Top 5 Utilities Apps on iOS in the US - Q1 2021 Performance Insights

The first quarter of 2021 has been an eventful period for utilities apps on the iOS platform in the United States. Sensor Tower has provided an in-depth look into how these applications have performed in terms of downloads and weekly active users. Here's what the data tells us about the top five utilities apps.

Google started the quarter with approximately 500 thousand downloads and ended with around 400 thousand, indicating a slight downward trend. Its weekly active users, however, remained strong, with numbers hovering around 9 million throughout the quarter.

Google Chrome experienced fluctuations in downloads, starting the quarter with nearly 400 thousand and peaking at over 400 thousand before closing the quarter with about 300 thousand downloads. Active users remained relatively steady, starting at approximately 11 million and ending the quarter with a slight increase.

Fonts from Fonts ApS showed consistent revenue, starting at around 40 thousand and peaking at over 50 thousand in the latter weeks of the quarter. Downloads for Fonts began with over 150 thousand and saw a decrease to around 100 thousand by the end of the quarter. Weekly active users started off strong at over 500 thousand but saw a decline, ending the quarter with around 450 thousand.

DuckDuckGo Private Browser had a remarkable spike in downloads early in the quarter, jumping from around 80 thousand to over 300 thousand, before gradually declining to under 50 thousand by the end of March. Active users showed a consistent upward trend, starting at 1.5 million and climbing to nearly 2 million.

Lastly, Microsoft Edge: AI Browser saw its downloads start at over 100 thousand, with a peak at nearly 150 thousand, and then a gradual decline to just over 60 thousand by the quarter's end. Weekly active users for Microsoft Edge were quite robust, starting at around 2.8 million and reaching a high of nearly 3 million before ending slightly lower at the close of the quarter.

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