All that talkin'

Ariel Ariel
9/25/20

This is a single insight from This Week in Apps #28 - Widgets Are on Fire, Pinterest and Discord, Too!. Check out the full article for more insights.


Discord, a chat app favors by gamers, is having a fantastic 2020. Downloads skyrocketed during the lockdown by a factor of 3, and last week broke Discord's record for weekly downloads.

Discord downloads in the App Store and on Google Play

Discord was downloaded a whopping 4.9M downloads last week across the App Store and Google Play according to our app intelligence, which is 3.8x more then January of this year and nearly 8x more than January of 2018.

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