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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015

The online security companyTM Protecting more than 200 million active users. 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 Click Top Ten Data Traffic Hogs...... 19-20 here Mobile Gaming - What Gamers Should Know...... 21 D App Usage Trends...... 22 Introduction...... 22 Top 50 Installed Apps...... 23 . 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

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 1 A Executive Summary Introduction

This AVG study identifies the top battery, data and

storage consuming apps on Android™ and 06 Aggregated and anonymized data tablets and includes the latest results from Q3 2015. System apps and from over 1 million AVG apps with less than customers worldwide 1 million downloads was reviewed. 01 were ignored. The huge choice of cool, interesting by constantly checking for content and engaging apps available today for and feed updates, pushing through Android handsets is what makes a notifications, streaming audio in Study No personal user data was reviewed. phone more than just a phone. the background, delivering high-res 05 Methodology Only anonymized These apps bring social networks, graphics, or simply downloading data. This report aims to uncover those data was used. Data was apps most guilty of impacting the entertainment, educational information, collected performance of AVG users’ Android and productivity tools to our fingertips, If you are tired of soaring data bills, in Q3 2015. devices and explain just what it is that they are doing to cause this. at home, in the office or on the move. sluggish devices, and that universally hated red battery symbol, then read on. 02 Brilliant though they are, certain apps have a tendency to eat up the battery life, Data was collected mobile data and storage of our phones Internal metrics and usage through AVG AntiVirus and tablets without our realizing it – logs gathered by the Android FREE for Android 04 OS were used to determine and AVG Cleaner overall impact on battery for Android. life, data volume and storage. 03

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 2 A Executive Summary Introduction cont...

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. Battery Drain Storage Consumption Data Plan

We ranked the apps’ battery We ranked the apps’ storage We ranked the apps’ network Based on our experience with consumer consumption average based consumption average based on traffic consumption average preferences, AVG weighted each of the three on real usage data. We ignored real usage data by measuring the based on real usage data. We vectors slightly differently when calculating applications that have less than size of not just the app itself but only took into account cellular the overall performance score for an app. 1 million downloads according also the additional data (e.g. transmitted data, ignoring the The calculation was therefore: to Play. We also did downloads, temp or cache cost-free Wi-Fi traffic. not include core system apps data) stored over time. Storage*3 + Battery*2 + Traffic but left in pre-installed but optional apps. Data collected in the US, UK and Australia was statistically significant enough to be able to produce specific and insights for those markets. These can be viewed in the appendix. Note that our own AVG AntiVirus & AVG Cleaner for Android apps have been excluded because the data for this report is collected anonymously from Measurement was carried out as follows: these two apps, which would automatically have put them in first place as most installed.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 3 A Executive Summary Top Findings in Q3 2015

Device Statistic: 1 Look Who’s Talking Now 2 on Google 3 It’s (Still) a Samsung World

KakaoTalk & WhatsApp on the Staying relevant in the In our Q2 report, the Samsung Rise Facebook, Instagram and the business has Microsoft porting many dominance in the Android market Services app remain the of its services, such as Office or became painstakingly clear, as 9 top resource-drainers across all of OneDrive, to Android and iOS. But one of the top 10 most-used devices our metrics (storage, battery and mobile traffic), of them isn’t playing nicely: Outlook has made its that we analyzed – those which had AVG Cleaner™ but now, both WhatsApp and KakaoTalk have way into the top 10 battery-draining apps that for Android or AVG AntiVirus™ for Android found their way into the top 10 most resource- users are actively running. It’s nowhere near the installed – were made by Samsung. consuming background apps. top ones, like Spotify, or Netflix, but a simple email app shouldn’t appear on this list. Since then, we have seen a clear trend by global usage of the most used phones, namely variants Our advice: Try to turn off notifications of the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini and S4, slowly in the apps settings when you’re running dwindle, as the S5 is gaining momentum. The only out of juice, and limit video calling or non-Samsung is still last year’s Sony Xperia Z2. animated stickers in KakaoTalk.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 4 A Executive Summary Top Findings in Q3 2015

