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

Google Play has 42,437 Communication apps, the 16th largest app category. 4,768 of them have at least 50,000 installs. 1% are paid, and the average rating is 3.9. Ranked by popularity in France. Together these 20 apps got 680M installs in the last 30 days. Google Messages got the most installs in the last 30 days: 190M. Install counts come from Google Play. Last updated on 2026-11-11.

App

Installs, 30 days

vs 30 days before

Last 12 weeks

Total installs

Rating

On Play

Ecosia: Search to plant trees

Ecosia · Communication

290K

−55%

29M

4.0

13 years

Element X - Secure Chat & Call

Element Creations Limited · Communication

57K

+8%

880K

3.5

3 years

OnePlus Community

OnePlus Ltd. · Communication

48K

+29%

4.3M

3.9

10 years

Firefox Focus: No Fuss Browser

Mozilla · Communication

110K

−1%

16M

4.6

9 years

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Mozilla Thunderbird · Communication

110K

±0%

2.4M

3.6

2 years

Send SMS/MMS Messages from PC

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

3.4K

−10%

10M

3.8

15 years

Reolink

Reolink Innovation Limited · Communication

110K

−4%

6.8M

3.7

11 years

K-9 Mail

Mozilla Thunderbird · Communication

9.5M

3.0

16 years

Signal Private Messenger

Signal Foundation · Communication

−9%

210M

4.5

16 years

Orbot: Tor for Android

The Tor Project · Communication

99K

+14%

47M

4.0

16 years

Proton Mail: Encrypted Email

Proton AG · Communication

390K

−16%

15M

4.5

10 years

Discord - Talk, Play, Hang Out

Discord Inc. · Communication

7.2M

±0%

700M

4.3

11 years

Firefox Fast & Private Browser

Mozilla · Communication

8.2M

−15%

530M

4.6

15 years

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Corporation · Communication

3.7M

−14%

190M

4.7

8 years

Telegram FZ-LLC · Communication

29M

−8%

3.8

13 years

WhatsApp LLC · Communication

93M

−4%

12B

4.6

16 years

Contacts

Google LLC · Communication

150M

−8%

6.7B

4.3

10 years

Google Messages

Google LLC · Communication

190M

−4%

12B

4.6

12 years

Google Meet

Google LLC · Communication

180M

−5%

14B

4.4

10 years

Samsung Browser

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · Communication

16M

−15%

3.5

11 years

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