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2020 Year in Review

Celebrating a year of growth and innovation on Flathub

27.3m

Total Downloads

0

New Apps

0

Total Apps

90.3m

App Updates

📈

Year-over-year growth

Downloads vs 2019

+990.8%

🏆Top Apps

Online music streaming service

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

GNU Image Manipulation Program

High-end image creation and manipulation

🎮Top Games

Create your own world in one of the most popular video games

Battle for Wesnoth

A turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme

Online multiplayer shooter game

🕹️Top Emulators

Frontend for emulators, game engines and media players

A Super Nintendo emulator

PlayStation 2 emulator

🏪Top Game Stores

Launcher for the Steam software distribution service

Minecraft Bedrock Launcher

Download and play Minecraft Bedrock Edition on GNU/Linux

A libre replacement for Steam

🔧Top Game Tools

Phoenicis PlayOnLinux

Install and run Windows software on Linux

Stream games and other applications from another PC running Sunshine or GeForce Experience

Interpreter for numerous adventure games and role-playing games

💎Hidden Gems

Apps with growing traction

Compare images and videos

Calculate display info like DPI

Visualise D-Bus activity

🚀Trending Categories

Categories with the most growth this year

System

+2736%

2020157.8k

20195.6k

Developer Tools

+1520%

2020580.5k

201935.8k

Networking

+1459%

20201.3m

201980.5k

Category Highlights

🏆

Most Popular

The app with the highest number of downloads this year

📈

Biggest Growth

The app that gained the most new downloads compared to the previous year

✨

Newcomer of the Year

The most popular app released this year

🏅

Most Improved

The app with the highest percentage growth rate compared to the previous year

Productivity

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

The LibreOffice productivity suite

122.9k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Merge, shuffle, and crop PDFs

🏅 Most Improved

WPS Office Suite

Graphics & Photography

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

🏅 Most Improved

GNU Image Manipulation Program

High-end image creation and manipulation

183.6k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Photo Management Program

Audio & Video

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

🏅 Most Improved

Online music streaming service

265.6k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Listen to internet radio

32.9k downloads

Education

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

🏅 Most Improved

A drawing program for children

31.8k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

A sweet painting tool

Games

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

🏅 Most Improved

Launcher for the Steam software distribution service

132.9k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Minecraft Bedrock Launcher

Download and play Minecraft Bedrock Edition on GNU/Linux

Networking

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

187.3k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Fast, Private & Safe Web Browser

68.1k downloads

🏅 Most Improved

Talk, play, hang out

Developer Tools

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

🏅 Most Improved

Visual Studio Code

Code editing. Redefined.

106.3k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Telemetry-less code editing

11.9k downloads

Science

🏆 Most Popular

Real-time statistical spreadsheet

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Displays geological maps of the UK.

System

🏆 Most Popular

📈 Biggest Growth

Virtualisation made simple

30.9k downloads

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Flash multiple USB devices in parallel

Utilities

🏆 Most Popular

A secure and free password manager for all of your devices

44.4k downloads

📈 Biggest Growth

Access your files from any computer

✨ Newcomer of the Year

Manage Flatpak permissions

25.8k downloads

🏅 Most Improved

Show weather conditions and forecast

💻Platform downloads

X86_64

99.2%

27m

I386

0.3%

93.8k

AARCH64

0.3%

93.6k