4 Tamagotchi Style Apps are Back, 5 Chinese WeChat in the top 10 Out to Drain Your Battery This Time

Supercell, now coming in strong With 500 million users, mostly in China, and only behind the literal King WeChat is starting to head West and go of the mobile gaming market, is head-to-head with the likes of WhatsApp, now securing another spot in the Snapchat and . top 10 most resource-hungry apps, with its Unfortunately, with it, comes a big battery drain, as Clash of Clans. The more things change, the WeChat made its way into the top 10 battery-draining apps more they stay the same. My Talking Tom Free, that start automatically when you turn on your Android now joins My Talking Angela Free, as one of the device – and keep on secretly guzzling your resources. most resource-hungry games, as you constantly need to care for a digital kitty – reminding us of Running Out of Space? Facebook the mid-90s Tamagotchi phenomenon, only 6 & Kindle Could be the Reason running on high-res smartphone displays and GBytes of memory instead of a a 32x32 LCD When your phone is running low on with just a few kilobytes of memory. storage, the first thing you usually do is delete photos and music, right? Not so fast! It’s also the data within Our advice: If you’re on the road apps that could amount to Gigabytes of hidden without a power outlet in sight, it’s storage. According to our telemetry, Facebook, best to avoid playing that game for Kindle and the Japanese NTT Docomo Email Client longer stretches. rank among the top storage-eating apps that store more files for offline use than you might think.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 5 A Executive Summary Top Findings in Q3 2015 Ashley Madison Usage Ashley Madison Usage 7 The Ashley Madison Aftermath: Not What You’d Expect 30% 30% In July and August, when both partner finding 25% 25% and cheating services, AdultFriendFinder 20% 20% and Ashley Madison, got hacked and 15% 15% their millions of users were revealed, the 10% 10% aftermath seemed shocking, with jobs, marriages 5% 5% and families being ruined. However, according to our statistics about top installed and used apps, this category 0% 0% seems to be fully recovering very quickly: Only 5% who JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT had the app installed during the hacking season in July actually used it. However, in Q3, Ashley Madison went 2015 2015 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 Ashley Madison Usage AnastasiaDate even went from 11% to 60% in October. Bottom : most users have returned to AshleyMadison 30% or even switched to other similar platforms. 25% 20% 15% 10% AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report 5% << Contents 6 by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 0% JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT

2015 A Executive Summary Top Findings in Q3 2015

9 out of 10 Top Devices 8 Top 10 Smartphones Q3 2015 of 2015: Made by Samsung

Looking across our entire AVG customer base, Samsung GT-i9300I Galaxy S III Samsung GT-i9500 1 Neo+ Duos / Galaxy S3 Neo 6 Galaxy S4 La Fleur Edition we have a pretty good idea of which devices you 2.5 milion users 0.9 milion users 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 Samsung GT-i9505 Samsung GT-i9195F3 AVG AntiVirus™ for Android installed – were made 2 Galaxy S4 Black Edition 32GB 7 Galaxy S4 Mini LTE by Samsung. And we’re not just talking about the 1.8 milion users 0.8 milion users 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. Samsung SM-G900MD Samsung GT-i8190 Others are low-budget Galaxy phone, like the 3 Galaxy S5 Duos 4G LTE-A 8 Galaxy S III Mini Crystal Edition 1.5 milion users 0.6 milion users S3 Neo or the S4 Mini.

In fact, the only non-Samsung phone in this list, Samsung SM-N9005 Galaxy Note comes from Sony: The Xperia Z2. Sony Xperia Z2 LTE-A D6503 4 1.1 milion users 9 3 Olympic Games Edition 0.6 milion users

Samsung GT-N7100 Samsung GT-i9100 5 Galaxy Note II 10 Galaxy S2 Crystal Edition 0.9 milion users 0.3 milion users

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 7 A Executive Summary Scoreboard - Top Apps Run At Startup

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.

OVERALLOVERALL HIGHESTHIGHEST HIGHESTHIGHEST HIGHESTHIGHEST PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE DATADATA BATTERYBATTERY STORAGESTORAGE IMPACTIMPACT TRAFFICTRAFFIC DRAINDRAIN CONSUMPTIONCONSUMPTION

Facebook Facebook Android Firmware Updater Facebook 1 Facebook, Inc. 1 Facebook, Inc. 1 Google, Inc. 1 Facebook, Inc.

Google Play Services Yahoo! Japan Beaming Service for Samsung Kindle 2 Google, Inc. 2 Yahoo Japan Corp. 2 Mobeam, Inc. 2 AMAZON MOBILE LLC

BBM Antivirus & Security Security Policy Updater Sp-Mode Mail 3 BlackBerry Limited. 3 AVAST Software 3 SAMSUNG OTA SOFTWARE UPDATE 3 NTT DOCOMO

Instagram The Weather Channel ChatON Voice & Video Chat Facebook Manager 4 Facebook, Inc. 4 The Weather Channel 4 Co., Ltd. 4 Facebook, Inc.

Messenger Instagram Google Play Services Facebook, Inc. Facebook, INc. Google, Inc. Google, Inc. Racing 5 5 5 5

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 8 A Executive Summary Scoreboard - Top Apps Run By User

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.

