AVG Android App Report Q3 2015

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Protecting more than 200 million active users.
Q3 2015
Android
TM
App
Performance & Trends Report
by AVG Technologies

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App Performance & Trends Report
by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 1<< Contents
Table of Contents
A Executive Summary .........................................................................................2
Introduction..................................................................................................2-3
Top Findings in Q3 2015....................................................................................4-7
Scoreboard - Top Apps Run at Startup...................................................................8
Scoreboard - Top Apps Run by Users.....................................................................9
Scoreboard - Top Games...................................................................................10
B Perform a Self-Check Now ............................................................................11
How To Identify the Top 10 Apps on YOUR Phone.....................................................11
C Key Findings ....................................................................................................12
Introduction...................................................................................................12
World’s Greediest Mobile Apps........................................................................13-14
Top Ten Battery Drainers................................................................................15-16
Top Ten Storage Hogs...................................................................................17-18
Top Ten Data Traffic Hogs...............................................................................19-20
Mobile Gaming - What Gamers Should Know.........................................................21
D App Usage Trends...........................................................................................22
Introduction.....................................................................................................22
Top 50 Installed Apps........................................................................................23
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E Addressing the Issues..............................................................................24-25
Contact Information ................................................................................26
F Appendices: Country Insights........................................................................27
United States.....................................................................................28-32
United Kingdom..................................................................................33-37
Australia..........................................................................................38-40
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AndroidTM
by AVG Technologies Q3 2015
Executive Summary
Introduction
This AVG study identifies the top battery, data and
storage consuming apps on Android™ smartphones and
tablets and includes the latest results from Q3 2015.
The huge choice of cool, interesting
and engaging apps available today for
Android handsets is what makes a
phone more than just a phone.
These apps bring social networks,
entertainment, educational information,
and productivity tools to our fingertips,
at home, in the office or on the move.
Brilliant though they are, certain apps
have a tendency to eat up the battery life,
mobile data and storage of our phones
and tablets without our realizing it –
by constantly checking for content
and feed updates, pushing through
notifications, streaming audio in
the background, delivering high-res
graphics, or simply downloading data.
If you are tired of soaring data bills,
sluggish devices, and that universally
hated red battery symbol, then read on.
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Study
Methodology
System apps and
apps with less than
1 million downloads
were ignored.
This report aims to uncover those
apps most guilty of impacting the
performance of AVG users’ Android
devices and explain just what it is
that they are doing to cause this.
Aggregated and
anonymized data
from over 1 million AVG
customers worldwide
was reviewed.
Data was collected
through AVG AntiVirus
FREE for Android
and AVG Cleaner
for Android.
No personal user
data was reviewed.
Only anonymized
data was used.
Data was
collected
in Q3 2015.
Internal metrics and usage
logs gathered by the Android
OS were used to determine
overall impact on battery
life, data volume
and storage.

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The measured vectors - battery, storage and
data plan - were normalized by calculating
the percentile based on the median values of
the apps, measured from when the app was
installed, whether used or not.
Based on our experience with consumer
preferences, AVG weighted each of the three
vectors slightly differently when calculating
the overall performance score for an app.
The calculation was therefore:
Storage*3 + Battery*2 + Traffic
Data collected in the US, UK and Australia
was statistically significant enough to be
able to produce specific tables and insights
for those markets. These can be viewed in
the appendix.
Measurement was carried out as follows:
Note that our own AVG AntiVirus & AVG Cleaner
for Android apps have been excluded because the
data for this report is collected anonymously from
these two apps, which would automatically have
put them in first place as most installed.
Battery Drain
We ranked the apps’ battery
consumption average based
on real usage data. We ignored
applications that have less than
1 million downloads according
to Google Play. We also did
not include core system apps
but left in pre-installed but
optional apps.
Storage Consumption
We ranked the apps’ storage
consumption average based on
real usage data by measuring the
size of not just the app itself but
also the additional data (e.g.
downloads, temp files or cache
data) stored over time.
Data Plan
We ranked the apps’ network
traffic consumption average
based on real usage data. We
only took into account cellular
transmitted data, ignoring the
cost-free Wi-Fi traffic.
Executive Summary
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KakaoTalk & WhatsApp on the
Rise Facebook, Instagram and the
Google Play Services app remain the
top resource-drainers across all of
our metrics (storage, battery and mobile traffic),
but now, both WhatsApp and KakaoTalk have
found their way into the top 10 most resource-
consuming background apps.
Staying relevant in the smartphone
business has Microsoft porting many
of its services, such as Office or
OneDrive, to Android and iOS. But one
of them isn’t playing nicely: Outlook has made its
way into the top 10 battery-draining apps that
users are actively running. It’s nowhere near the
top ones, like Spotify, Snapchat or Netflix, but a
simple email app shouldn’t appear on this list.
