chennai with indians on covid19s stayathome mode for most of 2020 time spent on smartphones surged by almost 39 in the year with most spending 46 hours a day up from average 33 hours a day in 2019app downloads in india grew by almost 30 yearonyear to 2427 billion downloads in 2020 by app store consumer spend india ranked 25th but saw 35 yoy growth in consumer spend through inapp purchases and subscriptions to 500 million appannies annual state of mobile report released on wednesday showed india continues to hold its place as the secondlargest market worldwide for app downloads after chinaif we assume the average user spends eight hours sleeping that is equal to nearly 30 of all waking time spent on mobile games were the most downloaded and represented two out of every five downloads lexi sydow senior insights manager app annie told toi 2020 also saw facebookowned apps dominate monthly active users rankings in india as the nowcontentious whatsapp and facebook emerged as top two apps in india on the basis of usage at an average 213 hours per month per user time spent on whatsapp grew 25 from 2019 time spent on facebook grew 15 yoy and instagram recorded a 10 growth in usage in 2020with india banning the use of short videos app tiktok in june the app was pushed down to the fifth among social apps compared to last year when it recorded the highest yoy growth of 240 ludo king and pubg mobile were the top games apps recording maximum most monthly active usersfinance apps found special preference among indians in 2020 as time spent by users on the top five investments and trading apps grew 75 yearonyear in india outpacing global growth of 55at over 177 billion hours video streaming another key category saw a 40 growth in time spent youtube and mx player among the mostused apps recording 25 and 20 yearonyear growth respectively with people preferring to eat homecooked food during covid19 the food and drink apps category saw a 35 decline in usage while use of food delivery apps often peaked near the beginning of the pandemic in most markets india had an initial decline due to logistical impacts before rising again in the summer appannie said interestingly bevq keralas liquor sale virtual queue management app was the app with highest yoy growth in sessions followed by dominos pizza and fresh to home with people confined to their homes education apps 170 business apps 120 health and fitness 80 were among categories that experienced highest yearonyear growth in downloads in india