Google's Gemini Struggles to Catch Up to OpenAI's ChatGPT in Download Race on App Stores

Gemini is one of the biggest competitors of ChatGPT, and recently it released its app version on iOS App Store. Everyone wants to see if it can catch up to ChatGPT on the App Store in terms of downloads, because when Claude released its app version on the same platform, it failed to reach ChatGPT’s numbers. Catching up to ChatGPT is challenging because ChatGPT is responsible for about half of the AI apps revenue on Google Play Store as well as Apple App Store.

Gemini was released on Google Play Store in February 2024, and since then it has gotten 64 million downloads. ChatGPT, on the other hand, got 130 million downloads in the same time period even though it isn't even a new app. So, this makes us wonder what will be the future of Gemini on Google Play as it doesn't seem to catch up with ChatGPT.

It has been well over a month since Gemini was released on the App Store, and according to data from Appfigures, it has gained 4.5 million downloads since then. Its peak was 250k daily downloads, which is about 25k downloads less when it was initially released on Google Play. Most of the downloads of Google Gemini on the App Store were from the USA, with 26% total downloads, followed by Japan, Brazil, India and the UK. It is an interesting thing because most of these countries have Android phones and Android apps excel there.

Claude was released on the Apple Store in May but has yet to catch up with ChatGPT’s numbers. Similarly, it was also released on Google Play Store in June and the situation is still the same on this platform. Claude has gotten 4 million downloads ever since its release on the App Store, which is even less than Gemini. It doesn't seem that both of these apps, Claude and Gemini, are going to reach ChatGPT’s numbers of downloads on the App Store. ChatGPT has enough brand recognition that it is still managing to capture millions of downloads every month on both Apple Store and Google Store. Many other third party AI apps are also doing better than Gemini and Claude on both platforms, with more downloads and making more money. It is predicted that Gemini and Claude are going to get forgotten between ChatGPT and other third party AI apps.


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