The-Room series were found last year in the Top 10, this year there are only two.

in Addition to the quantitatively most successful Apps, Apple has excellent (as in previous years) a couple of favorites specifically. For example, the photo App Spectre was named best iPhone App of the year. The full list of winning Apps can be found here.

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Created: 03.12.2019, 06:22 PM