Top 10 Battery, Performance, Network Draining Apps and Games

Much like your PCs, Android suffers from degrading performance and battery life as you install more and more apps. This is because many apps run in background even when you are not using them.
AVG conducted a study to find out the top battery, data and storage consuming apps for Android.

Surprisingly, the most used and backed by "Big Companies" apps turned out to be the WORST for your phone. 

Some of these apps, like the Samsung’s Security Policy Update service, officially named Samsung KNOX™, were reported to decrease battery life by 30-40%!

This study was conducted by the data gathered from the 1 million AVG users (collected using AVG AntiVirus FREE for Android and AVG Cleaner for Android). System apps and apps with less than 1 million downloads were ignored.

Read the full report here [pdf]. 

QUICK SUMMARY 

Apps

Games

FULL LIST 

Top 10 Performance Draining Apps

1. Facebook
2. Spotify Music
3. Instagram
4. Path
5. Amazon Android
6. Samsung WatchON (Video)
7. BBM
8. LINE: Free Calls & Messages
9. 8 Ball Pool
10. Daily Mail online

Top 10 Battery Drainers - Run at Start Up

1. Beaming Service for Samsung
2. Security Policy Updates (Samsung)
3. Facebook
4. Waze Socail GPS Maps & Traffic
5. Vault-Hide SMS Pics & Videos
6. Path
7. Candy Camera - Selfie Selfies
8. magicApp: Free Calls
9. AL-Moazin Lite (Prayer Times)
10. WhatsApp Messenger

Top 10 Battery Drainers - Run by the User

1. Samsung WatchON (Video)
2. OLX Free Classifieds
3. Telstra
4. Spotify Music
5. Amazon Android
6. Retrica
7. Truecaller - Called ID & Block
8. LINE: Free Calls & Messages
9. Amazon Kindle
10. Walmart

Top 10 Storage Eaters

1. Tango Messenger Video & Calls
2. Daily Mail Online
3. Facebook
4. Spotify Music
5. LINE Camera - Selfie & Collage
6. Instagram
7. Chrome Browser - Google
8. SoundCloud - Music & Audio
9. 8 Ball Pool
10. Vine

Top 10 Network Traffic Hogs

1. Daily Mail Online
2. Tumblr
3. Facebook
4. Instagram
5. Spotify Music
6. Yahoo! JAPAN
7. Apple Daily App
8. Yahoo Weather
9. Naver
10. Netflix

Top 10 Performance Draining Games

1. Hay Day
2. LINE Let's Get Rich
3. Boom Beach
4. Candy Crush Saga
5. Farm Heroes Saga
6. The Simpsons: Tapped Out
7. Cookie Jam
8. Candy Crush Soda Saga
9. DEER HUNTER 2014
10. Pet Rescue Saga

Top 10 Battery Draining Games

1. Candy Crush Soda Saga
2. Candy Crush Saga
3. Pet Rescue Saga
4. Clash of Clans
5. Farm Heroes Saga
6. Cookie Jam
7. Boom Beach
8. Bubble Witch 2 Saga
9. Solitaire (MobilityWare)
10. Pou

Storage, Games Only

1. Plants Vs Zombies
2. Despicable me
3. The Simpsons: Tapped Out
4. DEER HUNTER 2014
5. LINE Let's Get Rich
6. Frozen Free Fall
7. My Talking Tom
8. Boom Beach
9. LINE Pokopang
10. Subway Surfers

Traffic, Games Only (3G Only)

1. New Words With Friends
2. Solitaire (MobilityWare)
3. LINE Let's Get Rich
4. Clash of Clans
5. Candy Crush Saga
6. Farm Heroes Saga
7. Pets Rescue Saga
8. Boom Beach
9. Candy Crush Soda Saga
10. Bubble Witch 2 Saga

Which of these apps are you using? What apps do you think need to be on that list?

Tell us in the comments below.