OVERALLOVERALL HIGHESTHIGHEST HIGHESTHIGHEST HIGHESTHIGHEST PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE DATADATA BATTERYBATTERY STORAGESTORAGE IMPACTIMPACT TRAFFICTRAFFIC DRAINDRAIN CONSUMPTIONCONSUMPTION

Snapchat Netflix Samsung WatchON (Video) Spotify Music 1 Snapchat, Inc. 1 Netflix, Inc. 1 Samsung Media Solution Center 1 Spotify Ltd.

Amazon Shopping UK Snapchat Snapchat Chrome 2 Amazon Mobile LLC 2 Snapchat, Inc. 2 Snapchat, Inc. 2 Google, Inc.

Spotify Music Tumblr Amazon Shopping UK Aillis 3 Spotify Ltd. 3 Tumblr, Inc. 3 Amazon Mobile LLC 3 Amazon Mobile LLC

LINE: Free Calls & BBC News Microsoft Outlook LINE: Free Calls & Messages 4 Samsung Media Solution Center 4 Media Applications Technologies for the BBC 4 Microsoft Corporation 4 LINE Corporation

Clean Master (Booster & AppLock) Clean Master (Booster & AppLock) BBC News Amazon Shopping UK Cheetah Mobile Cheetah Mobile Media Applications Technologies for the BBC Amazon Mobile LLC Racing 5 5 5 5

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 9 A Executive Summary Scoreboard - Top Games

The tables below look at the top five games apps in each category which, according to AVG’s study, have the most impact on your device.

OVERALLOVERALL HIGHESTHIGHEST HIGHESTHIGHEST HIGHESTHIGHEST

PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE DATADATA BATTERYBATTERY STORAGESTORAGE IMPACTIMPACT TRAFFICTRAFFIC DRAINDRAIN CONSUMPTIONCONSUMPTION

Clash of Clans Words With Friends Candy Crush Soda Saga Despicable Me 1 Supercell 1 Supercell 1 King 1 Gameloft

Candy Crush Saga Farm Heroes Saga Candy Crush Soda Saga Clash of Clans 2 King 2 Supercell 2 King 2 Supercell

Farm Heroes Saga Candy Crush Saga Clash of Clans My Talking Angela 3 King 3 Supercell 3 Supercell 3 Outfit7

Candy Crush Soda Saga 8 Ball Pool Farm Heroes Saga 8 Ball Pool 4 King 4 Miniclip.com 4 King 4 Miniclip.com

8 Ball Pool Candy Crush Soda Saga Don’t Tap The White Tiles My Talking Tom Miniclip.com King Clean Master Games Outfit7 Racing 5 5 5 5

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 10 B Perform a Self-Check Now How To Identify the Top 10 Apps on YOUR Phone

AVG has collected this anonymized data through its mobile AVG AntiVirus and AVG Cleaner apps. To see Apps you haven’t Top mobile data- what’s consuming all of your smartphone’s battery life, used in ages consuming apps 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):

Top battery life- Download AVG Cleaner draining apps to check your phone!

The largest apps on your phone

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 11 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Introduction

New versions of the Android™ introduce additional features that are specifically optimized for the latest devices. But at what cost?

While new Android versions can dramatically device storage and data plan – as well as improve the experience for those who own those with the overall highest ranking for the latest smartphone or tablet, the same is performance when combining all three of not true for older devices, whose users may these measurements. see the battery life and speed suffer. The key findings are separated into It’s also the case that the more apps you two parts: install, the slower your phone or tablet will • All apps excluding games get. This is not just about the space those apps take up being on your device, but also • Games only, which we felt were the fact that a lot of apps, such as Spotify, significant enough to merit a or WhatsApp, tend to be active separate category of their own even when not used and run quietly in the background. On page 25, we will look at possible ways to improve the battery drain, performance In this section, we will take a closer look draw and data usage through various steps at the full list of apps which ranked in both inside the Android OS as well the top ten for impact on battery life, as in specific apps.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 12 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 World’s Greediest Mobile Apps In this section, we discovered which apps had the most overall impact on mobile devices.

TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - RUN AT START UP Analysis

HIGHEST If your phone’s battery doesn’t last through the day, IMPACT Facebook ChatON Voice & Video Chat but you’ve barely even picked it up, a background Facebook, Inc. Samsung Electronics Ltd. 1 6 app that starts automatically might be at fault. The 10 automatically running apps you see to the left Google Play Services Facebook Pages Manager had the most overall impact on battery life, traffic Google, Inc. Facebook, Inc. 2 7 and storage. Top spot, no surprise here, is yet again, Facebook, with its background checks and BBM The Weather Channel notifications; and The Weather Channel also makes 3 BlackBerry Limited. 8 The Weather Channel it into the Top 10 again. The preinstalled ChatON app stuck out to us once more, as it’s still in the Top Instagram KakaoTalk 10, despite being discontinued and replaced by the 4 Facebook, Inc. 9 Kakao Corporation Message BETA everywhere except for the US. No two ways about it: Messenger WhatsApp Messenger if you’re not using it, get rid of it. 5 Facebook, Inc. 10WhatsApp, Inc. CATEGORY: Social Communication Business Tools Weather

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 13 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 World’s Greediest Mobile Apps Cont...

TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - RUN BY USER Analysis

HIGHEST Yet again, Snapchat takes the crown as well as IMPACT Snapchat Samsung WatchON (Video) Spotify, Line and Amazon’s Shopping apps, in the Snapchat, Inc. Samsung Media Solution Center 1 6 category of actively used apps with the heaviest resource drain. Interesting: Newcomer, Microsoft Amazon Shopping UK Netflix Outlook, seems to be responsible for a significant Amazon Mobile LLC Netflix, Inc. 2 7 amount of resource usage, which could very well be caused by users actually checking it every other Spotify Music BBC News minute or syncing it too frequently. If you’re living 3 Spotify Ltd. 8 Media Applications Technologies for the BBC inside Outlook, and feel like it’s draining your resources too fast, go to the settings menu and LINE: Free Calls & Messages Amazon Shopping (Global) turn off notifications. Also make sure that it doesn’t 4 LINE Corporation 9 Amazon Mobile LLC eat up your storage by limiting the synchronization with your email to the last 30 days. Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) Microsoft Outlook 5 Samsung Media Solution Center 10Microsoft Corporation CATEGORY: Social Music & Audio Communication Tools Entertainment Shopping Newspaper & Magazines

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 14 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Top Ten Battery Drainers

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, or social apps.

TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS – RUN AT START UP Analysis

Android Firmware HIGHEST The now long-deposed handset maker, BlackBerry, IMPACT Facebook Updater continues to live on with its iOS and Android app, Google, Inc. Facebook, Inc. 1 6 BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), even enjoying an ever-growing community. However, beware of its Beaming Service for Samsung BBM side effects, because it continues to hold a spot in Mobeam, Inc. BlackBerry Limited. 2 7 the top 10 hidden startup apps with the highest battery drain, going back to our very first Security Policy Updater WhatsApp Messenger App Report from Q3/Q4 2014. 3 SAMSUNG OTA SOFTWARE UPDATE 8 WhatsApp, Inc. Weather & Clock ChatON Voice & Video Chat Widget Android Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 4 9 Devexpert.NET

Google Play Services WeChat 5 Google, Inc. 10WeChat Tencent CATEGORY: Social Communication Productivity Tools Weather

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 15 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Top Ten Battery Drainers Cont...

TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS - RUN BY USER Analysis

HIGHEST The Christmas and winter season seem to be Samsung IMPACT WatchON (Video) Netflix getting closer, as our shopping habits ramp up, Samsung Media Solution Center Netflix, Inc. 1 6 and we’re spending more time inside reading : that’s why two Amazon Shopping apps, Snapchat LINE: Free Calls & Messages the Walmart app, and the BBC News app made Snapchat, Inc. LINE Corporation 2 7 their way into the top 10.

Amazon Shopping UK Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) 3 Amazon Mobile LLC 8 Cheetah Mobile

Microsoft Outlook Walmart 4 Microsoft Corporation 9 Walmart

BBC News Amazon Shopping (Global) 5 Media Applications Technologies for the BBC 10Amazon Mobile LLC CATEGORY: Social Entertainment Shopping Newspaper & Magazines Communication Productivity Tools

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 16 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Top Ten Storage Hogs Your favorite everyday apps could be using up more of the precious limited storage on your device than you might realize.

TOP 10 STORAGE EATERS - RUN AT START UP Analysis

HIGHEST The official app stores more than its name IMPACT Facebook Skype suggests, making you wonder why a search tool keeps Facebook, Inc. Skype, Inc. 1 6 so much data stored locally. Our advice: use AVG Cleaner for Android to fully delete the app and reinstall it if it’s Instagram consuming too much space. Living in Japan? Then watch Amazon Mobile LLC Facebook, Inc. 2 7 out for your carrier NTT Docomo’s pre-installed email app (SP-Mode Mail), which is one of most storage eating apps, Sp-Mode Mail : Free Video Calls & Text across the globe, and just slightly behind global apps, 3 NTT DOCOMO 8 Tango such as Facebook and Kindle.

