Avast Unveils Top Ten Apps Draining Your Android Phone

What do Tinder, Snapchat, Spotify, and Wattpad all have in common? Avast, the leader in digital security products for consumers and businesses, found they are all top performance drainers on Android phones when run by users, according to the Avast Android App Performance & Trend Report for Q3 2016. Avast calculated the total performance drain of the Android apps on people’s phones by combining their impact on battery life, storage capacity and data plan usage to reveal the top 20 greediest apps. News apps Daily Mail Online and ynet were two of the new entrants in the charts this quarter, joining regulars Facebook, Instagram and messaging app WhatsCall in the top ten chart for greediest apps that run automatically on a phone.