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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.

Olivier Godement, the head of product for OpenAI's developer platform, said companies should secure top-down buy-in when rolling out AI to employees.

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.