AppRaisin is one of the most popular community-based apps that focuses on what is trending in the world of Windows 10 software. The community of users submit app updates and people can vote on them based on popularity. The more votes, the greater the interest from the users.
The people behind AppRaisin have shared with us the Top 500* Windows 10 apps and games for 2016 (so far) ranked by the community.
Today, we're taking a look at which apps received the most interest overall via the "max score" on AppRaisin. The list is likely not too surprising, but it does reflect what the more active Windows users for Mobile and PC are interested in talking about and sharing.
Ranking at #1 is VLC the popular video player that can handle nearly every format out there. In the #2 spot is Facebook, which considering how popular that app is and its frequency of updates follows the expected trend. Other apps and games like Messenger, Subway Surfers, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter and Steam Authenticator round out the rest. We'd also be remiss if we didn't point out that the Windows Central App ranks at a healthy #11 spot for max score.
Here are the Top 50 (of 500) max-ranked apps by the AppRaisin community:
Top 50 Apps by Max User Score
- VLC
- Facebook (Beta)
- AppRaisin
- Steam
- Messenger
- Subway Surfers
- Messenger (Beta)
- Windows Central
- Spotify
- CCPlayer Pro
- Store
- Opera Mini
- Viber
- Upgrade Advisor
- Windows Camera
- OneDrive
- Adblock Plus
- Feedback Hub
- Windows Maps
- TuneIn Radio
- MSN Weather
- 6tag
- LINE
- 8 Zip
- Gestures & Touch
- WinZip Universal
- AdBlock
- Microsoft People
- Microsoft Phone
- Windows Insider
- Groove Music
- myTube Beta
- Microsoft Photos
- Forza Motorsport 6: Apex (Beta)
- Valiant Hearts: The Great War
- myTube!
- Get Skype
- Deezer Music Preview
- Dropbox
- Vine
- AutoCAD 360
- Perfect Tools
- Photo Editor Polarr
- Microsoft Build
- Mail and Calendar
- inKin
Interestingly, Microsoft's own apps do not show up until #15 with the Store itself. Mail & Calendar is even further down at #49.
Of course, there are other ways to look at things. VLC has the highest max score, but it only had one post on AppRaisin, so all interest was on that single release. Alternatively, WhatsApp had 21 entries,Windows Camera had 27, and Microsoft's Mail & Calendar had a staggering 47 entries on AppRaisin, which watered down their average scores.
Here are the top 25 apps on AppRaisin when sorted by average score (instead of max). A higher average community score, the higher the rank.
Top 25 Apps by Average User Score
- VLC
- Steam
- AppRaisin
- Messenger (Beta)
- Messenger
- AdBlock
- Opera Mini
- Valiant Hearts: The Great War
- Feedback Hub
- Spotify
- inKin
- Adblock Plus
- Gestures & Touch
- Store
- Bank of America
- Facebook (Beta)
- Autodesk® SketchBook®
- Viber
- Windows Central
- Store Purchase App
Preferences for core users of Windows 10 and Mobile do not necessarily reflect average users, but at least in this case most of the apps and games likely due correlate. If you look back at coverage of these apps on Windows Central, we probably can see a further correlation between interest and number of comments. Posting any news about WhatsApp or Facebook, for instance, tends to result in dozens if not hundreds of comments even when there is no real news for us to report.
We're sure if Snapchat, Prisma, and a certain popular game right now were available they would also be top ranked. Are they any apps that did not make the list that surprise you? Let us know!
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*Due to space considerations we are only presenting the Top 50 instead of the full 500.
