How Many Apps Do You Actually Use?

David Scacco
2 min readNov 19, 2017

How many of the apps on your phone do you actually use? For me I would’ve guessed about 10. A recent report found that US smartphone owners have an average of 92 apps installed on their phone, yet use 30 per month and 9 per day.

I just switch to the new iPhone and was flipping through the open apps on my old phone. I was surprised to find that I use a lot more apps than I thought…

Here’s My 85 Active iPhone Apps

Messages
Settings
Gmail
Weather
Stocks
Calculator
Google
Google News

LinkedIn
Facebook

Medium
Dial Me In! (Automatically dials you into conf calls. Awesome.)
Inbox
Calendar
OfferUp
SoundHound
DirecTV
News (Apple)
Instagram
Twitter
Clock
ESPN
Chrome
Google Maps
Wallet
Maps (Apple)
Podcasts
Savant ProPayPay
Photos
YouTube
Spotify
Nuzzle
Sonos
TeamSnap
Shyp (Awesome)
Photo Sketch
Messenger
WSJ
Uber
Anyo
Apple Store
Artsy
Saatchi Art
App Store
Hulu
Netflix
Google+
PAHCC
Cash
Wells Fargo
JetBlue
Voice Memos
1st Dibs
Amazon
Notes
Reminders
Docs
Drive
Pure Express (Insurance co.)
Get Human
Goat
NYTimes
Mail
American Airlines
Google Home
Home
Dropbox
Snapchat
Amazon Alexa
TurboScan (Awesome)
Tesla
Fandango
StubHub
Crossy Road
Lighter
Movieclips
OpenTable
Pocket
Google Calendar
SeatGeek
Buffer
Run Too Run
Translate
Speedtest
Sheets
Warriors

My 10 favorites (not most often used but apps I actually like) are in bold. What about you?

A couple other posts I’ve written that I think you will like:

“My Next Google: A perspective from employee 75

“Grand Slams, Strike Outs & What I’ve Learned About Angel Investing”

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David Scacco

Investor, Partner, Advisor. First Google Advertising Exec (2000–07), ex-Chicagoan. Now helping HNW families diversify with real estate and sustainability tech.