In our Q2 report, the Samsung
dominance in the Android market
became painstakingly clear, as 9
of the top 10 most-used devices
that we analyzed – those which had AVG Cleaner™
for Android or AVG AntiVirus™ for Android
installed – were made by Samsung.
Since then, we have seen a clear trend by global
usage of the most used phones, namely variants
of the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini and S4, slowly
dwindle, as the S5 is gaining momentum. The only
non-Samsung is still last year’s Sony Xperia Z2.
Look Who’s Talking Now Microsoft on Google
Device Statistic:
It’s (Still) a Samsung World
1 2 3
Our advice: Try to turn off notifications
in the apps settings when you’re running
out of juice, and limit video calling or
animated stickers in KakaoTalk.
Executive Summary
Top Findings in Q3 2015
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Supercell, now coming in strong
and only behind the literal King
of the mobile gaming market, is
now securing another spot in the
top 10 most resource-hungry apps, with its
Clash of Clans. The more things change, the
more they stay the same. My Talking Tom Free,
now joins My Talking Angela Free, as one of the
most resource-hungry games, as you constantly
need to care for a digital kitty – reminding us of
the mid-90s Tamagotchi phenomenon, only
running on high-res smartphone displays and
GBytes of memory instead of a a 32x32 pixel LCD
with just a few kilobytes of memory.
Tamagotchi Style Apps are Back,
Out to Drain Your Battery This Time
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With 500 million users, mostly in China,
WeChat is starting to head West and go
head-to-head with the likes of WhatsApp,
Snapchat and Facebook Messenger.
Unfortunately, with it, comes a big battery drain, as
WeChat made its way into the top 10 battery-draining apps
that start automatically when you turn on your Android
device – and keep on secretly guzzling your resources.
When your phone is running low on
storage, the first thing you usually
do is delete photos and music, right?
Not so fast! It’s also the data within
apps that could amount to Gigabytes of hidden
storage. According to our telemetry, Facebook,
Kindle and the Japanese NTT Docomo Email Client
rank among the top storage-eating apps that store
more files for offline use than you might think.
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Chinese WeChat in the top 10
Running Out of Space? Facebook
& Kindle Could be the Reason
Executive Summary
Our advice: If you’re on the road
without a power outlet in sight, it’s
best to avoid playing that game for
longer stretches.
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30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN
2015
Ashley Madison Usage
JUL AUG SEP OCT
3
2
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The Ashley Madison Aftermath:
Not What You’d Expect
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In July and August, when both partner finding
and cheating services, AdultFriendFinder
and Ashley Madison, got hacked and
their millions of users were revealed, the
aftermath seemed shocking, with jobs, marriages
and families being ruined. However, according to our
statistics about top installed and used apps, this category
seems to be fully recovering very quickly: Only 5% who
had the app installed during the hacking season in July
actually used it. However, in Q3, Ashley Madison went
back up to a usage ratio of 15%, which is the percentage
of people who had the app installed and actively used it.
More shockingly, it seems as if the entire category
seems to have gained momentum, following the hacks:
Competing platform, MiuMeet, saw an uplift in usage
from 50% (before July) to 73% (August an onwards); and
AnastasiaDate even went from 11% to 60% in October.
Bottom line: most users have returned to AshleyMadison
or even switched to other similar platforms.
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Top 10 Smartphones Q3 20159 out of 10 Top Devices
of 2015: Made by Samsung
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Samsung GT-i9300I Galaxy S III
Neo+ Duos / Galaxy S3 Neo
Samsung GT-i9505
Galaxy S4 Black Edition 32GB
Samsung GT-i8190
Galaxy S III Mini Crystal Edition
Samsung SM-G900MD
Galaxy S5 Duos 4G LTE-A
SamsungSM-N9005GalaxyNote
3OlympicGamesEdition
Samsung GT-i9100
Galaxy S2 Crystal Edition
Sony Xperia Z2 LTE-A D6503
Samsung GT-N7100
Galaxy Note II
Samsung GT-i9500
Galaxy S4 La Fleur Edition
Samsung GT-i9195F3
Galaxy S4 Mini LTE
2.5 milion users
1.8 milion users
0.6 milion users1.5 milion users
0.6 milion users
0.3 milion users
1.1 milion users
0.9 milion users
0.9 milion users
0.8 milion users
Looking across our entire AVG customer base,
we have a pretty good idea of which devices you
are all using. Namely – those from Samsung. 9 of
the top 10 most-used devices that we analyzed
– those which had AVG Cleaner™ for Android or
AVG AntiVirus™ for Android installed – were made
by Samsung. And we’re not just talking about the
latest and greatest models. Most of the Samsung
devices are more than 3 years old, such as the
Samsung Galaxy S2 Crystal Edition or the Note 2.
