ChatGPT’s cell app is raking within the income.
Since launching in Could 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android gadgets has reached $2 billion in international client spending, in keeping with a brand new evaluation by app intelligence supplier Appfigures. That determine is roughly 30-times the mixed lifetime spending of ChatGPT’s rivals on cell, together with Claude, Copilot, and Grok, the evaluation signifies.
Up to now this 12 months, ChatGPT’s cell app has made $1.35 billion, up 673 p.c 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 30 days, up from $25 million final 12 months.
That’s considerably larger — or about 53-times larger — than ChatGPT’s subsequent nearest competitor, Grok, which made roughly $25.6 million this 12 months thus far. Grok’s common month-to-month client spending is estimated at $3.6 million, or 1.9% of ChatGPT’s.
This information means that different client chatbots nonetheless have a method to go to meet up with ChatGPT’s dominance on cell gadgets, even when the numbers don’t present a whole image of the AI firms’ total income. Shoppers, groups, and companies can even subscribe to AI plans on the net, and the businesses generate income in different methods, too, like through their APIs.
Somewhat, this new information gives a window into the apps’ traction with customers, who uncover and pay for these AI assistants through the cell app shops.
It’s additionally value noting that when xAI’s Grok launched in November 2023 (after ChatGPT), Grok didn’t initially have standalone iOS or Android apps. As a substitute, customers interacted with the AI chatbot via the X platform (previously Twitter). Grok solely grew to become accessible on cell gadgets via its personal iOS app as of early January 2025, and has been on Google Play since March 4.
Nonetheless, ChatGPT’s lifetime international spending per obtain is $2.91, in comparison with Claude’s $2.55, Grok’s $0.75, and Copilot’s $0.28, Appfigures discovered.
Within the U.S., ChatGPT’s spending per obtain thus far is even larger, at $10, main the market to account for 38% of the app’s income thus far. Germany is the second-largest market, accounting for five.3% of ChatGPT’s lifetime whole spending.
ChatGPT’s lead will also be seen by way of downloads. Thus far, the app has been put in an estimated 690 million occasions globally, in contrast with Grok’s 39.5 million. (That places X proprietor Elon Musk’s latest complaints concerning the App Retailer’s alleged favoritism of ChatGPT in its Prime Charts into higher context.)
Common month-to-month downloads of ChatGPT globally at the moment are at roughly 45 million, up 180% from about 16 million in January via July of 2024.
In 2025 up to now, ChatGPT’s app has been downloaded 318 million occasions, or 2.8-times greater than the 113 million it noticed throughout the identical interval final 12 months. By the variety of installs, nevertheless, 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.
