Best Smartphone Apps of 2013

Snapchat, Vine, and Candy Crush Saga earned popular spots on Smartphone this year, making them around the most downloaded applications of the year.  There are more than a million applications on Apple Inc's App Store and Google Inc's Play store, the two overwhelming commercial centers for applications, which see billions of downloads every year.  In the not so distant future, the most downloaded apps were new takes on gaming, communication and entertainment, according to mobile app experts respectively. "2013 was a really interesting year in terms of maturation, milestones and new trends," said Craig Palli, chief strategy officer at Fiksu, a mobile marketing company based in Boston. "The most downloaded apps were in familiar categories, but offered new twists," he added. "Snapchat went from being a niche app to achieving much more critical mass, so much so that Facebook was reportedly willing to spend billions of dollars to acquire the company," said Palli. With Snapchat, clients can send photographs and motion pictures that vanish not long after they are seen.  Meanwhile, launched in 2011, the application's client base kept on developing quickly in 2013, with in excess of 13 million individuals utilizing the application within October, as per the lastest accessible evaluations from worldwide data and estimation organization Nielsen. In December alone, in excess of 400 million bits of substance were imparted through the application, as per Snapchat, situated in Venice, CA.  Vine, a motion picture offering application discharged not long ago by microblogging organization Twitter Inc, was the fourth most downloaded free application in 2013.  Nielsen appraises in excess of 6 million individuals in the US were utilizing the application within October of in the not so distant future.  "The communications category underwent phenomenal growth this year. Messaging apps like Snapchat, Line, Kakao (KakaoTalk) and WeChat are all exploding and becoming bigger than the carriers in their home countries in terms of users," said Simon Khalaf, chief executive of San Francisco-based company Flurry. Crushing Saga Ultimately, Candy Crush Saga becomes the most popular game for iPhone, Android and Kindle Fire securing its place as the apex downloaded free app, and as the crest revenue grossing app. It has been downloaded in excess of 500 million times since its start a year ago, consistent with its inventor King, situated in the UK. Nielsen evaluates that in excess of 20 million individuals in the US were playing the diversion in October of this year. "Clearly the device has swallowed radio," said Palli. "Despite the new entrants, Pandora remains the dominant player in the space," he added. The Fitbit application, for iphone and Android, sets with an electronic wristband to track measurements, for example, steps taken, separation voyaged, and calories smoldered. It was the sixteenth most downloaded application on Dec. 25, consistent with Palli, who checked the Apple rankings.  Different applications that match with units, for example, Chromecast, UP by Jawbone, and Gopro were likewise around the top downloads that day. Khalaf predicts that applications for Tvs will be the pattern to look for 2014. "I think 2014 could be the year the TV industry gets disrupted by mobile," said Khalaf. "If you think about it, every American spends $100+ dollars per month on a service that is not personalized and not mobile. It's an area that's ripe for disruption and I think someone will come up with new content, maybe a new device and more importantly a better business model."