The ChatGPT app from OpenAI has had a fantastic start despite only being available on iOS and in the United States until today’s extension to 11 more international regions.
In its first six days of availability, the app has already topped half a million downloads, according to a recent report by app intelligence firm data.ai. It is only surpassed by the debut of the Trump-backed Twitter clone, Truth Social, in February 2022 in terms of new app releases that have had the highest performance over the course of this year and the previous year.
The App Store has become flooded with third-party apps identifying themselves as “ChatGPT” or “AI chatbot” as customer demand for AI chatbots increased.
Despite the fact that many of these were really “fleece are,” aiming to deceive users into paying for pricey memberships to access their AI, a collection of top applications nevertheless managed to generate millions in revenue from users.
It might have been more difficult for an official ChatGPT app to gain popularity given the competitive environment among AI chatbots. In actuality, though, such was not the situation.
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The majority of its competitors, including other well-known AI and chatbot apps as well as Microsoft’s Bing and Edge apps, which provided some of the first important third-party integrations of OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology, were outperformed by the ChatGPT app from OpenAI.
Though Bing and Microsoft Edge undoubtedly benefited from ChatGPT’s initial popularity, they saw 340,000 and 335,000 downloads on iOS and Android, respectively, in their best five-day periods in February. However, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app easily outperformed them, producing 480,000 installs in the initial five days of its United States launch, when the app was iOS-only
The app outperformed other top AI chatbot apps in the U.S., many of which had generic names to take advantage of consumer searches for terms like “AI” and “chatbot” on the App Store, according to Data.ai’s data. When compared to other apps’ best five-day periods throughout the App Store and Google Play in 2023, OpenAI’s ChatGPT came in at number five in terms of downloads.
According to the data, “Chat with Ask AI,” the sole app that outperformed it, got 590,000 installs between April 4 and 8, 2023, as opposed to ChatGPT’s 480,000 downloads between May 18 and 22. Even though it has only been launched for a week, ChatGPT is already among the top five AI chatbot apps in terms of downloads in May 2023 in the United States.
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