ChatGPT’s cellular app is raking within the income.
Since launching in Could 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android units has reached $2 billion in international client spending, based on a brand new evaluation by app intelligence supplier Appfigures. That determine is roughly 30x the mixed lifetime spending of ChatGPT’s rivals on cellular, together with Claude, Copilot, and Grok, the evaluation signifies.
To this point this 12 months, ChatGPT’s cellular app has made $1.35 billion, up 673% 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 greater — or about 53x greater — than ChatGPT’s subsequent nearest competitor, Grok, which made roughly $25.6 million this 12 months to this point. Grok’s common month-to-month client spending is estimated at $3.6 million, or 1.9% of ChatGPT’s.
This knowledge means that different client chatbots nonetheless have a approach to go to meet up with ChatGPT’s dominance on cellular units, even when the numbers don’t present an entire image of the AI firms’ general income. Shoppers, groups, and companies may subscribe to AI plans on the net, and the businesses generate income in different methods, too, like through their APIs.
Fairly, this new knowledge presents a window into the apps’ traction with customers, who uncover and pay for these AI assistants through the cellular app shops.
It’s additionally value noting that when xAI’s Grok launched in November 2023 (after ChatGPT), Grok didn’t initially have stand-alone iOS or Android apps. As a substitute, customers interacted with the AI chatbot by way of the X platform. Grok solely grew to become obtainable on cellular units by way of 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 to this point is even greater, at $10, main the market to account for 38% of the app’s income to this point. Germany is the second-largest market, accounting for five.3% of ChatGPT’s lifetime whole spending.
ChatGPT’s lead may also be seen by way of downloads. Up to now, the app has been put in an estimated 690 million instances globally, in contrast with Grok’s 39.5 million. (That places X proprietor Elon Musk’s current complaints concerning the App Retailer’s alleged favoritism of ChatGPT in its High Charts into higher context.)
Common month-to-month downloads of ChatGPT globally are actually at roughly 45 million, up 180% from about 16 million in January by way of July of 2024.
In 2025 to date, ChatGPT’s app has been downloaded 318 million instances, or 2.8x 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.
