Daily hours spent in apps by country in Q3.
Daily hours spent in apps by country in Q3.
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App Annie: Consumers in 5 countries spend more than 5 hours a day in apps

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Consumers in five countries now spend more than five hours a day using mobile apps. And consumers in 12 major markets spend over four hours per day in mobile apps, according to mobile data and analytics firm App Annie.

How much free time does the average working person have per day? App Annie made an estimate of what is typical behavior. Let’s say the worker gets home from work at 6 p.m., then prepares something to eat. If the person goes to bed at 11 p.m., that leaves around four hours in the evening. Add in some time on the commute and at lunch, and the average working person has just over five hours of leisure time a day.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.