Others are low-budget Galaxy phone, like the
S3 Neo or the S4 Mini.
In fact, the only non-Samsung phone in this list,
comes from Sony: The Xperia Z2.
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The following tables show the top five apps in each
category which, according to AVG’s study, have the most
impact on your device. These tables do not include games.
Travel & Local
Racing
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
Google, Inc.
Google Play Services
2
BlackBerry Limited.
BBM
3
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
4
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
5
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
AMAZON MOBILE LLC
Amazon Kindle
2
NTT DOCOMO
Sp-Mode Mail
3
Facebook,Inc.
Facebook Pages ManagerChatON Voice & Video Chat
4
Google, Inc.
5
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
Yahoo Japan Corp.
Yahoo! Japan
AVAST Software
Antivirus & Security
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
Facebook, INc.
Instagram
Google, Inc.
Android Firmware Updater
Mobeam, Inc.
Beaming Service for Samsung
SAMSUNGOTASOFTWAREUPDATE
Security Policy Updater
SamsungElectronicsCo.,Ltd.
Google, Inc.
OVERALL
PERFORMANCE
IMPACT
HIGHEST
DATA
TRAFFIC
HIGHEST
STORAGE
CONSUMPTION
HIGHEST
BATTERY
DRAIN
Executive Summary
Scoreboard - Top Apps Run At Startup
OVERALL
PERFORMANCE
IMPACT
HIGHEST
DATA
TRAFFIC
HIGHEST
BATTERY
DRAIN
HIGHEST
STORAGE
CONSUMPTION
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AndroidTM
The following tables show the top five apps in each
impact on your device. These tables do not include games.
Travel & Local
Racing
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
1
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
2
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
3
Samsung Media Solution Center
LINE: Free Calls & Messages
4
Cheetah Mobile
CleanMaster(Booster&AppLock)
5
Samsung WatchON (Video)
1
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
2
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
3
MicrosoftCorporation
Microsoft Outlook
4
MediaApplicationsTechnologiesfortheBBC
BBC News
5
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
1
Google, Inc.
Chrome
2
Amazon Mobile LLC
Aillis
3
LINE Corporation
4
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
5
Netflix, Inc.
Netflix
1
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
2
Tumblr, Inc.
Tumblr
3
BBC News
4
Cheetah Mobile
CleanMaster(Booster&AppLock)
5
OVERALL
PERFORMANCE
IMPACT
HIGHEST
DATA
TRAFFIC
HIGHEST
STORAGE
CONSUMPTION
HIGHEST
BATTERY
DRAIN
Executive Summary
Scoreboard - Top Apps Run By User
OVERALL
PERFORMANCE
IMPACT
HIGHEST
DATA
TRAFFIC
HIGHEST
BATTERY
DRAIN
HIGHEST
STORAGE
CONSUMPTION
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The tables below look at the top five games apps in each
impact on your device.
Travel & Local
Racing
Supercell
Clash of Clans
1
King
Candy Crush Saga
2
King
Farm Heroes Saga
3
King
Candy Crush Soda Saga
4
Miniclip.com
8 Ball Pool
5
King
1
King
2
Supercell
Clash of Clans
3
4
Clean Master Games
Don’t Tap The White Tiles
5
Gameloft
Despicable Me
1
Supercell
Clash of Clans
2
Outfit7
My Talking Angela
3
Miniclip.com
8 Ball Pool
King
Farm Heroes Saga
4
Outfit7
My Talking Tom
5
Supercell
Words With Friends
1
Supercell
Farm Heroes Saga
2
Supercell
Candy Crush Saga
3
Miniclip.com
8 Ball Pool
4
King
5
OVERALL
PERFORMANCE
IMPACT
HIGHEST
BATTERY
DRAIN
HIGHEST
DATA
TRAFFIC
HIGHEST
STORAGE
CONSUMPTION
Executive Summary
Scoreboard - Top Games
OVERALL
PERFORMANCE
IMPACT
HIGHEST
DATA
TRAFFIC
HIGHEST
BATTERY
DRAIN
HIGHEST
STORAGE
CONSUMPTION
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AndroidTM
Perform a Self-Check Now
How To Identify the Top 10 Apps on YOUR Phone
B
AVG has collected this anonymized data through its
mobile AVG AntiVirus and AVG Cleaner apps. To see
what’s consuming all of your smartphone’s battery life,
storage or mobile data, we’ve developed App Manager,
which is a feature within AVG Cleaner for Android. It
quietly observes of the top resource-hungry apps
(see screenshots to the right):
Download AVG Cleaner
to check your phone!
The largest apps
on your phone
Top battery life-
draining apps
Top mobile data-
consuming apps
Apps you haven’t
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New versions of the Android™ operating system
introduce additional features that are specifically
optimized for the latest devices. But at what cost?
