{"id":200226,"date":"2017-09-21T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=200226"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:11:29","slug":"the-most-downloaded-mobile-apps-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/200226\/the-most-downloaded-mobile-apps-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The most downloaded mobile apps in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capitec is the only banking app to feature in the\u00a0the ten most popular apps downloaded in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the\u00a0annual South African Social Media Landscape report launched on Monday by Ornico and research consultancy World Wide Worx (WWW).<\/p>\n<p>The app featured in ninth on the overall list, behind social media networks Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp but beating ride-sharing service Uber.<\/p>\n<p>According to Arthur Goldstuck, MD of WWW, the study only focused on Android phone apps downloaded in the Google Play, as this is the largest smartphone market in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10 most popular apps in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>WhatsApp<\/li>\n<li>Wish &#8211; Don\u2019t OverPay<\/li>\n<li>Share.it<\/li>\n<li>Facebook Messenger<\/li>\n<li>Facebook Lite<\/li>\n<li>Opera Mini<\/li>\n<li>Joom &#8211; Better Shopping<\/li>\n<li>Instagram<\/li>\n<li>Capitec Remote Banking<\/li>\n<li>Uber<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Capitec&#8217;s popularity ranking and high downloads is likely due to the significant influx in customers the bank has seen over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In June it indicated that it had passed nine million retail customers \u2013 surpassing Absa to become the second biggest in the country using this metric.<\/p>\n<p>In an August interview, Capitec chief executive Gerrie Fourie said that the bank is currently attracting\u00a0100,000 to 150,000 new customers each month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of them we\u2019ve taken from other banks,\u201d said Fourie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy is helping us \u2013 people have started questioning why they have to pay banking costs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/197438\/capitec-has-just-kicked-nedbank-out-of-the-big-four\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitec has just kicked Nedbank out of the \u2018big four\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new South African Social Media Landscape report has revealed which apps are the most popular among South African smartphone users. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":150539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,34],"tags":[1798,26],"class_list":["post-200226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-mobile","tag-capitec","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200226"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200238,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200226\/revisions\/200238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}