Facebook Pages Manager Google 4 Facebook, Inc. 9 Google, Inc.

Google Play Services WeChat 5 Google, Inc. 10WeChat Tencent CATEGORY: Social Communication Business Tools Books & Reference

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 17 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Top Ten Storage Hogs Cont...

TOP 10 STORAGE EATERS - RUN BY USER Analysis

HIGHEST This year, both Spotify Music and IMPACT Spotify Music TripAdvisor Hotels Flights kept their number 1 and 2 spots of apps that consume Spotify Ltd. TripAdvisor, Inc. 1 6 the most space on your phone.

Chrome Amazon Shopping (Global) Why a Filters & Stickers app for LINE messenger is Google, Inc. Amazon Mobile LLC 2 7 consuming so much space, just behind a web browser (which caches a complete website offline) and Spotify Aillis - Filters & Stickers Snapchat (which could store GBs of music on your phone) is 3 LINE Corporation 8 Snapchat, Inc. beyond us: AVG App Manager, a feature of AVG Cleaner for Android can keep an eye out for Filters & LINE: Free Calls & Messages Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) Stickers storage consumption, and simply reinstall it 4 LINE Corporation 9 Cheetah Mobile if it grows out of control, which will restore its cached files. The other apps that shouldn’t Amazon Shopping UK Photo Editor by Aviary store so many files locally, are TripAdvisor 5 Amazon Mobile LLC 10Aviary, Inc. and Amazon’s shopping apps. CATEGORY: Music & Audio Shopping Communication Travel & Local Photography Tools

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 18 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Top Ten Data Traffic Hogs 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.

TOP 10 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - RUN AT START UP Analysis

HIGHEST It’s perfectly fine for Facebook, Instagram or radio IMPACT Facebook iHeartRadio - Radio & Music streaming service, iHeartRadio, to consume mobile traffic, Facebook, Inc. iHeartMedia, Inc. 1 6 but if an antivirus app or the APUS Launcher consume your data volume, it’s time to raise some eyebrows. Yahoo! JAPAN Google Play Services Yahoo! Japan Corp Google, Inc. 2 7 Our advice: Try turning off as many of their APUS Launcher - data-consuming features as possible; or find Antivirus & Security Small, Fast, Boost an alternative, if their traffic keeps exceeding Avast Software 3 8 Apus Group your mobile limit. You can also use AVG Cleaner for Android’s App Manager to check which apps The Weather Channel Groupon - Daily Deals, Coupons consume the most mobile data. 4 The Weather Channel 9 Groupon, Inc.

Instagram WeatherBug 5 Facebook, Inc. 10Earth Networks Newspaper CATEGORY: Social Shopping Tools Weather & Magazines Personalization Music & Audio

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 19 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Top Ten Data Traffic Hogs Cont...

TOP 10 DATA TRAFFIC HOGS - RUN BY USER Analysis

HIGHEST No surprise here: video streaming service, Netflix, Netflix IMPACT Samsung WatchON (Video) consumes the most mobile traffic among apps that Netflix, Inc. Samsung Media Solution Center 1 6 users actively run. What does come as a surprise, however, is that Photo Editor by Aviary is in the top Snapchat Spotify Music 10, which is likely due to its ability to share files across 2 Snapchat, Inc. 7 Spotify Ltd. all your social networks.

Tumblr Photo Editor by Aviary 3 Tumblr, Inc. 8 Aviary, Inc.

BBC News Microsoft Outlook 4 Media Applications Technologies for the BBC 9 Microsoft Corporation

Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) Tinder 5 Cheetah Mobile 10Tinder Newspaper CATEGORY: Social Music & Audio & Magazines Photography Tools Entertainment Productivity Lifestyle

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 20 C Key Findings - Q3 2015 Mobile Gaming - What Gamers Should Know 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.

TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS - GAMES Analysis

HIGHEST And King has been dethroned again: while still Clash of Clans IMPACT My Talking Angela Supercell Outfit7 holding ranks 2, 3 and 4 with its Candy Crush and 1 6 Farm Heroes Saga games, Clash of Clans is now the top performance-consuming app. Newcomer, Candy Crush Saga Don't Tap The White Tile Don’t Tap the White Tile, doesn’t display very King Clean Master Games 2 7 fancy graphics, yet continues to drain resources more than hundreds of other games do on this list. Farm Heroes Saga Despicable Me King Gameloft 3 8 Our advice: Just limit its usage, and you should be good. Candy Crush Soda Saga My Talking Tom 4 King 9 Outfit7

