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4mo ago

ChatGPT Leads App Stores for Seventh Straight Month as Weekly Users Reach 800 Million

Appfigures counts roughly 411 million downloads this year, signaling durable mainstream use.

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Overview

  • Appfigures data show ChatGPT was the most downloaded app on Google Play and the iOS App Store from March through September.
  • The ChatGPT mobile app has an estimated 410.8–411 million downloads year to date worldwide, according to Appfigures.
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at the company’s DevDay event that ChatGPT now has about 800 million weekly active users.
  • A July study by researchers from OpenAI, Duke, and Harvard reported roughly 700 million monthly users and more than 2.5 billion messages per day, or about 29,000 per second.
  • ChatGPT’s weekly active user base has grown about 700% since November 2023 and far outpaces rivals, with xAI’s Grok at 65 million MAUs and Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity at 30 million each.