WhatsApp Vs Telegram Download: As WhatsApp is under fire currently due to its controversial privacy policies, Encrypted messaging Telegram is seeing huge uptick in downloads from Apple and Google's app stores. Telegram has become the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in the same month a year ago, according to latest data released by app analytics firm Sensor Tower.

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Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp, by contrast, is seeing its growth decline following a fiasco that forced the company to clarify a privacy update it had sent to users.

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According to the recently released data from Sensor Tower, Telegram has become the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide in January 2021, with 24 percent of the total downloads coming from India. Last month, the messaging app was downloaded 63 million times (which means India saw around 15 million new Telegram users in January, going by the percentage given), 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020, the Zee Media Bureau reported.

While TikTok came in a close second followed by Signal and Facebook, WhatsApp slid to the fifth position from its earlier third place, in January. The Telegram was ranked at ninth position in terms of downloads on Google Play in the month of December. The app has also managed to enter the top-five downloads on the Apple App Store.

The Sensor Tower report said: “Telegram has attained the top position in the overall downloads (non-game) on Google Play Store moving from ninth position in the previous month, December 2020. The social messenger has also entered the list of top 10 most downloaded (non-game) apps on App Store, directly gaining the fourth position.

The popularity of Telegram increased dramatically after WhatsApp started sending notifications to over 400 million users in India in January asking them to either accept its new policy or see their accounts removed from February 8. Facing a huge backlash in the country, WhatsApp deferred its new data privacy policy by three months and said that no one will lose his or her account from February 8 for not accepting the updated terms of service.