Different Types of Mobile Apps – Industries and Functionalities
October 10, 2018
In the New Era, there are 4.57 billion mobile users in 2018 in the world and the statistics changes as the times and year change the web users gone down and mobile users increasing day-by-day. so as the business point of view as the users increasing day-by-day the mobile apps are also developing and every business needs their apps with websites along with categories.
There are some Mobile apps categories with their industries and functionalities are defined below:
1. Lifestyle Mobile Apps
Lifestyle apps have come back in recent years. Lifestyle app is one that accelerates or supports the individual aspects that outline your lifestyle. By this I mean those sorts of mobile apps connected Fitness, Dating, Food, Music, Travel etc.
Some examples of Lifestyle apps are:
Spotify
Tripadvisor
Uber
2. Social Media Mobile Apps.
Social media apps are the most popular types of mobile apps available in the market. We build our social networks, and most of us check in with them every day. Facebook, twitters and Instagram report over 1 billion active daily users.
Social sharing apps provide a feature to build your business if you will be providing a service or selling a product that your users can share with their networks. This functionality will keep your users coming back to share again and again while comparing with their networks.
Some common social media apps are:
Snapchat
3. Utility Mobile Apps
Utilities are the types of mobile apps that we may use most often without thinking about them as apps. Many of them come pre-installed on your device and serve a single function.
Some examples of common types of mobile apps in the utility category are:
Reminders
Calculator
Flashlight
Weather
4. Games/Entertainment Mobile Apps
Gaming and entertainment category are huge and as such very competitive because in today’s life everyone using it. Games are one of the more obvious mobile app categories and need little explanation. These types of apps are popular among developers because they bring users back multiple times each week, sometimes multiple times per day.
In the most successful games, both the frequency and length of play is high. Work to make your game as “addictive” as possible by offering incentives to users who come back every day or a certain number of days in a row.
Some examples of game apps are:
Angry Birds
Clash of Clans
Subway Surfer
5. Productivity Mobile Apps
While productivity may sound like one of the more boring types of mobile apps, it’s an incredibly popular category. These types of apps help their users accomplish a task quickly and efficiently, making what are sometimes mundane tasks easier and, dare I say, fun?
Examples of productivity apps are like:
Docs
Sheets
Wallet/Pay
These types of apps are indispensable when they’re done right. That means helping your user accomplish a task more easily, quickly, and efficiently than your competitors. Convenient features that allow them to get from point A to point done are what set this type of mobile apps apart, so get creative and come up with a way to do things that nobody else is doing.
6. News/Information Outlet Mobile Apps
News, Media and information apps are pretty straightforward. They supply their users with the news and information they’re looking for in an easy to understand layout that efficiently navigates them to the things they care about most.
Examples of different types of popular news apps are:
Buzzfeed
Smart news
Google News & Weather
Feedly
Yahoo News Digest
Linkedin Pulse
These are the biggest names in news, and they all deliver something different. If you’re developing a news app, you’ll need to find a unique way to communicate with your users, because, let’s face it, the news will all be the same…it’s news.
These are the categories and industries of different types of mobile apps daily users used in their Lifes.
