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U.S. app uninstalls of ChatGPT’s cell app jumped 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, as shoppers responded to the information of OpenAI’s cope with the Division of Protection (DoD), which has been rebranded underneath the Trump administration because the Division of Warfare.
This information, which comes from market intelligence supplier Sensor Tower, represents a large enhance in contrast with ChatGPT’s typical day-over-day uninstall fee of 9%, as measured over the previous 30 days.
In the meantime, U.S. downloads for OpenAI competitor Anthropic’s Claude jumped up by 37% day-over-day on Friday, February 27, and 51% as of Saturday, February 28, after the corporate introduced that it will not associate with the U.S. protection division. Anthropic mentioned it was not capable of agree on the deal phrases over issues that AI can be used to surveil People and be utilized in totally autonomous weaponry, which AI isn’t but able to do safely.
A set of shoppers seemingly favored Anthropic’s place on the matter, the information suggests.
As well as, ChatGPT’s obtain progress was impacted by the information of its DoD partnership, with its U.S. downloads dropping by 13% day-over-day on Saturday, shortly after the information of its deal went public. These downloads continued to fall on Sunday, once they had been down by 5% day-over-day. (Earlier than the partnership was introduced, the app’s downloads had grown 14% day-over-day on Friday.)
These speedy modifications had been additionally mirrored in Claude’s App Retailer rating, because the app hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Retailer on Saturday, the place it continues to sit down as of Monday, March 2. That’s a bounce of over 20 ranks in contrast with roughly every week earlier than (February 22, 2026).
Customers are additionally sharing their opinions about OpenAI’s deal within the app’s scores, the place 1-star critiques for ChatGPT surged 775% on Saturday, then grew 100% day-over-day on Sunday, Sensor Tower mentioned. 5-star critiques declined throughout the identical interval, dropping by 50%.
Different third-party information suppliers again up Sensor Tower’s findings.
Appfigures, as an illustration, famous that Claude’s complete day by day U.S. downloads on Saturday surpassed these of ChatGPT for the primary time. It additionally noticed the U.S. downloads of Claude enhance, however its estimates put that determine even increased: by 88% day-over-day on Saturday.
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It famous that Claude is now the No. 1 free iPhone app in six international locations outdoors the U.S., together with Belgium, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland.
A 3rd market intelligence supplier, Similarweb, mentioned that Claude’s U.S. downloads over the previous week had been round 20x what they had been in January, however that might be due to different causes past the political points, it cautioned.
