U.S. ChatGPT and Gemini app downloads 2024

In September 2024, ChatGPT’s mobile app registered over 4.2. million App Store and Google Play downloads in the United States. Released on February 8, 2024, and initially available in the U.S. market only, Google’s Gemini AI Assistant mobile app registered around 783,632 downloads during the same month. Kicked off by the release of OpenAI’s AI assistant, the AI-powered online search market trend propelled the release of several similar applications mentioning “ChatGPT” or “chatbot”, reaching millions of downloads worldwide.

A reputation preceding its name

Released in November 2022 and available as an app in April 2023, ChatGPT took only five days to reach more than a million users and become the fastest internet service to reach this milestone. Launched by OpenAI as a mobile app on iOS for the United States market, the chatbot registered nearly four million downloads already during its first month on the Apple App Store and, as the startup made it available in other markets in June 2023, it generated over 12 million downloads, reaching another 16 million downloads in August as the app was launched on Android.

The AI race is on

Setting new standards for the global online search market, the release of ChatGPT caught companies like Google and Microsoft by surprise. The first quickly rushed to offer its own alternative AI assistant Bard, now rebranded as Gemini after the company’s large language model (LLM) system, while the second quickly sided with OpenAI’s assistant by integrating it into several of its Bing search engine’s services and applications. Despite roughly one year after its release, the impact of search chatbots is already visible on Google Search search market share on desktop, which registered some of its lowest rates for these devices in over a decade.