The top 20 popular Communication Apps for Android in Australia with NO ads

Google Play has 42,113 Communication apps, the 16th largest app category. 4,742 of them have at least 50,000 installs. 1% are paid, and the average rating is 3.9. Ranked by popularity in Australia. Together these 20 apps got 340M installs in the last 30 days. Google Messages got the most installs in the last 30 days: 210M. Install counts come from Google Play. Last updated on 2026-10-26.

App

Installs, 30 days

vs 30 days before

Last 12 weeks

Total installs

Rating

On Play

Emergency Plus

National Triple Zero Awareness Work Group · Communication

14K

+46%

1.5M

4.0

6 years

Whirldroid

gregdev · Communication

−85%

24K

–

14 years

Smart Search & Web Browser

Reactive Phone · Communication

22K

+24%

6.7M

4.2

12 years

Private & Secure VPN: TorGuard

TorGuard · Communication

19K

+28%

1.5M

4.4

13 years

RUCKUS Cloudpath by CommScope

Ruckus Wireless International Inc. · Communication

1.1K

−56%

1.2M

2.1

16 years

Zoiper IAX SIP VOIP Softphone

Securax EOOD · Communication

28K

+32%

5.8M

4.5

14 years

InBrowser - Incognito Browsing

PIA Private Internet Access, Inc · Communication

8.6K

+12%

6.9M

3.1

15 years

FolderSync Pro

Tacit Dynamics · Communication

690

−31%

220K

4.5

15 years

RSA Authenticator (SecurID)

RSA Security · Communication

69K

+28%

12M

3.3

15 years

EchoLink

Synergenics, LLC · Communication

920

2×

810K

4.0

16 years

ANT Radio Service

ANT+ · Communication

+30%

2.6B

3.4

15 years

Samsung Push Service

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · Communication

80M

+18%

3.9

13 years

Wear OS by Google Smartwatch

Google LLC · Communication

1.1M

+10%

120M

3.2

12 years

Torque Pro (OBD 2 & Car)

Ian Hawkins · Communication

19K

+4%

4.6M

3.9

16 years

Google Messages

Google LLC · Communication

210M

+22%

12B

4.6

11 years

Messenger

Meta Platforms, Inc. · Communication

36M

+21%

4.7

12 years

Send SMS/MMS Messages from PC

MightyText: SMS Texting w/ PC - SMS Messaging · Communication

3.7K

+34%

10M

3.8

15 years

Network Info II

Alexandros Schillings · Communication

1.7M

4.2

16 years

Firefox Fast & Private Browser

Mozilla · Communication

10M

+38%

520M

4.6

15 years

Easy Tether Lite (No root)

Mobile Stream · Communication

3.9M

2.8

16 years

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