Average number of apps on smartphones in China Q1 2021-Q4 2024

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Jul 7, 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, Chinese consumers had an average of

apps installed on their smartphones. Apart from instant messengers, short video and online video apps were other popular app categories, accounting for about a

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of the total app usage time.

Average number of apps installed by mobile users in China from 1st quarter 2021 to 4th quarter 2024

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February 2025

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China

Survey time period

Q1 2021 to Q4 2024

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the figures were based on the data collected by the MoonFox iApp database. The source has not released the figure for Q3 2024.

Figures for earlier quarters have been taken from previous publications.

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