8 Ball pool Crossy Road 5 Miniclip.com 10Yodo1 Games CATEGORY: Strategy Casual Action Arcade

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 21 D App Usage Trends Introduction

Based on AVG’s global statistics, the following list shows the top 50 most used apps on AVG users’ Android devices.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 22 D App Usage Trends Top 50 Installed Apps

1 Google Play Store 11 21 Skype 31 Reader 41

2 YouTube 12 22 S Suggest 32 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 24 ChatON 34 Twitter 44 & Weather

5 Google Text-To-Speech 15 Messenger 25 Instagram 35 45 Samsung Billing

6 16 Samsung Push Service 26 Flipboard 36 Clean Master 46

7 Map 17 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 30 Samsung Link 40 Samsung Print Service 50 Google Keyboard

Analysis Surprise, surprise! The top 15 most-installed apps across low, given its dominance, but the rest of these users plays a big role in the mobile world, with Candy Crush all Android devices are all from Google, such as the built- either don’t use Facebook, or simply use the web version Saga installed on 15.8% of all smartphones measured. in Play Store, Hangouts, Chrome or Gmail, with one, in Google Chrome. The second app after Facebook and Funny. It seems that both Samsung and HP managed notable exception: Facebook, which is installed on 69% its FB Messenger companion is WhatsApp, which is to sneak their support apps onto 20% and of all Android devices, worldwide. That’s Surprisingly installed on 51% of all Android users devices. Gaming 13%,respectively, of all users’ smartphones.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 23 E Addressing the Issues Insights into Android Device and App Optimization 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.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 24 E Addressing the Issues We’ve put together a comprehensive guide 7 Ways to Boost Battery Life, Free Up for all consumers and Storage and Reduce Mobile Data Traffic businesses looking to address the issues outlined in this report. Here are 7 easy steps to help you boost battery life, Click here to download stop storage eaters and save mobile traffic. the full PDF guide.

Limit notifications to save battery Free up space: Turn down brightness: life, performance and mobile data: Apps collect clutter over time. Use AVG Cleaner Phone notifications are one of the most useful If you’re not in bright sunlight, we recommend turning for Android to get rid of temporary files. mobile inventions, giving users information the brightness levels down to 50-70%. they need to know about new appointments Why? On many of today’s big phones and tablets, Reduce data traffic: or messages at a glance. But not all of them the display is responsible for up to 80% of the are useful, and they can consume resources. entire power consumption. Turn off background data transfers or any offline reading features within your app if you don’t want Limit apps battery & performance drain: Get rid of performance-sapping apps: it to consume mobile traffic. Reduce background features, refresh intervals, Our AVG Cleaner for Android analyzes the top location usage or in-app notifications. Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS: battery, storage, and traffic-hogging apps on your device. If you don’t need one of these apps,

To save more battery life, turn off all the hardware you can easily uninstall it and look for more resource- features you don’t need at any given moment. friendly alternatives.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 25 E Contact Information For further information, please visit:

Our blogs, press information and resources Contact: on how to get the most out of your connected Tony Anscombe - Senior Security Evangelist devices at AVG Now: http://now.avg.com [email protected]

Our website for details about our performance Sandro Villinger - Performance PR products: http://www.avg.com/performance [email protected]

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 26 F Appendix App Resource Consumption Analysis

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.

AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 27 F Appendix USA

TOP 10 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS – EXCLUDING GAMES TOP 6 PERFORMANCE DRAINING APPS – GAMES ONLY

HIGHEST HIGHEST Facebook IMPACT ChatON Voice & Video Chat Clash of Clans IMPACT Candy Crush Soda Saga 1 Facebook, Inc. 6 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 1 Supercell 4 King

Snapchat Netflix Words With Friends Subway Surf 2 Snapchat, Inc. 7 Netflix, Inc. 2 Zynga 5 Kiloo

Google Play Services Samsung WatchON (Video) Candy Crush Saga Hill Climb Racing 3 Google, Inc. 8 Samsung Media Solution Center 3 King 6 Fingersoft

Instagram Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) CATEGORY: Arcade Strategy Casual Word Racing 4 Facebook, Inc. 9 Cheetah Mobile * Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria Spotify Music Messenger 5 Spotify Ltd. 10Facebook, Inc. CATEGORY: Social Music & Audio Communication Entertainment Tools

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AndroidTM App Performance & Trends Report by AVG Technologies Q3 2015 << Contents 28 F Appendix USA

TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS – RUN AT START UP TOP 10 BATTERY DRAINERS - RUN BY USER

Android HIGHEST HIGHEST IMPACT Samsung Firmware Updater Facebook WatchON (Video) IMPACT Walmart 1 Google, Inc. 6 Facebook, Inc. 1 Samsung Media Solution Center 6 Walmart

