Greeting card applications and a number of games dominated our list of apps growing by daily active users this week. Washington Post’s Social Reader, an iPad app, birthdays and tab applications made the list. The titles below grew between 178,000 and 560,000 DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook.
Top Gainers This Week
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.
The titles below grew from between 180,000 and 7.3 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook.
Top Gainers This Week
Topping our list this week, Daily Horoscope with 7. 3 million DAU and a similar version, ????????????? ???????, with 800,000 DAU. These apps often ask users to post daily to their Walls. Spotify grew by 1.8 million DAU, while Samsung Mobile grew by 1 million DAU. The aforementioned social networks on our list this week included: Nimbuzz Mobile app for mobile devices with 870,000 DAU, Onedate dating app with 530,000 DAU and dating app Niik with 280,000 DAU.
Assorted apps on our list included Social Statistics, which publishes a list of top friends to the feed, and grew by 740,000 DAU. Then there was a sophisticated video app, SmoothTV, with 678,000 DAU. Genealogy app Family Tree grew by 360,000 DAU. Finally, Microsoft Live grew by 300,000 DAU.
The rest of the list included the aforementioned greeting card applications which principally worked by asking users to send cards to their friends. Greeting Cards Grew by 480,000 DAU, Greeting Cards grew by 230,000 DAU, Cards grew by 220,000 DAU, Greetings grew by 210,000 DAU and Greeting Cards grew by 180,000 DAU.
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.
Top Gainers This Week
Birthday calendars topped our list this week. MyCalendar – Birthdays grew by 3.6 million DAU, Birthday Calendar grew by 3 million DAU, ???? – ?? by 1.2 million DAU and MiCalendario – Cumpleaños by 640,000 DAU. These apps require users to invite friends before use, and may secure growth that way.
Then a pair of quiz apps made the list, in Spanish and Portuguese. 21 Preguntas which grew by 810,000 DAU and 21 Perguntas with 430,00 DAU. These types of apps usually ask users to answer questions about friends, then publish feed stories with answers.
The middle of the list was made up of a mixed bag of apps. Bing’s app grew by 600,000 MAU, Yahoo grew by 560,000 DAU, Pandora by 500,000 DAU, Spotify by 500,000 DAU and MyPad for iPad by 400,000 DAU. The photo sharing app, Mis Fotos, grew by 350,000 DAU; the app generates feed stories when users interact with friends’ photos. Then Microsoft Live grew by 300,000 DAU; the app is a Windows Messenger integration.
The end of the list was taken up by four different apps that are the same thing. Greeting Cards grew by 240,000 DAU, Greetings by 240,000 DAU, Greeting Cards by 220,000 DAU and Greeting Cards by 210,000 DAU. The app is a Connect integration to myfriendsgreetings.com showing friends with upcoming birthdays, and allowing users to select from different types of cards, ex: Christmas, New Year, Kwanzaa, etc.
All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.
