Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. — According to a new analysis from market intelligence …
Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. — According to a new analysis from market intelligence …
Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January
After rapidly hitting the top of the App Store in October, OpenAI's video-generation app Sora is now struggling.
Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow
Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; Sora is iOS- and invite-only
Appfigures: ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year
ChatGPT's mobile app is raking in the revenue. — Since launching in May 2023, ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android devices …
Appfigures: Google Play now hosts ~1.8M Android apps, down 47% from ~3.4M at the start of 2024, likely due to raising minimum quality requirements in July 2024
Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps. — From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting …
Appfigures: ChatGPT was the most downloaded app globally in March, excluding games, with 46M downloads across App Store and Google Play, its biggest month ever
ChatGPT became the world's most downloaded app in March, excluding games, topping the usual contenders for the No. 1 spot, Instagram and TikTok.
Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India contributing 15.6% of all downloads since its launch
The thesis of the paper was open source AI would outcompete closed models from Google and OpenAI by being more flexible and iterating faster. …
Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India contributing 15.6% of all downloads since its launch
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