BBM Reaches 100M Downloads

Messaging apps are some of the most popular smart phone apps in the market place right now. There are many different alternatives to texting that individuals love to use. These texting apps can allow individuals to text internationally without having very large fees. BMM is a great messaging app that has gained some great popularity very quickly. BGR reports that since it’s launch in 2013, it has had over 100 million downloads. This makes Black Berry Messenger one of the most popular smart phone apps out right now.

CNet reports that users have sent over 1 billion stickers and emoticons to their friends with this app. This app is a great step forward for Blackberry. They are struggling in a smartphone market where they are very late to adapt. They are however talking about releasing a $275 dollar touch screen Blackberry to follow up the success of this messaging app. BBM also has a very active user base of 91 million users. These are very good numbers of active users vs. downloads. Most apps do not have this great of a ratio for their active users. BBM has scheduled an update for their app that will bring many new features to users.

BerryReports states that BBM has a very good track record of great reviews in the Google Play store as well. With over 3.7 million reviews it is easy to see that users are quick to have something to say about the app. The great thing about these reviews as well is that over 2.4 million of these reviews are 5 star reviews. This shows that this app is really hitting hard. There are many individuals out there who choose this to be their messaging app of choice. It looks as though this app will only continue to get bigger and bigger.