Gemini’s cellular adoption has been hovering because the August launch of its Nano Banana picture editor mannequin, which has obtained constructive opinions, notably from customers who say they will now extra simply carry out complicated edits and create reasonable photographs. The app has climbed to the highest of worldwide app shops’ charts and has seen a forty five% month-over-month enhance in downloads within the month of September to this point, in response to new knowledge offered by app intelligence agency Appfigures.
Although the month is just 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 high 10 on the App Retailer right now.
Gemini additionally grew to become one of many high 5 iPhone apps general in 108 international locations globally, Appfigures’ knowledge signifies.
On Google Play, Gemini jumped from the No. 26 general high app within the U.S. on September 8 to develop into the No. 2 app as of Monday. Nonetheless, regardless of Android being Google’s personal platform, ChatGPT stays within the high spot as of the time of writing.
Google has been touting Gemini’s progress, as extra mainstream customers have been making an attempt out the brand new picture enhancing options. For example, 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 client spending.
Of the $6.3 million Gemini generated this yr 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 observe to at the very least match August’s quantity if not surpass it in September, as Gemini has pulled in $792,000 to this point this month — roughly half of August’s complete.
This yr, Gemini’s app has been downloaded 103.7 million occasions, and has seen 185.4 million downloads up to now since its launch on Android in February 2024 and its growth to iOS later that yr.
