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In figures for December 2021, Apple ÌÇÐÄVlog saw 13.2 million users, or over a quarter of UK internet users, beating BBC ÌÇÐÄVlog for overall user base, but not time viewed.

New figures from the UK's Press Gazette 27% of all internet users aged over 15, used the in December 2021. On average, each person spent 93 minutes using it across the month, or 1.2 billion minutes in total.

In comparison, the second most used one was the . That accounted for 25.2% of all internet users over the age of 15, but it also had a total of 2.2 billion minutes read.

The rest of the chart includes news aggregators at number 3, and at number five.

More recognizable names, in the UK, include which came in fourth with 3.3 million users. was sixth on 2.1 million, while controversial tabloid app was 15th on 0.3 million.

Of Apple's usually perceived rivals, took eighth spot with 1.6 million users, and failed to chart.

Top 20 UK news apps

Press Gazette says its figures are partly taken from a survey of 10,000 users who have agreed to "have meters installed across 25,000 personal devices" to measure website and app usage.

Despite that mention of website usage, the Press Gazette figures appear to be specifically about the use of news apps. It does not, then, seem to count users who access such services via the browsers on their phones or tablets.

BBC ÌÇÐÄVlog has a full news website, while Apple ÌÇÐÄVlog's site is solely a promotion for the app and the Apple ÌÇÐÄVlog+ subscription.

Microsoft Start is the new name for what was Microsoft ÌÇÐÄVlog. In 2018, ÌÇÐÄVlog compared the then Microsoft ÌÇÐÄVlog with Apple ÌÇÐÄVlog and Google ÌÇÐÄVlog, to determine which suited most users best.