What took off on Android, 12 – 18 Oct 2026
The week's Android apps in one page: the fastest risers and what happened alongside them, the biggest rank climbs, breakouts, launches, the biggest delistings, newly featured listings, the hottest categories and rising themes.
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Top risers
Trending: the fastest growth this week, as a percentage of users, installs or ratings - so smaller listings taking off lead, not the giants.
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Viral Streamer: Idle Clicker +573% · v1.1.8 on 9 Oct +307k installs
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Emoji Battery: DIY Status Bar +461% +211k installs
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Flashlight Max +338% · competitor Flashlight : Flash Alert & LED delisted 16 Oct +140k installs
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Muse from Meta +317% · v11.0.0.18.164 on 12 Oct +2.1M installs
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AI Chat App- Chatbot Assistant +310% · competitor Gen AI Assistant & Chatbot delisted 18 Oct +329k installs
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Breakouts
Listings launched in the last 60 days that are already big.
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Adobe Premiere: Video Editor launched 21 Sep 3.9M installs
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Grok Bot launched 1 Sep 2.4M installs
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Astro AI: Tarot & Horoscope launched 3 Sep 2.3M installs
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Micmic Fun: Voice Challenge launched 15 Sep 1.7M installs
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Notable launches
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Slow Mo Smash: Time Strike launched 13 Oct 94k installs
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Zoopiter주피터–강아지돌봄·공유가정호텔Petbnb launched 12 Oct 66k installs
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Little Kitty, Big City launched 15 Oct 56k installs
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Remote for Smart Android TV launched 12 Oct 37k installs
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Arrow Escape: Zen Logic launched 14 Oct 36k installs
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Biggest delistings
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Galaxy Widget left 14 Oct 506M installs
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DroidCam Webcam (Classic) left 16 Oct 28M installs
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Beat Jumper: EDM up left 14 Oct 28M installs
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(Old) BSNL Selfcare left 16 Oct 27M installs
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Rich Hero Go left 13 Oct 25M installs
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Hottest categories
- Casino of 1,548 listings · typical gain +6.5% 32% growing
- Video Players & Editors of 2,518 listings · typical gain +4.0% 30% growing
- Comics of 356 listings · typical gain +5.2% 29% growing
- Tools of 35,542 listings · typical gain +2.9% 29% growing
- Dating of 1,526 listings · typical gain +3.3% 29% growing
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Rising themes
Top risers are ranked by this week's growth as a percentage: in ratings on Chrome, Edge and Apple, installs on Android and daily users on Firefox. A riser grew at least 5%, from a real size, and listings whose numbers don't add up are left out. The grey line under a riser is something else that happened to it in the last two weeks, like a new version or a competitor leaving - not necessarily the reason it rose. This week's edition updates after every crawl and closes on Monday (00:00 UTC). Weeks before editions began were pieced together from our history, so some sections are missing for them. How the data is collected →