News Feature | January 9, 2015

LogMeIn Identifies Top Apps of 2014

Christine Kern

By Christine Kern, contributing writer

Mobile Health Apps

LogMeIn, using its password manager Meldium, has compiled a list of the top 100 apps based on user data. With access to usage data for more than 1,600 apps and web-based cloud offerings, Meldium is able to analyze and identify the most popular and trending apps and services, scoring each app on a 100-point scale based on the number of people who use it. 

LogMeIn’s “Top Apps of 2014” is arranged by category, and provides a glimpse into the top tools in analytics, collaboration, development, retail and service, sales and marketing, and social media. The results of the analysis are available in an infographic.

The overall Top Apps were Twitter, MailChimp, Gmail, Amazon AWS, and Mixpanel.  Category leaders are Mixpanel (analytics), MailChimp (collaboration), GoDaddy (retail and service), Salesforce (sales and marketing), Twitter (social media), and Heroku (development). 

Other leaders in the analytics category include New Relic and Google Analytics. In addition, LogMeIn points out some newcomers climbing in the rankings. Inspectlet provides website heat maps to playback everything your users do on a site. App Annie allows app publishers to track downloads, revenues, rankings, and reviews for iOS and Android for their apps, and Heap provides instant and retroactive analytics for web and mobile, according to the Meldium blog post. 

While MailChimp led the pack of collaboration apps, it was closely followed by Gmail.  Dropbox, HipChat, and Twillo rounded out the top five.

When it comes to developmental tools, Heroku tops the chart with its cloud application platform, just beating GitHub’s web-based Git repository hosting service. They were followed by Zapier, Amazon Web Services AWS Management Console, and Bitbucket’s free source code hosting. 

Top retail and service apps are GoDaddy, Amazon, Namecheap, Shopify, and iStockPhoto; top sales and marketing apps are SalesForce.com, SurveyMonkey, Wufoo, Unbounce, and AdRoll; and top social media apps are Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, Bitly, and Tumblr.