As of December 2024, microblogging and social platform Threads was the fastest app to reach 50 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide, as the apps took less than a month to reach the milestone. ByteDance-owned CapCut ranked second, as the app took four months to reach over 50 million global MAU. App ChatGPT ranked third, with the revolutionary generative AI application taking only five months to reach 50 million MAU worldwide.
Number of months needed to reach 50 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide among leading mobile apps as of December 2024
App (release date)
Number of months
Threads (July 2023)
0
CapCut (May 2019)
4
ChatGPT (November 2022)
5
Temu (July 2022)
8
Max (May 2020)
11
Brawl Stars (December 2018)
12
Disney+ (November 2019)
12
YouTube Music (May 2018)
24
Amazon Prime (June 2016)
28
Reddit (April 2016)
62
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