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Snapchat’s Bitmoji is the No. 1 most-downloaded app in five top markets

Uber makes the list, too.

Rani Molla
Rani Molla was a senior correspondent at Vox and has been focusing her reporting on the future of work. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade — often in charts — including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.

Facebook and Google have long dominated the app store, but they’re losing ground to younger tech upstarts.

Snapchat, which went public in March, became a top 10 most-downloaded app in eight of the 10 biggest app markets this year, according to data from app analytics company App Annie.

But Snapchat’s biggest growth comes from Bitmoji, the personal emoji app Snapchat parent Snap acquired last year. At the time, Bitmoji wasn’t in any of these top 10 rankings. Now Bitmoji is the No. 1 most-downloaded app in five top markets: The U.S., U.K., France, Canada and Australia.

Uber’s ride-sharing app also made the top 10 list in three countries — the U.S., Brazil and Australia — for the first time this year.

For the most part, though, Facebook, Google and Snapchat own the top apps:

This study uses only data from iOS, since many Android devices come preloaded with Google apps, meaning download data from Android wouldn’t accurately show user interest. The data was collected from Jan. 1 to March 29 of 2017 and excludes games.

Note that in China, the world’s biggest app market as of 2015, Google is banned, so you won’t see its apps there. Facebook has also been banned in China at times and faces steep competition from homegrown player Tencent.

If you don’t recognize the app icons above, here’s a key:

Download down-low

Rank

China

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Russia

France

Germany

Canada

Brazil

Australia

1Tencent VideoBitmojiGoogle TranslateBitmojiYoulaBitmojiWhatsAppBitmojiUberBitmoji
2FaceuFacebook MessengerLINEWhatsAppWhatsAppSnapchatYouTubeMessengerWhatsAppMessenger
3ofoYouTubeAbemaTVMessengerSberbank OnlineWhatsAppSnapchatYouTubeMessengerSpotify
4QQSnapchatDELISH KITCHENPRANKDIALVKMessengerPinterestSpotifyFacebookNetflix
5MobikeInstagramSNOWYouTubeAliExpressYouTubeBitmojiFacebookInstagramYouTube
6AlipayFacebookYahoo! JAPANSnapchatInstagramFacebookMessengerNetflixYouTubeFacebook
7TaobaoGoogle MapsInstagramFacebookViberInstagramInstagramSnapchatFGTSUber
8iQIYINetflixAkinator the GenieInstagramYouTubePinterestGoogle MapsInstagramSpotifySnapchat
9YoukuUberGoogle MapsSpotifyAvitoGoogle MapseBay KleinanzeigenGoogle MapsNetflixGoogle Maps
10WeChatSpotifyYouTubeGoogle MapsSnapchatSpotifyFacebookWhatsAppSnapchatInstagram
Note: Most-downloaded apps in the top 10 iOS download markets, Jan. 1-March 29, 2017. Excludes games. Top download countries listed by 2016 rank.
Source: App Annie

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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