While new Android versions can dramatically
improve the experience for those who own
the latest smartphone or tablet, the same is
not true for older devices, whose users may
see the battery life and speed suffer.
It’s also the case that the more apps you
install, the slower your phone or tablet will
get. This is not just about the space those
apps take up being on your device, but also
the fact that a lot of apps, such as Spotify,
Skype or WhatsApp, tend to be active
even when not used and run quietly in the
background.
In this section, we will take a closer look
at the full list of apps which ranked in
the top ten for impact on battery life,
device storage and data plan – as well as
those with the overall highest ranking for
performance when combining all three of
these measurements.
The key findings are separated into
two parts:
• All apps excluding games
• Games only, which we felt were
significant enough to merit a
separate category of their own
On page 25, we will look at possible ways
to improve the battery drain, performance
draw and data usage through various steps
both inside the Android OS as well
as in specific apps.
Key Findings - Q3 2015
Introduction
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Analysis
If your phone’s battery doesn’t last through the day,
but you’ve barely even picked it up, a background
app that starts automatically might be at fault. The
10 automatically running apps you see to the left
had the most overall impact on battery life, traffic
and storage. Top spot, no surprise here, is yet
again, Facebook, with its background checks and
notifications; and The Weather Channel also makes
it into the Top 10 again. The preinstalled ChatON
app stuck out to us once more, as it’s still in the Top
10, despite being discontinued and replaced by the
Samsung Knox Message BETA everywhere
except for the US. No two ways about it:
if you’re not using it, get rid of it.
In this section, we discovered which apps had the most overall impact on mobile devices.
CATEGORY: Social Communication Business Tools Weather
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
Google, Inc.
2
BlackBerry Limited.
BBM
3
Facebook,Inc.
Instagram
4
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
5
Samsung Electronics Ltd.
ChatON Voice & Video Chat
6
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook Pages Manager
7
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
8
Kakao Corporation
KakaoTalk
9
10WhatsApp Messenger
WhatsApp, Inc.
TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - RUN AT START UP
HIGHEST
IMPACT
World’s Greediest Mobile Apps
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Analysis
Yet again, Snapchat takes the crown as well as
Spotify, Line and Amazon’s Shopping apps, in the
category of actively used apps with the heaviest
resource drain. Interesting: Newcomer, Microsoft
Outlook, seems to be responsible for a significant
amount of resource usage, which could very well
be caused by users actually checking it every other
minute or syncing it too frequently. If you’re living
inside Outlook, and feel like it’s draining your
resources too fast, go to the settings menu and
turn off notifications. Also make sure that it doesn’t
eat up your storage by limiting the synchronization
with your email to the last 30 days.
CATEGORY: Social CommunicationMusic & Audio EntertainmentTools Newspaper & MagazinesShopping
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
1
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
2
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
3
LINE Corporation
4
Clean Master (Boost & AppLock)
5
6
Netflix, Inc.
Netflix
7
Media Applications Technologies for the BBC
BBC News
8
Amazon Mobile LLC
Microsoft Corporation
Amazon Shopping (Global)
9
10Microsoft Outlook
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - RUN BY USER
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In this category, we split out those apps which run automatically when you turn on your
smartphone or tablet and keep on running in the background all the time as part of their core
functionality. This could, for example, include antivirus apps, messaging apps or social apps.
CATEGORY: Social Communication Productivity Tools Weather
10
Google, Inc.
Android Firmware
Updater
1
Mobeam, Inc.
BeamingServiceforSamsung
2
SAMSUNG OTA SOFTWARE UPDATE
SecurityPolicyUpdater
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
3
4
Google, Inc.
WeChat Tencent
WeChat
5
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
6
BlackBerry Limited.
BBM
7
WhatsApp, Inc.
WhatsApp Messenger
8
Devexpert.NET
Weather & Clock
Widget Android
9
TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS – RUN AT START UP
HIGHEST
IMPACT
Analysis
The now long-deposed handset maker, BlackBerry,
continues to live on with its iOS and Android app,
BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), even enjoying an
ever-growing community. However, beware of its
side effects, because it continues to hold a spot in
the top 10 hidden startup apps with the highest
battery drain, going back to our very first
App Report from Q3/Q4 2014.
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CATEGORY: Social CommunicationNewspaper & MagazinesEntertainment Shopping
& Local
Productivity Tools
1
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
2
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
3
Microsoft Outlook
4
BBC News
5
Netflix, Inc.
Netflix
Samsung
WatchON (Video)
6
LINE Corporation
7
Cheetah Mobile
Clean Master (Boost&AppLock)
8
Walmart
Amazon Mobile LLC
Walmart
9
10Amazon Shopping (Global)
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS - RUN BY USER Analysis
The Christmas and winter season seem to be
getting closer, as our shopping habits ramp up,
and we’re spending more time inside reading
books: that’s why two Amazon Shopping apps,
the Walmart app, and the BBC News app made
their way into the top 10.
