Google Maps Top App in UK, Yahoo Weather Number Two

According to comScore data, commissioned by the mobile trade association GSMA, Google Maps is the top app in the UK market by almost 2:1. That's followed not by Facebook (as one might expect) but by Yahoo Weather. Facebook is number three and Google has two more apps in the top 10. 

Here's the full list, as reported in the UK's Daily Telegraph:

  1. Google Maps: 6,419,503 (users)
  2. Yahoo! Weather: 3,567,047
  3. Facebook: 3,456,442
  4. Google Mobile: 2,554,329
  5. YouTube: 2,438,348
  6. eBay: 1,195,496
  7. Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre: 1,004,085
  8. Yahoo! Stocks: 959,289
  9. WhatsApp Messenger: 798,656
  10. Sky News: 732,374

The research found, suprirsingly, that 40% of UK smartphone owners used apps in April 2011. This figure seems low to me. 

The iPhone-Android competitive breakdown was basically two-thirds iPhone, one-third Android according to the report.