Many mobile apps come and go throughout the year. Some of these apps don’t leave much of an impact, some may be in trend for some time, but eventually fades out into oblivion.
However, some mobile apps leave a lasting impact on people and prove to be helpful. Let’s take a look at our predictions on apps that may occupy a permanent space in your mobile phone in the next 6 years.
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Line app
The line app was released in June of 2011 in Japan. Line is a messenger app used to connect to people just like Watsapp, Viber and Facebook Messenger. But the unique feature of this app is that is is free and has cute stickers. Everybody knows that one of the significant weaknesses of Japan is anime.
The Line app leveraged this cultural behavior and won their hearts. Many people outside of Japan also use this app, such as Korea, China and Thailand.
The colorful advertisement also plays an essential role in its success. Many cute and humorous stickers used in their online ads instantly captured the younger demographic.
By 2020, the revenue of Line had reached USD 1.51 billion. And this app is just growing more and more. It will not be a surprise if, in the next six years, Watsapp is replaced by Line.
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OpsGenie
OpsGenie is a platform for critical situation management. It was formed in 2012 by Atlassian. This app is handy for ensuring crisis management in urgent situations in a short period of time by assigning the perfect Ops team for the task.
With a total funding of $10 million, OpsGenie, for the most part, has been successful in its functionality and its customers are increasing day by day.
If you want security and protection or need help in a critical situation, Opsgenie is the app to approach. It may charge $9 peruse in a month. However, you can also test it with a free trial.
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Offer Up
Offer Up is a free buy-and-sell market founded in April 2011 by Nick Huzar and Arean Van Veelen. In Offer Up, you can quickly sell your used or unnecessary items.
The interface is utterly simple. You just have to take a picture of your item, enter specifications, and post it. Then if you find a suitable buyer through chat, meet them up at a designated location and undergo the transaction.
Offer Up also enables you to rate a seller, hence making it easier for quality customers to verify legit sellers. Offer up has an estimated $70 Million revenue per year. It is a free and simple app to use. As simple as it is, we can see it in everybody’s mobile phones in the next six years.
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Looker
Looker is a platform founded by Frank Bein in 2011 and was bought by Google in 2019 as part of the Google Cloud Platform.
Looker is a helpful app, especially for startup businesses. It is a simple functioning app that helps you get insights into business fundings, revenue, and analytics.
This app is very helpful as it will give you an idea about the business industry. Looker has an estimated annual revenue of about $140 million.
All of these apps are the ones that has the potential to be purposeful in our daily lives. These apps are slowly getting a strong foot hold in the digital world.
The factors why we think these apps will be popular:
- Initial user base
- Trajectory
- Functionality
- Revenue
- Funding
We saw the same kind of flight path with the likes of Watsapp, Viber, Slack and Carousel. We certainly believe that in the next six years, these apps will be a household name and will be in every person’s mobile phone.
