- Some mobile Apps are worth a billion dollars on their own!
- This list is not up-to-date or comprehensive, and making no claims of accuracy
- As of Sep. 2021, when this post was published, there may be been changes
- Even if an App has been acquired by a larger parent company (for example, WhatsApp and Instagram acquired by Facebook), the Apps on their own are still worth more than a billion dollars
List (in no particular oder) from the link:
- Instagram - Photo sharing, Social networking (owned by Facebook now)
- Waze - GPS navigation (owned by Google now)
- Uber - Ride sharing
- WhatsApp - Messaging (owned by Facebook now)
- Candy Crush - Game (owned by Activision Blizzard now)
- SnapChat - Social media for youth
- Angry Birds - Game (owned by Rovio)
- Viber - Messaging (owned by Rakuten now)
- Tango - Chat
- Clash of Clans - Mobile gaming (owned by Tencent now)
- Flipboard - Aggregation of news
- KakaoTalk - Messaging, in Korea (owned by Tencent now)
- WeChat - Chat, banking, money transfer, payments (owned by Tencent)
- Shazam - Music identification (Acquired by Apple on deep discount)
- Square - Mobile payment service
Next Billion Dollar Apps (promising Apps), random ones, and in no particular order, as per the links from Forbes, here (2019), here (2020) and here (2021 - link to be updated soon):
- DoorDash - Food delivery
- OpenDoor - Home seller
- Away - luggage
- Duolingo - Language learning
- Chainalysis - Crypto Crime fighter
- Autho - Login tools for companies
- Sonder - Hospitality
- InVision - Design software
- Coursera - Online learning
- Lemonade - Insurance
- KeepTruckin - Truck transport
- Outreach - Sales
- Instacart - Delivery
- Will type in more soon...
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