You Need the Play Store on Your Fire Tablet to Get These 10 Popular Apps

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Amazon Fire Tablets are some of the most accessible gadgets on the market. For around the same price as dinner and drinks for two, you get a full-blown tablet. However, they're stuck with the Amazon App Store. If you want some of the most popular apps, you'll need to install the Google Play Store.

Big name apps like WhatsApp, Netflix, Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more are available on Fire Tablets. However, when scrolling through the Play Store charts, there are a few notable apps I noticed that are not available in the Amazon App Store. To get them, you'll need to follow our guide for installing the Play Store on Fire Tablets.

1 Telegram

While the App Store does have WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, it does not have another hugely popular messaging app: Telegram. It's ranked 7th for free apps in the Play Store. You could try to use Telegram in the Silk Browser, but a dedicated app would work much better.

2 Gmail

Unsurpsiginly, there aren't a lot of Google apps available in Amazon's competing App Store—YouTube and YouTube TV are the only ones. You can use Gmail on Fire Tablets with the stock Email client or through the Silk Browser, but the expirience is severely lacking.

3 Chrome

Chrome is an even worse situation than Gmail. Fire Tablets are restricted to Amazon's Silk Browser or Opera (which you should not use), both of which are not great browsers. You'll need to install something else if you want to do some serious browsing, and Chrome is the most popular browser.

4 Cash App

I was surprised by a few apps that appeared in the Play Store's Top Charts. One such app was Cash App, which came in at number 10. Cash App is an easy way to send and recieve money, and it's been downloaded over 100 million times on Android. The Amazon App Store is filled with spammy Cash App clones, but not the real thing.

5 Snapchat

You've probably heard about Snapchat. While it may not be the darling child of social media that it used to be, it is still an immensly