Gemini’s cellular adoption has been hovering because the August launch of its Nano Banana picture editor mannequin, which has obtained optimistic evaluations, notably from customers who say they will now extra simply carry out advanced edits and create reasonable photographs. The app has climbed to the highest of world app shops’ charts and has seen a forty five% month-over-month enhance in downloads within the month of September up to now, in accordance with new knowledge supplied by app intelligence agency Appfigures.
Although the month is barely half over, Gemini’s app has already gained 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million in August.
Earlier than this month, Gemini had solely gotten as excessive as No. 3 on the U.S. App Retailer on January 28, 2025.
Shortly after Nano Banana’s launch, Gemini reached the No. 2 spot on the U.S. App Retailer on September 8. It then grew to become the No. 1 app on September 12, the place it has remained, after knocking OpenAI’s ChatGPT all the way down to No. 2. No different devoted AI apps are within the prime 10 on the App Retailer at the moment.
Gemini additionally grew to become one of many prime 5 iPhone apps general in 108 international locations globally, Appfigures’ knowledge signifies.
On Google Play, Gemini jumped from the No. 26 general prime app within the U.S. on September 8 to turn into the No. 2 app as of Monday. Nevertheless, regardless of Android being Google’s personal platform, ChatGPT stays within the prime spot as of the time of writing.
Google has been touting Gemini’s progress, as extra mainstream customers have been attempting out the brand new image-editing options. As an illustration, Google Gemini and Google Labs VP Josh Woodward shared on X on September 8 that the app had gained 23 million first-time customers because the Nano Banana mannequin launched, and people customers had shared over 500 million photographs.
The app’s speedy progress can be driving will increase in shopper spending.
Of the $6.3 million Gemini generated this 12 months on iOS gadgets, $1.6 million was from the month of August, with a lot of that coming in after the Nano Banana mannequin’s launch. That’s up 1,291% from January’s determine of $115,000, Appfigures estimates.
The app can be on monitor to at the very least match August’s quantity if not surpass it in September, as Gemini has pulled in $792,000 up to now this month — roughly half of August’s whole.
This 12 months, Gemini’s app has been downloaded 103.7 million occasions and has seen 185.4 million downloads thus far since its launch on Android in February 2024 and its growth to iOS later that 12 months.
