Live daily · Updated September 30, 2026
48 major AI apps, ranked by App Store + Google Play chart position and SimilarWeb web traffic — the two signals a16z uses, but free and updated every day. Today’s #1 is ChatGPT.
ChatGPT
is the #1 AI app by combined chart + web rank.
#1
App Store rank
5.6B
web visits/mo
4.79★
rating · 73M reviews
1.6B
Play installs
48 AI apps · chart + web + ratings · snapshot September 30, 2026.
#1
ChatGPT tops the leaderboard — #1 on the App Store, 5.6B web visits/mo, 1.6B installs and 4.79★.
48
major AI apps ranked by a 50/50 blend of mobile chart position and web traffic — the two signals a16z uses.
2.3B
Google Play installs for Google Gemini— the most-installed on the list. Apple doesn’t publish App Store installs, so this counts Google Play.
44
of the 48 are web-first — huge on the web but not in the US mobile top charts (DeepSeek, Character.AI, Cursor…). Charts alone miss them.
Ranked by a 50/50 aggregate of App Store + Google Play chart position and SimilarWeb web traffic. "App Store"/"Google Play" = best US chart rank (— if not charting); "Web visits/mo" shows monthly visits and the web rank; "24h" is the chart move vs September 29, 2026.
| # | AI app | App Store | Google Play | Rating (reviews) | Play installs | Web visits/mo (rank) | 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT | 1 | 2 | 4.79★ 73M | 1.6B | 5.6B #1 | — |
| 2 | Google Gemini | — | — | 4.58★ 47M | 2.3B | 2.6B #2 | — |
| 3 | Canva | — | 1 | 4.79★ 31M | 775M | 864M #4 | — |
| 4 | Claude | — | — | 4.54★ 1M | 66M | 950M #3 | — |
| 5 | DeepSeek | — | — | 3.82★ 349K | 99M | 354M #5 | — |
| 6 | Grok | — | — | 4.87★ 1M | 58 | 210M #6 | — |
| 7 | Doubao | — | — | — | — | 160M #7 | — |
| 8 | Character.AI | — | — | 2.60★ 3M | 70M | 160M #8 | — |
| 9 | Janitor AI | — | — | — | — | 142M #9 | — |
| 10 | Kling AI | — | 2 | — | — | 2M #39 | — |
| 11 | Perplexity | — | — | 4.67★ 3M | 131M | 95M #10 | — |
| 12 | Microsoft Copilot | — | — | 4.49★ 9M | 1.6B | 73M #11 | — |
| 13 | Suno | — | — | 4.81★ 3M | 45M | 73M #12 | — |
| 14 | SpicyChat | — | — | — | — | 69M #13 | — |
| 15 | Candy AI | — | — | — | — | 64M #14 | — |
| 16 | PolyBuzz | — | — | — | — | 63M #15 | — |
| 17 | Hailuo AI | — | 2 | — | — | 783K #44 | New |
| 18 | Grammarly | — | — | 4.27★ 264K | 61M | 49M #16 | — |
| 19 | ElevenLabs | — | — | 4.71★ 250K | 10M | 36M #17 | — |
| 20 | QuillBot | — | — | 4.54★ 25K | 9M | 32M #18 | — |
| 21 | Meta AI | — | — | — | — | 31M #19 | — |
| 22 | CrushOn | — | — | — | — | 23M #20 | — |
| 23 | Cursor | — | — | — | — | 23M #21 | — |
| 24 | PhotoRoom | — | — | 4.67★ 4M | 179M | 20M #22 | — |
| 25 | Gamma | — | — | — | — | 20M #23 | — |
| 26 | PixAI | — | — | 3.80★ 385 | 179K | 12M #24 | — |
| 27 | HeyGen | — | — | 4.72★ 81K | 1M | 10M #25 | — |
| 28 | Midjourney | — | — | 4.40★ 578 | — | 9M #26 | — |
| 29 | Leonardo AI | — | — | — | — | 8M #27 | — |
| 30 | Talkie | — | — | 4.58★ 23K | 1M | 7M #28 | — |
| 31 | Fotor | — | — | 4.30★ 774K | 44M | 7M #29 | — |
| 32 | Civitai | — | — | — | — | 7M #30 | — |
| 33 | Otter.ai | — | — | 4.76★ 46K | 7M | 6M #31 | — |
| 34 | Runway | — | — | 4.77★ 236K | 2M | 6M #32 | — |
| 35 | Poe | — | — | 4.44★ 519K | 11M | 6M #33 | — |
| 36 | Le Chat (Mistral) | — | — | — | — | 6M #34 | — |
| 37 | Krea | — | — | 4.49★ 655 | — | 4M #35 | — |
| 38 | Gauth | — | — | 4.80★ 4M | 122M | 3M #36 | — |
| 39 | Ideogram | — | — | 4.85★ 46 | 579 | 2M #37 | — |
| 40 | Brainly | — | — | 4.50★ 5M | 298M | 2M #38 | — |
| 41 | Pika | — | — | — | — | 2M #40 | — |
| 42 | Udio | — | — | 4.20★ 413 | 12 | 1M #41 | — |
| 43 | Captions | — | — | 4.53★ 70K | 3M | 999K #42 | — |
| 44 | Chai | — | — | 3.37★ 1M | 24M | 821K #43 | — |
| 45 | Remini | — | — | 4.12★ 6M | 618M | 715K #45 | — |
| 46 | Replika | — | — | 4.31★ 753K | 20M | 529K #46 | — |
