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™ smartphones 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 Google Play. We also did downloads, temp files 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 tables 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 Microsoft on Google 3 It’s (Still) a Samsung World KakaoTalk & WhatsApp on the Staying relevant in the smartphone In our Q2 report, the Samsung Rise Facebook, Instagram and the business has Microsoft porting many dominance in the Android market Google Play 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, Snapchat 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 Facebook Messenger. 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 pixel 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