Security Policy Updates WhatsApp Messenger Snapchat Amazon Shopping (Global) 2 SAMSUNG OTA SOFTWARE UPDATE 7 WhatsApp, Inc. 2 Snapchat, Inc. 7 Amazon Mobile LLC

Beaming Service for Samsung Straight Talk My account Netflix LINE: Free Calls & Messages 3 Mobeam, Inc. 8 Straight Talk Communications 3 Netflix, Inc. 8 LINE Corporation

ChatON Voice & Video Chat Security & Antivirus | Lookout Super-Bright LED Torch Spotify Music 4 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 9 Lookout Mobile Security 4 Surpax, Inc. 9 Spotify Ltd.

Google Play Services Kik Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) Twitter 5 Google, Inc. 10Kik Interactive 5 Cheetah Mobile 10Twitter, Inc. CATEGORY: Communication Productivity Tools Social CATEGORY: Communication Productivity Shopping Social Entertainment Tools

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HIGHEST HIGHEST Candy Crush Soda Saga IMPACT Words With Friends Facebook IMPACT Vine 1 King 4 Zynga 1 Facebook, Inc. 6 Vine Labs

Candy Crush Saga Hill Climbing Racing Spotify Music Skype 2 King 5 Fingersoft 2 Spotify Ltd. 7 Skype, Inc.

Clash of Clans Subway Surf Chrome Google Play Services 3 Supercell 6 Kiloo 3 Google, Inc. 8 Google, Inc.

CATEGORY: Strategy Casual Racing Word Arcade Amazon Kindle Google 4 Amazon Mobile LLC 9 Google, Inc. * Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria Instagram YouTube Facebook, Inc. Google, Inc. Racing 5 10 CATEGORY: Communication Social Entertainment Books & Reference Tools Music & Audio Media & Video

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HIGHEST HIGHEST Clash of Clans IMPACT Candy Crush Saga Netflix IMPACT Beaming Service for Samsung 1 supercell 4 King 1 Netflix, Inc. 6 Mobeam, Inc.

Subway Surf Hill Climb Racing Snapchat Google Play Services 2 Kiloo 5 Fingersoft 2 Snapchat, Inc. 7 Google, Inc.

Words With Friends Candy Crush Soda Saga Facebook iHeartRadio - Radio & Music 3 Zynga 6 King 3 Facebook, Inc. 8 iHeartMedia, Inc. CATEGORY: Strategy Casual Arcade Word Racing Instagram Spotify Music 4 Instagram, Inc. 9 Spotify ltd. * Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria The Weather Channel Security Policy Updates 5 The Weather Channel 10SAMSUNG OTA SOFTWARE UPDATE CATEGORY: Productivity Music & Audio Social Entertainment Weather Tools

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HIGHEST Words With Friends IMPACT Candy Crush Soda Saga 1 Zynga 4 King

Clash of Clans Subway Surf 2 Supercell 5 Kiloo

Candy Crush Saga Hill Climb Racing 3 King 6 Fingersoft CATEGORY: Word Casual Strategy Arcade Racing

* Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria

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HIGHEST HIGHEST Facebook IMPACT Spotify Music Candy Crush Saga IMPACT Candy Crush Soda Saga 1 Facebook, Inc. 6 Spotify Ltd. 1 King 2 King CATEGORY: Casual Google Play Services Messenger 2 Google, Inc. 7 Facebook, Inc.

Instagram Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) * Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria 3 Facebook, Inc. 8 Cheetah Mobile

Snapchat Twitter 4 Snapchat Inc. 9 Twitter, inc.

Amazon Shopping UK Viber 5 Amazon Mobile LLC 10Viber Media S.à r.l. CATEGORY: Social Music & Audio Communication Tools Shopping

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Android HIGHEST HIGHEST IMPACT IMPACT Firmware Updater WhatsApp Messenger Snapchat Spotify Music 1 Google, Inc. 6 WhatsApp, Inc. 1 Snapchat, Inc. 6 Spotify Ltd.

Facebook Instagram Amazon Shopping UK Amazon Shopping (Global) 2 Facebook, Inc. 7 Facebook,Inc. 2 Amazon Mobile LLC 7 Amazon Mobile LLC

Google Play Services Microsoft Outlook BBC News Google+ 3 Google, Inc. 8 Microsoft Corporation 3 Media Applications Technologies for the BBC 8 Google, Inc.

