![]() ![]() ![]() PayPal entered the top 20 on March 17, when it announced it would waive fees for Ukrainian accounts. It evolved into a critical tool for Ukrainians during the war, with new functions including a chatbot for submitting images and videos of Russian troop movements, remote job listings for Ukrainians out of work and even video classes for children unable to attend school.Īpps offering free services, including Wizz Air’s offering of more than 100,000 free airline tickets to Ukrainians, also climbed the rankings. Yakaboo-a studying and listening app-became the third most downloaded on March 2. Language learning and translation apps moved up hundreds of places in the Google Play Store rankingsĭiia, the flagship public service app from the Ukrainian government, continues to be in high demand and is now being used by more than a third of the population. In neighboring Poland, which has received more than two million Ukrainian refugees, the number of Duolingo users studying Ukrainian has grown more than 25 times since the start of the war, the company said on its blog. In Ukraine, demand surged for language-learning apps like Duolingo and Busuu. “The cell phone is always with you and the application shows clearly that this is the end of the air-raid alert, while the sirens going silent may be broken.” ![]() ![]() “In the first days of war not even all air-raid sirens in Rivne worked.” Voitko recalls sirens were sometimes difficult to hear in parts of the city. He recently downloaded Air Alert, the alarm app supported by the Ukrainian government, and reinstalled the language learning app Duolingo to practice German. Max Voitko, 30, relocated to the city of Rivne in western Ukraine after Russia’s troops invaded. In Ukraine, a Software Engineer Seeks Safety and Relief From New Apps More than 11 million Ukrainians have been displaced since the start of the war, including over 4 million refugees fleeing to neighboring countries.īut the download data can offer a useful glimpse into how individuals in Ukraine and Russia are finding new apps to help them better navigate their current circumstances. Cities across Ukraine have been under routine shelling. More than 1,500 Ukrainian civilians have been killed by Russian forces since the start of the war, according to the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights-and the group says they believe the actual total is “considerably higher.” The International Criminal Court has opened an investigation into whether Russian forces have committed war crimes. A Ukrainian seeking safety from shelling in besieged Mariupol and a Russian who’s lost access to Instagram are not experiencing the war in comparable ways. Certainly, the app download trends cannot fully contextualize the brutal realities of one country invading another. ![]()
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