Cheetah Mobile, the leading mobile utility provider have announced findings on top apps across different categories that generate the most data on Android phones. The findings were based on the company’s flagship application, Clean Master, data gathering from India where Cheetah Mobile is ranked the second largest application developer [behind Facebook]. Popular applications including Flipkart, PicsArt, Facebook and UC Browser have been identified for creating the maximum junk files in their respective categories.
In India in 2015, Clean Master had an install base of roughly 20 million devices, with the highest number of downloads in Android 4.4. It was used 81,000,000 times to clean a total of 128PB junk files.
The above chart demonstrates the percentage of different Android versions which have been loaded with Clean Master. As can be seen, Android 4.4 accounts for 46%, which is about half of the total number. Android 5.0 and 5.1 rank the second and third. While Android 6.0 only makes up 2%.
- The overall number of times cleaned in India 2015 – 81,000,000
- The total size of junk files being cleaned – 128 PB
- Daily cleaning times – 2,000,000 times
- Daily cleaning size – 300,000 GB
As depicted in the chart below, videos, photography and tools are the top three app categories that created the most data.
Top app categories generating the most data
The data by Clean Master indicates tools, social apps and video apps as the top three categories that have been cleaned most times.
Top categories that create the most junk files
Top app categories by number of times cleaned
Tools, social apps and video apps are the three categories that have been cleaned for most times.
Top apps generating the most data files in every category:
Videos [pre-installed video apps excluded]
The top two video apps generating the most data are TubeMate and MX Player, both of which are mainly used to download videos.
Photography [pre-installed photo apps excluded]
PicsArt and BeautyPlus are the top two photography apps which generating the most data.
Tools [pre-installed tool apps excluded]
Among the top 10 tool apps generating the most data files, there are three file transferring tools, two security apps, and two app lockers. Most of the junks created by transferring tools are installation packages.
Social apps [pre-installed social apps excluded]
Facebook generates the most among all social apps, and the main data it creates are system caches, which also applies to Instagram and WhatsApp.
Browsers [pre-installed browsers excluded]
The UC Browser family generates the most data here on user devices.
Games
Clash of Clans generates the most data among all mobile games, followed by Pirate Kings. Most data created by the games exist in system storage.
Shopping apps
Flipkart and Paytm generate the most data among all shopping apps. And the former creates about
three times more data than the latter.
[The above data is based on Clean Master’s data gathering and applies only to India]