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Your favorite everyday apps could be using up more of
the precious limited storage on your device than you might realize.
Analysis
The official Google Search app stores more than its name
suggests, making you wonder why a search tool keeps
so much data stored locally. Our advice: use AVG Cleaner
for Android to fully delete the app and reinstall it if it’s
consuming too much space. Living in Japan? Then watch
out for your carrier NTT Docomo’s pre-installed email app
(SP-Mode Mail), which is one of most storage eating apps,
across the globe, and just slightly behind global apps,
such as Facebook and Kindle.
CATEGORY: Social Communication
& Local
Books & ReferenceToolsBusiness
1
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Kindle
2
NTT DOCOMO
Sp-Mode Mail
3
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook Pages Manager
4
Google, Inc.
5
Skype, Inc.
Skype
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
6
Facebook,Inc.
Instagram
7
Tango
Tango: Free Video Calls & Text
8
Google, Inc.
Google
10
9
WeChat
WeChat Tencent
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 STORAGE EATERS - RUN AT START UP
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Analysis
This year, both Spotify Music and Google Chrome
kept their number 1 and 2 spots of apps that consume
the most space on your phone.
Why a Filters & Stickers app for LINE messenger is
consuming so much space, just behind a web browser
(which caches a complete website offline) and Spotify
(which could store GBs of music on your phone) is
beyond us: AVG App Manager, a feature of AVG
Cleaner for Android can keep an eye out for Filters &
Stickers storage consumption, and simply reinstall it
if it grows out of control, which will restore its
cached files. The other apps that shouldn’t
store so many files locally, are TripAdvisor
and Amazon’s shopping apps.
CATEGORY: CommunicationMusic & Audio Shopping
& Local
ToolsPhotographyTravel & Local
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
1
Google, Inc.
Chrome
2
LINE Corporation
Aillis - Filters & Stickers
3
LINE Corporation
4
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
5
TripAdvisor, Inc.
TripAdvisor Hotels Flights
6
Amazon Mobile LLC
7
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
8
Cheetah Mobile
Aviary, Inc.
9
10Photo Editor by Aviary
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 STORAGE EATERS - RUN BY USER
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Many of the apps you love the most can impact heavily on your data plan, which is why
if you are watching your monthly bills, you might want to use these apps with care.
Analysis
It’s perfectly fine for Facebook, Instagram or radio
streaming service, iHeartRadio, to consume mobile traffic,
but if an antivirus app or the APUS Launcher consume your
data volume, it’s time to raise some eyebrows.
CATEGORY: Social Shopping Music & Audio
& Local
Tools Newspaper
& MagazinesWeather Personalization
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
Yahoo! Japan Corp Google, Inc.
Yahoo! JAPAN Google Play Services
2
Avast Software
Antivirus & Security
3
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
Groupon, Inc.
Groupon-DailyDeals,Coupons
4
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
5
iHeartMedia, Inc.
iHeartRadio - Radio & Music
6
7
Apus Group
APUS Launcher -
Small, Fast, Boost
8
9
10Earth Networks
WeatherBug
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - RUN AT START UP
Top Ten Data Traffic Hogs
C
Our advice: Try turning off as many of their
data-consuming features as possible; or find
an alternative, if their traffic keeps exceeding
your mobile limit. You can also use AVG Cleaner
for Android’s App Manager to check which apps
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Analysis
No surprise here: video streaming service, Netflix,
consumes the most mobile traffic among apps that
users actively run. What does come as a surprise,
however, is that Photo Editor by Aviary is in the top
10, which is likely due to its ability to share files across
all your social networks.
CATEGORY: Social Music & Audio
Newspaper
& Magazines Entertainment
& Local
ProductivityTools LifestylePhotography
Netflix, Inc.
Netflix
1
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
2
Tumblr, Inc.
Tumblr
3
BBC News
4
Cheetah Mobile
5
6
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
7
Aviary, Inc.
Photo Editor by Aviary
8
Tinder
Microsoft Outlook
9
10Tinder
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - RUN BY USER
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Many of the games you love the most can impact heavily on your
device performance, so if you are watching your battery or storage
levels, you might want to choose when to use these apps.
Analysis
And King has been dethroned again: while still
holding ranks 2, 3 and 4 with its Candy Crush and
Farm Heroes Saga games, Clash of Clans is now
the top performance-consuming app. Newcomer,
Don’t Tap the White Tile, doesn’t display very
fancy graphics, yet continues to drain resources
more than hundreds of other games do on this list.
