In 2021, during the previous ranking carried out by Arcom (regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication) and Arcep (regulatory authority for electronic communications, posts and press distribution), it was TousAntiCovid which was first in the ranking of the most downloaded applications by the French. Since then, times have changed, the pandemic period has passed and everyone aspires to a happier future.

For the year 2022, the ranking is marked by the arrival of several new applications. These include Lidl Plus, CapCut and ByteDance. The last two are directly linked to the Tiktok social network which is also present in this ranking. The most famous GPS, Waze also places in the ranking. Telegram, an encrypted messaging application makes its way into the charts. The best known of social networks ten years ago, Facebook, continues to fall and lose importance in the phones of the French.

In a study conducted by data.ai published on January 11, 2023, we can see the meteoric rise of messaging applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram. Most of them have become the most used applications for communication purposes. Since some applications offer messaging services, like Tiktok, Instagram or Snapchat, we can now notice that these are also used to call. According to the study, 69% of users over the age of 12 use these applications to make calls. All these statistics show a decrease in SMS, which has become thirty this year. Most apps with messaging have helped reduce their usage, and therefore their usefulness. Also in this study conducted by data.ai, it is proven that the use of SMS fell by 29% in 2021.

Now find the ranking of the 10 most downloaded applications by the French in 2022.