The List

The most bandwidthguzzling apps

08 Apple Music 1 GB/hr

British company Uswitch recently revealed which apps are chowing down on the most bandwidth in homes under lockdown. Apple Music clocks in at number eight.

07 Tidal 1.27 GB/hr

Jay-Z’s high-definition music-streaming service certainly demands more bandwidth than the likes of Spotify. Lossless audio and music videos are largely responsible for this.

06 Disney Plus 1.5 GB/hr

Fun fact: Disney’s new-on-the-block streaming platform uses 50% more bandwidth on average than Netflix, and 87.5% more than Amazon Prime Video.

05 iHeart Radio 1.65 GB/hr

Podcasts and live radio shows have evidently been popular in lockdown, and iHeartRadio (formerly known as Clear Channel) has been hogging the Wi-Fi a bit.

04 SoundCloud 1.65 GB/hr

More complex features like embedded widgets and downloads, as opposed to streaming, means that SoundCloud is a bandwidth-intensive way to listen to music.

03 Nvidia GeForce Now 2 GB/hr

Game streaming is naturally a data-heavy process, so it should be unsurprising that Nvidia’s hostedenvironment gaming platform gulps down bandwidth like candy.

02 FuboTV 3 GB/hr

Sports-focused fuboTV offers dual streaming and Cloud DVR storage for high-definition livestreams of sporting events. And wow, it’s hungry for data.

01 Google Stadia 4.5 GB/hr

Of course Stadia gets the number-one spot. Google’s 4K-capable game-streaming platform is an absolute monster when it comes to bandwidth use, so we’re not even remotely surprised.