WhatsApp, Chrome and Google app reach — Germany, Q4 2025
Review October–December 2025: WhatsApp leads German Android at 82% reach, narrowly ahead of Chrome
Info
- Sample size
- n = 11,209
- Data date
- October–December 2025
- Segment
- All segments
- Platform
- Play
- Market
- Germany
Analysis
Three apps reach roughly eight in ten German smartphone users: WhatsApp (82%), Google Chrome (82%) and the Google app (81%). Instagram, Facebook and TikTok form a second tier between 60–65%, with TikTok closing to within 4 percentage points of Facebook. The reach gap at the top has narrowed to fractions of a percentage point, making engagement metrics — not reach — the true differentiator among market leaders.
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Methodology
Reach measures the share of German internet users (16+) who opened the app at least once during October–December 2025. Source: Google Play Store app-use event stream. Panel: n=11,209 German residents, effective sample size 7,204 after AGOF demographic raking (age × gender × education). Reference population: AGOF de_online_population (67 million). System apps, OEM shells, the panel app and rewards-app packages were excluded. 95% confidence intervals shown in chart tooltips.
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