| 47 | Pi | — | — | — | — | 474K #47 | — |
| 48 | Lensa | — | — | 4.49★ 613K | 25M | 24K #48 | — |
▲ / ▼ = chart positions gained / lost since the previous daily snapshot. Chart rank is a US-mobile popularity proxy; web visits are SimilarWeb estimates — neither is a monthly-active-users count. Rating is review-count-weighted across the App Store + Google Play; Play installsare Google Play’s reported total (Apple doesn’t publish App Store installs). “—” = no confident official-app match.
We score a curated set of 48 major AI apps on two signals: their best US App Store + Google Play chart position (per store, refreshed daily) and their SimilarWeb monthly web visits. Each becomes a 0–100 score (chart from rank, web from log-scaled visits), and the leaderboard ranks by a 50/50 aggregate. An app strong on only one signal — a web-first model with no US mobile chart, or a charting app with little web — is ranked on the signal it has, not penalised for the other.
Each row also carries the app’s store rating, review count and Google Play installs, matched from our 4.1M-app dataset. The rating is review-count-weighted across the App Store + Google Play (so Android’s far larger review base dominates — e.g. Character.AI sits near 2.60★ from its Android backlash despite a higher iOS score), and installs are Google Play’s total since Apple doesn’t publish them. We attach metrics only on a confident developer match, so web-first apps with no official US app simply show “—” rather than a look-alike’s numbers.
Honest limits. Chart rank is a US-mobile popularity proxy and web visits are SimilarWeb estimates — neither is a monthly-active-users figure. The app set is curated, so a brand-new app can be missing until added. a16z’s Top 100 uses the same two signals (web + mobile) but is biannual and paid — this is free and daily. The aggregate leaderboard is open under CC BY 4.0.
Cite this
Crawlora (2026). Top AI Apps, live daily. #1 = ChatGPT. 48 AI apps ranked by App Store + Google Play chart position and web traffic, September 30, 2026. https://crawlora.net/top-ai-apps.
ChatGPT is the #1 AI app on this leaderboard (snapshot September 30, 2026) — App Store #1 and 5.6B monthly web visits. The full ranking of 48 AI apps is on this page and updates daily.
Each app gets two scores: a mobile chart score (its best US App Store / Google Play position, shown per store) and a web score (its SimilarWeb monthly web visits, log-scaled). The aggregate rank is a 50/50 blend — and an app strong on just one signal (e.g. a web-first model with no US mobile chart) is ranked on that signal rather than penalised. It is a transparent, free, chart-and-traffic ranking — not a paid MAU estimate.
A curated set of the major consumer AI apps across assistants, image/video/voice, companions, search, coding and productivity — the same universe a16z covers. We add a daily chart position (per store) and SimilarWeb web traffic to each. Smaller or brand-new apps may be missing until added.
a16z's list uses the same two signals — web traffic (SimilarWeb) plus mobile (Sensor Tower) — but is published about twice a year on paid data, so it is weeks-to-months stale. This is the live, free, daily version: the same method, refreshed every day, with the underlying chart and traffic data queryable via API.
Daily — the mobile chart positions refresh every day (the 24h column diffs September 29, 2026), and web traffic is refreshed periodically. The App Store + Google Play chart data is queryable as JSON through Crawlora's Datasets API (pay-on-success); the aggregate leaderboard here is open under CC BY 4.0.
The daily Top Free, Paid and Grossing charts for both stores — plus the full 4.1M-app catalog, ratings and reviews — are queryable as clean JSON through one REST API, billed on success.