ChatGPTβs cellular app is raking within the income.
Since launching in Might 2023, ChatGPTβs app for iOS and Android gadgets has reached $2 billion in world client spending, in keeping with a brand new evaluation by app intelligence supplier Appfigures. That determine is roughly 30x the mixed lifetime spending of ChatGPTβs rivals on cellular, together with Claude, Copilot, and Grok, the evaluation signifies.
Up to now this 12 months, ChatGPTβs cellular app has made $1.35 billion, up 673% year-over-year from the $174 million it made throughout the identical interval (January-July) in 2024, per the information. On common, the app is producing near $193 million per thirty days, up from $25 million final 12 months.
Thatβs considerably larger β or about 53x larger β than ChatGPTβs subsequent nearest competitor, Grok, which made roughly $25.6 million this 12 months thus far. Grokβs common month-to-month client spending is estimated at $3.6 million, or 1.9% of ChatGPTβs.
This information means that different client chatbots nonetheless have a technique to go to meet up with ChatGPTβs dominance on cellular gadgets, even when the numbers donβt present a whole image of the AI corporationsβ general income. Shoppers, groups, and companies may also subscribe to AI plans on the net, and the businesses generate income in different methods, too, like by way of their APIs.
Slightly, this new information presents a window into the appsβ traction with customers, who uncover and pay for these AI assistants by way of the cellular app shops.
Itβs additionally price noting that when xAIβs Grok launched in November 2023 (after ChatGPT), Grok didnβt initially have stand-alone iOS or Android apps. As an alternative, customers interacted with the AI chatbot by means of the X platform. Grok solely grew to become out there on cellular gadgets by means of its personal iOS app as of early January 2025 and has been on Google Play since March 4.
Nonetheless, ChatGPTβs lifetime world spending per obtain is $2.91, in comparison with Claudeβs $2.55, Grokβs $0.75, and Copilotβs $0.28, Appfigures discovered.
Within the U.S., ChatGPTβs spending per obtain thus far is even larger, at $10, main the market to account for 38% of the appβs income thus far. Germany is the second-largest market, accounting for five.3% of ChatGPTβs lifetime whole spending.
ChatGPTβs lead may also be seen by way of downloads. Up to now, the app has been put in an estimated 690 million occasions globally, in contrast with Grokβs 39.5 million. (That places X proprietor Elon Muskβs latest complaints concerning the App Retailerβs alleged favoritism of ChatGPT in its Prime Charts into higher context.)
Common month-to-month downloads of ChatGPT globally are actually at roughly 45 million, up 180% from about 16 million in January by means of July of 2024.
In 2025 to this point, ChatGPTβs app has been downloaded 318 million occasions, or 2.8x greater than the 113 million it noticed throughout the identical interval final 12 months. By the variety of installs, nonetheless, India is the highest market, accounting for 13.7% of lifetime downloads, in contrast with second place, the U.S., which accounted for 10.3% of all downloads.