CATEGORY: ArcadeStrategy Casual Action
Supercell
Clash of Clans
1
King
Candy Crush Saga
2
King
Farm Heroes Saga
3
King
4
Miniclip.com
8 Ball pool
5
Outfit7
My Talking Angela
6
Clean Master Games
Don't Tap The White Tile
7
Gameloft
Despicable Me
8
Outfit7
Yodo1 Games
My Talking Tom
9
10Crossy Road
TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - GAMES
HIGHEST
IMPACT
Mobile Gaming - What Gamers Should Know
C
Our advice: Just limit its usage,
and you should be good.

AndroidTM
Based on AVG’s global statistics, the following list shows
the top 50 most used apps on AVG users’ Android devices.
App Usage Trends
Introduction
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AndroidTM
1 Google Play Store 11 Google Play Music 21 Skype 31 Adobe Acrobat Reader 41 Google Translate
2 YouTube 12 Google Play Games 22 S Suggest 32 Viber 42 Adobe Flash Player
3 Google+ 13 Hangouts 23 Dropbox 33 HP Print Service Plugin 43 Super-Bright LED Flashlight
4 Google 14 Google Play Newsstand 24 ChatON 34 Twitter 44 Google News & Weather
5 Google Text-To-Speech 15 Messenger 25 Instagram 35 Google Street View 45 Samsung Billing
6 Gmail 16 Samsung Push Service 26 Flipboard 36 Clean Master 46 Google Earth
7 Map 17 Google Play Books 27 Samsung In-App Purchase 37 LINE: Free Calls & Messages 47 Voice Search
8 Google Talkback 18 WhatsApp Messenger 28 Android Firmware Updater 38 Group Play 48 Yahoo! Mail
9 Facebook 19 Google Play Movies & TV 29 Samsung Account 39 Candy Crush Saga 49 OfficeSuite 8 + PDF Editor
10 Chrome 20 Google Drive 30 Samsung Link 40 Samsung Print Service 50 Google Keyboard
App Usage Trends
Top 50 Installed Apps
D
Analysis
Surprise, surprise! The top 15 most-installed apps across
all Android devices are all from Google, such as the built-
in Play Store, Hangouts, Chrome or Gmail, with one,
notable exception: Facebook, which is installed on 69%
of all Android devices, worldwide. That’s Surprisingly
low, given its dominance, but the rest of these users
either don’t use Facebook, or simply use the web version
in Google Chrome. The second app after Facebook and
its FB Messenger companion is WhatsApp, which is
installed on 51% of all Android users devices. Gaming
plays a big role in the mobile world, with Candy Crush
Saga installed on 15.8% of all smartphones measured.
Funny. It seems that both Samsung and HP managed
to sneak their printer support apps onto 20% and
13%,respectively, of all users’ smartphones.

AndroidTM
Android devices have to walk a fine line trying to restrict the resource consumption of apps, but
not limit their functionality too much. We all love our apps, and we don’t want to stop using them.
Addressing the Issues
Insights into Android Device and App Optimization
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AndroidTM
Here are 7 easy steps to help you boost battery life,
stop storage eaters and save mobile traffic.
Limit notifications to save battery
life, performance and mobile data:
Phone notifications are one of the most useful
mobile inventions, giving users information
they need to know about new appointments
or messages at a glance. But not all of them
are useful, and they can consume resources.
Limit apps battery & performance drain:
Reduce background features, refresh intervals,
location usage or in-app notifications.

Free up space:
Apps collect clutter over time. Use AVG Cleaner
for Android to get rid of temporary files.
Reduce data traffic:
Turn off background data transfers or any offline
reading features within your app if you don’t want
it to consume mobile traffic.
Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS:
To save more battery life, turn off all the hardware
features you don’t need at any given moment.

Turn down brightness:
If you’re not in bright sunlight, we recommend turning
the brightness levels down to 50-70%.
Why? On many of today’s big phones and tablets,
the display is responsible for up to 80% of the
entire power consumption.
Get rid of performance-sapping apps:
Our AVG Cleaner for Android analyzes the top
battery, storage, and traffic-hogging apps on
your device. If you don’t need one of these apps,
you can easily uninstall it and look for more resource-
friendly alternatives.
We’ve put together a
comprehensive guide
for all consumers and
businesses looking to
address the issues
outlined in this report.
Click here to download
the full PDF guide.
Addressing the Issues
7 Ways to Boost Battery Life, Free Up
Storage and Reduce Mobile Data Traffic
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AndroidTM
Our blogs, press information and resources
on how to get the most out of your connected
devices at AVG Now: http://now.avg.com
Our website for details about our performance
products: http://www.avg.com/performance
Contact:
Tony Anscombe - Senior Security Evangelist
tony.anscombe@avg.com
Sandro Villinger - Performance PR
sandro.villinger.contractor@avg.com
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Google®
is a trademark of Google Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.
Google Chrome™ and Android™ are trademarks of Google Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.
Facebook®
is a trademark of Facebook, Inc., registered in the United States and in other countries.
