The phrase "a popular version" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a widely accepted or favored adaptation of something, such as a book, song, or film.
Example: "The movie is based on a popular version of the classic fairy tale that has been retold many times."
Alternatives: "a well-known adaptation" or "a favored rendition".
In December 1997, the AltaVista search portal introduced a popular version of machine translation for the World Wide Web.
A popular version of the latter is the Tote-and-Go 72-Hour Survival Kit made by the Nitro-Pak Preparedness Center in Heber City, Utah.
A $350 version of the laptop comes with 4 gigabytes of storage and runs Ubuntu, a popular version of the open-source operating system Linux.
Mr. Ayvazian, for example, said he could imagine a popular version of the videophone that would let online shoppers talk to sales representatives who could show them products.
At American Repertory, he established his reputation for exhilarating, slick choreography, staging 17 ballets, including a popular version of Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are".
But the race to develop a popular version of this new digital interface is on and is attracting both tech titans and upstart inventors.
This combined requirement of engineering group-level adaptation in addition to the existence of an interactor at the group level is a very popular version of the necessary conditions for being a unit of selection within the group selection debates.
They're like a less popular version of Mumford & Sons with a really good lead singer.
The dirty martini, a fairly popular version, uses olive brine for an additional kick, plus olives as a garnish.
The Office business, for example, might well have a powerful incentive to make sure that it runs on Linux, an increasingly popular version of the Unix, a competitor to Windows.
Git is a very popular version control system.
