Q4 2020 Performance of Top Carpooling and Ridesharing Android Apps in the US

As the year 2020 wrapped up, the carpooling and ridesharing app market on the Android platform saw some interesting trends in the United States. Data from Sensor Tower provides a snapshot of how the top applications in this category performed in the last quarter.

Uber - Request a ride saw its downloads fluctuate, starting the quarter with around 76K downloads and peaking at 88K by the year's end. Weekly active users showed a more pronounced upward trend, increasing from 2.5M in late September to nearly 3M by the close of December.

Lyft, another major player, experienced a similar pattern in downloads, beginning with 73K and surging to 94K in the final week of December. Active user counts for Lyft started at 1.5M and, after a dip in early December, rose back up to 1.4M by the end of the quarter.

The app for Uber - Driver: Drive & Deliver showed a slight decline in downloads, from 26K in the last week of September to around 23K at the end of December. However, weekly active users presented a different picture, peaking at 550K in mid-November before settling at 483K towards the end of the year.

For Lyft Driver, downloads began at 10K and saw a modest increase to nearly 10K by the year's end. The app's active users remained relatively stable throughout the quarter, hovering around the 215K mark.

Lastly, Bolt: Request a Ride started the quarter with just over 3K downloads and saw a significant jump to 11K in the third week of December, followed by a slight decrease to 8.7K. The active users for Bolt showed steady growth, starting at 4.2K and reaching nearly 12K by the last week of December.

For more in-depth insights, Sensor Tower's platform offers a comprehensive look at the app economy.