Messenger Groupon - Daily Deals, Coupons Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) BT Wi-Fi 4 Facebook, Inc. 9 Groupon, Inc. 4 Cheetah Mobile 9 BT Group PLC

AVG Cleaner & Battery Saver Adobe AIR Twitter Adobe Reader 5 AVG Mobile 10Adobe 5 Twitter, Inc. 10Adobe CATEGORY: Social Communication Tools Productivity Shopping CATEGORY: Social Tools Entertainment Newspaper & Magazines Music & Audio Productivity Shopping

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HIGHEST HIGHEST Candy Crush Saga IMPACT Candy Crush Soda Saga Facebook IMPACT Skype 1 King 2 King 1 Facebook, Inc. 6 Skype, Inc.

CATEGORY: Casual Spotify Music Google Play Services 2 Spotify Ltd. 7 Google, Inc.

* Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria Chrome TripAdvisor 3 Google, Inc. 8 TripAdvisor, Inc.

Amazon Kindle Amazon Shopping UK 4 Amazon Mobile LLC 9 Amazon Mobile LLC

Instagram Google 5 Facebook, Inc. 10Google, Inc. CATEGORY: Social Music & Audio Communication Travel & Local Books & Reference Shopping Tools

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HIGHEST HIGHEST Candy Crush Saga IMPACT Candy Crush Soda Saga Snapchat IMPACT Groupon - Daily Deals, Coupons 1 King 2 King 1 Snapchat, Inc. 6 Groupon, Inc. CATEGORY: Casual Facebook Yahoo! Mail 2 Facebook, Inc. 7 Yahoo Corp. * Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria Instagram Messenger 3 Facebook, Inc. 8 Facebook, Inc.

BBC News Microsoft Outlook 4 Media Applications Technologies for the BBC 9 Microsoft Corporation

Google Play Services Clean Master (Boost & AppLock) 5 Google, Inc. 10Cheetah Mobile CATEGORY: Social Newspaper & Magazines Communication Entertainment Shopping Tools

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HIGHEST Candy Crush Saga IMPACT Candy Crush Soda Saga 1 King 2 King

CATEGORY: Casual

* Not enough games met the threshold of 1 million downloads and thus did not meet our criteria

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HIGHEST Android HIGHEST Facebook IMPACT CommBank IMPACT WhatsApp Messenger Facebook, Inc. Commonwealth Bank of Australia Firmware Updater 1 6 1 Google, Inc. 6 WhatsApp, Inc.

Google Play Services Viber Security Policy Update Instagram 2 Google, Inc. 7 Viber Media S.à r.l. 2 Samsung OTA Software Update 7 Facebook, Inc.

Instagram Google Search Google Play Services AntiVirus FREE 3 Facebook, Inc. 8 Google, Inc. 3 Google, Inc. 8 AVG Mobile

Messenger AntiVirus FREE Facebook Skype 4 Facebook, Inc. 9 AVG Mobile 4 Facebook, Inc. 9 Microsoft Corporation Android Skype Firmware Updater Messenger CommBank 5 Microsoft Corporation 10Google, Inc. 5 Facebook, Inc. 10Commonwealth Bank of Australia CATEGORY: Social Communication Productivity Tools Finance CATEGORY: Social Communication Productivity Tools Finance

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HIGHEST HIGHEST Google Text-To-Speech IMPACT Facebook IMPACT Google 1 Google, Inc. 6 Google, Inc. 1 Facebook, Inc. 6 Google, Inc.

Google+ Chrome Instagram TripAdvisor 2 Google, Inc. 7 Google, Inc. 2 Facebook, Inc. 7 TripAdvisor, Inc.

Google Play Music Chrome CommBank 3 Google, Inc. 8 Google, Inc. 3 Google, Inc. 8 Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Flipboard Google Play Books Skype YouTube 4 Flipboard 9 Google, Inc. 4 Microsoft Corporation 9 Google, Inc.

TripAdvisor AntiVirus FREE Google Play Services Viber TripAdvisor, Inc. 5 10AVG Mobile 5 Google, Inc. 10Viber Media S.à r.l. CATEGORY: Social Communication Travel & Local Music Newspaper Books & Productivity Tools & Audio & Magazines Reference CATEGORY: Social Communication Travel & Local Tools Media & Video Finance

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HIGHEST Facebook IMPACT CommBank 1 Facebook, Inc. 6 Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Instagram Skype 2 Facebook, Inc. 7 Microsoft Corporation

Google Play Services AntiVirus FREE 3 Google, Inc. 8 AVG Mobile

Messenger Google 4 Facebook, Inc. 9 Google, Inc.

Security Policy Update Viber 5 Samsung OTA Software Update 10Viber Media S.à r.l. CATEGORY: Social Communication Tools Productivity Finance

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