This is a list of the top Android Apps that have amassed more than 50,000,000 downloads on the official Google Play store.

App Install Base: 500 million to 1 billion

1. Gmail
2. YouTube
3. Google Play services
4. Maps
5. Facebook

App Install Base: 100 million - 500 million

1. GO Launcher EX
2. Twitter
3. Viber
4. Facebook Messenger
5. Voice Search
6. Google Play Books
7. Subway Surfers
8. Google Play Music
9. Tiny Flashlight + LED
10. Pandora
11. WhatsApp Messenger
12. Skype
13. Fruit Ninja Free
14. Dropbox
15. Adobe Reader
16. Angry Birds
17. Talking Tom Cat 2 Free
18. Street View on Google Maps
19. Google+
20. Hangouts (replaces Talk)
21. Google Search
22. Chrome Browser
23. Google Play Movies & TV
24. LINE: Free Calls & Messages

App Install Base: 50 million - 100 million

1. GO SMS Pro
2. KakaoTalk: Free Calls & Text
3. Google Translate
4. Temple Run
5. SoundHound
6. Tango Video, Voice & Text
7. Yahoo! Mail
8. Brightest Flashlight Free ®
9. Advanced Task Killer
10. GO Locker
11. Pou
12. Angry Birds Rio
13. Hill Climb Racing
14. Barcode Scanner
15. WeChat
16. TuneIn Radio
17. MX Player
18. PicsArt
19. Shoot Bubble Deluxe
20. Despicable Me
21. Talking Tom Cat Free
22. GROUP PLAY
23. Shazam
24. ChatON
25. Kindle
26. ZEDGE.
27. Jetpack Joyride
28. Google Play Magazines
29. AntiVirus Security
30. Pool Billiards Pro
31. Opera Mini web browser
32. Google Earth
33. Flipboard: Your News Magazine
34. Angry Birds Space
35. Angry Birds Seasons
36. Angry Birds Star Wars

Quick highlights:

• Facebook is only non-Google app in the Google Play Store that has been downloaded more than 500 million times. The others are Gmail, YouTube, Google Play and Google Maps that are mostly pre-installed on Android phones.
• The 50m+ list has 65 apps but the one app that enjoys the highest average user rating is Brightest Flashlight, a free app that turns your Android phone into a torch.
• Facebook has been rated by over 8 million users while 4 million Android users have added their ratings for WhatsApps Messenger on the Play Store. No other app comes close.

-- 2013-09-02

Not sure if it's fair to list the top 5 "App Install Base: 500 million to 1 billion" as these come pre-installed.

I just downloaded <Vivino>. (free)

You can scan Winelabels, and they will give you all kinds of information.

Wow with a list like that i better start downloading something haha

What web browser does everybody use? I've been using Dolphin for the past few years and it works great.

Other apps I use often : Amazon, BangkokPost, ES File Explorer, Glympse, Thailand Radio, Wifi Analyzer (to configure my router in relation to my neighbors), and uTorrent

What web browser does everybody use?  I've been using Dolphin for the past few years and it works great.

 

I'm using Dolphin too. I started off using Firefox, but it was problematic in several ways. Dolphin has been fine. The only caveat is common to all tablet browsers, AFAIK, and that's the annoyingly convoluted ways you have to use to import bookmarks.

There's a Dolphin Mini but I use Next Browser most of the time now, or Opera Mini to get round filters.

Why do I want to clog my tab up with 'apps' just to access sites I usually find work better from a browser? The only ones that don't work are ironically Google, Gmail, Gmaps etc.

Durn, the ThaiVisa app is not on the list....I bet it just missed the cutoff for the 50-100M installed list...it would have probably been number 37.

Not surprisingly Gmail is on the top, how else can you can access to Goggle play store??

I prefer Opera Mini as browser but I hardly browse on my phone unless I am overseas, don't need it in Thailand, got a desktop pc.

My personal can't live without apps include....

evernote

pocket

can scanner

DocuSign Ink

Drop box/Drive