Google Play
WhatsApp Messenger holds rank 1 on Google Play on September 4, 2026, with as_of 2026-09-04T08:01:31. Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram lock 2 through 4. Free Fire: 9th Anniversary stays at 5. Versus the September 3 Google Play board, every name and rank is identical, matching September 2 as well. Four Meta titles occupy ranks 1, 2, 4, and 6. The Google Play trends API call used type Google Play, limit 10, and offset 0. App Store objects are not get_growth keywords, so growth calls were skipped.
Top trending apps on Google Play: September 4
WhatsApp Messenger: Meta messaging app. Holds 1 on the Android chart while dropping off App Store Top Free (yesterday's rank 6). No widely reported WhatsApp feature trigger identified for September 4.
Facebook: Meta social app. Holds 2.
YouTube: Google video app. Holds 3. The iOS YouTube Trending board is a different feed: LISA's SaWaDiKa leads that list today.
Instagram: Meta photo and video app. Holds 4.
Free Fire: 9th Anniversary: Garena battle-royale client in an anniversary skin. Holds 5. No widely reported new 9th-anniversary event date identified for September 4 beyond the title string.
Messenger: Meta Messenger. Holds 6, completing four Meta rows in the top 6.
Flipkart Online Shopping App: Indian ecommerce app. Holds 7. No widely reported Flipkart sale trigger identified for September 4.
TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE: ByteDance app. Holds 8. Separate TikTok hashtag and search boards are published as their own September 4 posts.
Clash of Clans: Supercell builder. Holds 9.
Google Photos: Google photo backup. Holds 10.
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What changed on Google Play since yesterday
No new entrants, no big movers, no drop-offs. The 10 names and ranks match September 3 and September 2.
What today's Google Play apps reveal
Android's public top 10 is a default-app chart. Four Meta titles occupy 1, 2, 4, and 6. YouTube is 3, Photos 10, Flipkart 7, TikTok 8, Clash of Clans 9, and Free Fire's 9th Anniversary skin 5. Nothing in that set moved overnight versus September 3 or September 2.
The contrast is iOS. MapQuest still leads App Store Top Free after the Lake America refusal, while WhatsApp left that iOS list (yesterday's iOS rank 6). Google Play did not absorb a MapQuest row in this top 10.
Free Fire at 5 remains the only title that reads like a timed event. Without a rank change across three dated files, it is a fixture with an anniversary label, not a debut spike. Clash of Clans at 9 and Google Photos at 10 are the same pair as September 3.
Track these trends in real time with Trends MCP
This list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends tool with type Google Play and limit 10. The feed is for Android-chart watchers who need a dated snapshot even on unchanged days.
{
"type": "Google Play",
"limit": 10
}
Read the Google Play trends API page for the live call.