Although only available in the US and iOS before today Expand to 11 more global marketsOpenAI’s ChatGPT . Application got off to a great start. The app surpassed half a million downloads in the first six days of its launch, according to a new analysis by an app intelligence provider. data.ai. That ranks it as one of the highest-performing new app releases both this year and last, second only to the arrival of Trump-backed Twitter clone Truth Social in February. 2022.
As consumer demand for AI chatbots grew, other third-party apps calling themselves “ChatGPT” or “AI chatbot” filled the App Store. While many of these people have basically fleecetrying to trick consumers into paying for expensive subscriptions to access their AI, a group of top apps combined still manage to attract millions of consumers to spend. The competitive landscape between these AI chatbot apps may have created a tougher market for the official ChatGPT app to gain traction. But as it turns out, that’s not the case.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT app outperforms most of its competitors, including other popular AI and chatbot apps as well as apps from Microsoft, Bing, and Edge, offering a number of important third-party integrations first weight of OpenAI’s GPT-4 Technology.
While Bing and Microsoft Edge have certainly benefited from interest in ChatGPT at launch, with 340k and 335k downloads on iOS and Android respectively in their best 5-day period on In February, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app easily surpassed them, generating 480,000 installs in its first five days since its launch in the US, when the app was iOS-only.
Compared to Bing and Edge’s iOS downloads alone, ChatGPT is even ahead with 480,000 installs compared to Bing’s 250,000 and Edge’s 195,000.
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However, Bing and Edge still lead ChatGPT when looking at all US downloads for May across both app stores — but not when comparing iOS installs only for the month. That suggests ChatGPT could soon get ahead of these search-focused alternatives.
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Data.ai’s analysis also shows the app outperforms other top AI chatbot apps in the US, many of which are given generic names to capitalize on consumer searches for keywords like “AI” and “chatbot” on the App Store. Here, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is in the top 5 by downloads, as ranked against the best 5 days of other apps in 2023 on the App Store and Google Play.
The data says the only app to surpass it is “Chat with Ask AI,” which had 590,000 installs between April 4 and 8, 2023, compared to ChatGPT’s 480,000 installs between April 18 and April 20. May 22, the data said.
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Although it’s only been out for a week, ChatGPT has already ranked in the top 5 among AI chatbot apps by downloads in the US as of May 2023. At the time of data.ai calculations. , it compared ChatGPT and other top chatbot apps on May 23rd — so, technically, it’s been less than a week since ChatGPT launched.
By then, the app had 550,000 downloads, on par with Genie – AI Chatbot, the next closest ranked AI chatbot app as of May download on the US App Store. However, a few others have gone ahead, including ChatOn — AI Chat Bot Assistant (610k installs), AI Chatbot – Nova (680k installs) and Chat with Ask AI (1.4 million installs). ). However, given how quickly ChatGPT can hit half a million installs, it could soon beat these competitors.
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Plus, ChatGPT had one of the best new launches this year — and in 2022, data.ai finds.
In the first 5 days ChatGPT was downloaded to iOS in the US after its launch, it generated 480,000 installs, ranking as the 2nd biggest launch app, behind Truth Social with 630,000 downloads. The next biggest launch (i.e. first 5 days after launch) includes the arrival of the Widgetable: Lock Screen Widget (360,000 installs) in March 2023 and the launch of MyNBA2K23 (310,000 installs) set) and sendtit – Instagram Q&A in 2022 (260,000 installs).
This also places ChatGPT in the >99.99th percentile for new US app launches since 2022 on iOS.
Data.ai notes that only the top 1% of apps generated more than 10,600 downloads in the US in the first five days, and the top 0.1% of apps generated more than 45,000 downloads. Its analysis includes data on approximately 39,000 apps that have launched in the US on iOS since the beginning of 2022 and subsequently ranked in the top charts at some point during this time period. (The data doesn’t include Apple’s first-party apps, like Apple Music Classical).
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Of course, installs are just one way to measure consumer demand and are not as reliable as analyzing how many people subsequently signed up and became active app users.
However, because ChatGPT is still so new, data.ai will not yet have an accurate estimate of metrics like daily or monthly active users, it said — it could take weeks to generate.