Twitter®
is a trademark of Twitter Inc., registered in the United States and in other countries.
Amazon™ is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc registered in the United States and other countries.
Apple®
is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.
Contact Information
For further information, please visit:
E

AndroidTM
In this section, you can find the app resource
consumption analysis for the United States,
the United Kingdom and Australia. We used
the same methods to calculate the rankings
as before, but this time only took into
account performance data of users
from these specific countries.
Appendix
App Resource Consumption Analysis
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY: Social CommunicationMusic & Audio Entertainment
vel & Local
Tools
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
2
Google, Inc.
3
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
4
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
5
6
Netflix, Inc.
Netflix
7
8
Cheetah Mobile
Facebook, Inc.
9
10Messenger
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS – EXCLUDING GAMES
CATEGORY:
Travel & Local
Arcade Strategy Casual Word Racing
Supercell
Clash of Clans
1
Zynga
Words With Friends
2
King
Candy Crush Saga
3
4
5
King
6
Kiloo
Subway Surf
Fingersoft
Hill Climb Racing
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 6 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS – GAMES ONLY
* Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria
Appendix
USA
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY: SocialProductivity ToolsCommunication
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Google, Inc.
Android
Firmware Updater
Security Policy Updates
Mobeam, Inc.
Google, Inc.
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
WhatsApp, Inc.
WhatsApp Messenger
Straight Talk Communications
Straight Talk My account
Lookout Mobile Security
Kik Interactive
Security & Antivirus | Lookout
Kik
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS – RUN AT START UP
CATEGORY: Social Entertainment
Travel & Local
ToolsProductivityCommunication Shopping
Samsung
WatchON (Video)
1
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
2
Netﬂix, Inc.
Netflix
3
Surpax, Inc.
Super-Bright LED Torch
4
Cheetah Mobile
CleanMaster(Boost&AppLock)
5
Walmart
Walmart
6
Amazon Mobile LLC
7
LINE Corporation
8
Spotify Ltd.
Twitter, Inc.
Spotify Music
9
10Twitter
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS - RUN BY USER
Appendix
USA
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY:
Racing
vel & Local
ArcadeStrategy Casual WordRacing
King
CandyCrushSodaSaga
1
King
Candy Crush Saga
2
Supercell
Clash of Clans
3
4
5
Zynga
Words With Friends
6
Fingersoft
Hill Climbing Racing
Kiloo
Subway Surf
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 6 BATTERY DRAINERS - GAMES ONLY
CATEGORY: Social Entertainment
Travel & Local
Books & ReferenceCommunication Media & VideoMusic & AudioTools
1
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
2
Google, Inc.
Chrome
3
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Kindle
4
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
5
Vine Labs
Vine
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
6
Skype, Inc.
Skype
7
Google, Inc.
8
Google, Inc.
Google, Inc.
Google
9
10YouTube
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 STORAGE EATERS – EXCLUDING GAMES
Appendix
USA
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY:
vel & Local
ArcadeStrategy Casual Word Racing
1
Kiloo
Subway Surf
2
Zynga
Words With Friends
3
4
5
King
Candy Crush Saga
supercell
Clash of Clans
6
Fingersoft
Hill Climb Racing
King
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 6 STORAGE EATERS – GAMES ONLY
CATEGORY: Social EntertainmentMusic & Audio
Travel & Local
Productivity Weather Tools
1
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
2
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
3
Instagram, Inc.
Instagram
4
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
5
Mobeam, Inc.
Netflix, Inc.
Netflix
6
Google, Inc.
7
iHeartMedia, Inc.
iHeartRadio - Radio & Music
8
Spotify ltd.
Spotify Music
9
10Security Policy Updates
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - EXCLUDING GAMES
Appendix
USA
F

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AndroidTM
CATEGORY:
vel & Local
ArcadeStrategyCasualWord Racing
1
Supercell
Clash of Clans
2
King
Candy Crush Saga
3
King
Zynga
Words With Friends
4
Kiloo
Subway Surf
5
Fingersoft
Hill Climb Racing
6
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 6 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - GAMES ONLY
Appendix
USA
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY: Social CommunicationMusic & Audio
vel & Local
Tools Shopping
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
Google, Inc.
2
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
3
Snapchat Inc.
Snapchat
4
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
5
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
6
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
7
Cheetah Mobile
8
Twitter, inc.
Viber Media S.à r.l.
Twitter
9
10Viber
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - EXCLUDING GAMES
CATEGORY:
Travel & Local
Casual
King
Candy Crush Saga
1 2King
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - GAMES ONLY *
Appendix
UNITED KINGDOM
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AndroidTM
ShoppingCATEGORY: Social Communication
vel & Local
ProductivityTools
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Google, Inc.
Android
Firmware Updater
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
Google, Inc.
