Top Downloaded iOS Apps of 2014 Include Minecraft, YouTube, Heads Up and Facebook MessengerApple today shared cumulative lists of the
best performing apps in the App Store across 2014 with various media sites and on iTunes, highlighting the iPad Top Paid, iPad Top Free, iPhone Top Paid, and iPhone Top Free apps that were most popular with consumers this year.
The number one free iPhone app in 2014 was
Facebook Messenger, which continues to have a two and a half star rating in the App Store due to Facebook's unpopular decision to
remove messaging capabilities from the main
Facebook app in an effort to get users to download the standalone
Facebook Messenger app. Other popular free iPhone apps included
Snapchat,
Instagram, and
Google Maps, with the top 10 listed below.
1.
Facebook Messenger 2.
Snapchat 3.
YouTube 4.
Facebook 5.
Instagram 6.
Pandora Radio 7.
Google Maps 8.
Flipagram 9.
Spotify Music 10.
2048 The number one paid iPhone app in 2014 was popular party game
Heads Up!, which was skyrocketed to fame thanks to its multiple appearances on The Ellen Degeneres Show. First launched in 2013,
Heads Up! asks players to guess a word based on clues given by friends. Other popular paid iPhone apps included workout app
7 Minute Workout Challenge and photo editing app
Afterlight.
1.
Heads Up! 2.
Minecraft - Pocket Edition 3.
Afterlight 4.
Plague Inc. 5.
Sleep Cycle alarm clock 6.
Facetune 7.
Cut the Rope 2 8.
Bloons TD 5 9.
A Dark Room 10.
7 Minute Workout Challenge The most popular paid iPad app was, unsurprisingly,
Minecraft - Pocket Edition, which also ranked as one of the top paid iPhone apps.
Minecraft first debuted on iOS in 2011, but since that time, the app has been updated more than 20 times with new features, better graphics, bug fixes, and more. Its constant updates and pervasive popularity have kept it in the top list of apps for several years running. Other popular paid iPad apps were
Terraria,
Notability, and Minecraft-style apps
Survivalcraft and
Terraria.
1.
Minecraft - Pocket Edition 2.
Cut the Rope 2 3.
Heads Up! 4.
The Room Two 5.
Survivalcraft 6.
Notability 7.
Terraria 8.
Plants vs. Zombies HD 9.
Hide N Seek : Mini Game With Worldwide Multiplayer 10.
Card Wars - Adventure Time The App Store's most popular free iPad app for 2014 was Google's
YouTube app, which is a standalone app that lets users watch YouTube videos on their devices. YouTube used to be included with iOS, but the dedicated app was removed with iOS 6, prompting Google to release an app in 2012.
Netflix was the second most downloaded free iPad app in 2014, followed by a calculator app,
Skype, and
Microsoft Word.
Facebook and
Facebook Messenger, two of the most popular free iPhone apps, were also popular on the iPad.
1.
YouTube 2.
Netflix 3.
Calculator for iPad Free 4.
Skype for iPad 5.
Microsoft Word 6.
Facebook Messenger 7.
Facebook 8.
Candy Crush Saga 9.
Chrome 10.
Clash of Clans Top grossing apps for the year included
Clash of Clans,
Candy Crush Saga,
Game of War - Fire Age,
Pandora Radio, and
Big Fish Casino.
Earlier this month, Apple
released its iTunes Store awards, highlighting some of the best apps, music, movies, and TV shows that were released in 2014. Those winning apps included
Elevate - Brain Training,
Threes!,
Pixelmator, and
Monument Valley. Of those apps, only two made Apple's top charts for 2014 --
Threes! was the 25th top paid iPhone app while
Monument Valley was the 46th top paid iPhone app and 35th top paid iPad app.
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