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
AVG Mobile
AVG Cleaner & Battery Saver
WhatsApp, Inc.
WhatsApp Messenger
Facebook,Inc.
Instagram
Microsoft Outlook
Groupon, Inc.
Adobe
Groupon - Daily Deals, Coupons
Adobe AIR
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS - RUN AT START UP
CATEGORY: Social Entertainment Music & Audio
Travel & Local
ProductivityTools Newspaper & Magazines Shopping
1
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Shopping UK
2
BBC News
3
Cheetah Mobile
4
Twitter, Inc.
Twitter
5
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
6
Amazon Mobile LLC
7
Google, Inc.
Google+
8
BT Group PLC
Adobe
BT Wi-Fi
9
10Adobe Reader
HIGHEST
IMPACT
Appendix
UNITED KINGDOM
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY:
vel & Local
Casual
King
Candy Crush Saga
1 2King
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP BATTERY DRAINERS - GAMES ONLY *
CATEGORY: Social CommunicationMusic & Audio
Travel & Local
Books & ReferenceTravel & Local ToolsShopping
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
Spotify Ltd.
Spotify Music
2
Google, Inc.
Chrome
3
Amazon Mobile LLC
Amazon Kindle
4
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
5
Skype, Inc.
Skype
6
Google, Inc.
7
TripAdvisor, Inc.
TripAdvisor
8
Amazon Mobile LLC
Google, Inc.
Amazon Shopping UK
9
10Google
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 STORAGE EATERS - EXCLUDING GAMES
Appendix
UNITED KINGDOM
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY:
vel & Local
Casual
1 2King
King
Candy Crush Saga
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP STORAGE EATERS - GAMES ONLY *
CATEGORY: Social CommunicationNewspaper & Magazines Entertainment
Travel & Local
Shopping Tools
Snapchat, Inc.
Snapchat
1
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
2
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
3
BBC News
4
Google, Inc.
5
Groupon, Inc.
Groupon - Daily Deals, Coupons
6
Yahoo Corp.
Yahoo! Mail
7
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
8
Cheetah Mobile
Microsoft Outlook
9
10Clean Master (Boost & AppLock)
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - EXCLUDING GAMES
Appendix
UNITED KINGDOM
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AndroidTM
CATEGORY:
vel & Local
Casual
King
1 2King
Candy Crush Soda SagaCandy Crush Saga
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - GAMES ONLY *
Appendix
UNITED KINGDOM
F

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AndroidTM
CATEGORY: Social Communication Productivity Tools Finance
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
1
Google, Inc.
2
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
3
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
4
Skype
5
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
CommBank
6
Viber
7
Google, Inc.
Google Search
8
AVG Mobile
Google, Inc.
AntiVirus FREE
9
10Android
Firmware Updater
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - EXCLUDING GAMES
Travel & Local
Productivity Tools Finance
Google,Inc.
Android
Firmware Updater
1
Samsung OTA Software Update
Security Policy Update
2
Google, Inc.
3
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
4
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
5
WhatsApp, Inc.
WhatsApp Messenger
6
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
7
AVG Mobile
AntiVirus FREE
8
Skype
9
10CommBank
TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS - RUN AT START UP
HIGHEST
IMPACT
Appendix
AUSTRALIA
F

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AndroidTM
Travel & Local
ToolsTravel & Local FinanceMedia & Video
1
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
2
Google, Inc.
Chrome
3
Skype
4
Google, Inc.
5
Google, Inc.
Google
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
6
TripAdvisor, Inc.
TripAdvisor
7
CommBank
8
Google, Inc.
YouTube
9
10Viber
HIGHEST
IMPACT
TOP 10 STORAGE EATERS
CATEGORY: Social Communication Music
& Audio
vel & Local
Books &
Reference
ToolsNewspaper
& Magazines
Travel & Local Productivity
1
Google, Inc.
Google+
2
Google, Inc.
Google Play Music
3
Flipboard
Flipboard
4
TripAdvisor, Inc.
TripAdvisor
5
Google, Inc.
Google Play Newsstand
Google, Inc.
GoogleText-To-Speech
6
Google, Inc.
Chrome
7
Google, Inc.
Google Docs
8
Google, Inc.
AVG Mobile
Google Play Books
9
10AntiVirus FREE
HIGHEST
IMPACT
Appendix
AUSTRALIA
F

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AndroidTM
vel & Local
ProductivityTools Finance
1
Facebook, Inc.
Instagram
2
Google, Inc.
3
Facebook, Inc.
Messenger
4
Samsung OTA Software Update
Security Policy Update
5
CommBank
Facebook, Inc.
Facebook
6
Skype
7
AVG Mobile
AntiVirus FREE
8
Google, Inc.
Google
9
10Viber
TOP 10 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS
HIGHEST
IMPACT
Appendix
AUSTRALIA
F

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