There’s some excellent news and unhealthy information for ChatGPT’s cellular efforts. On the optimistic facet, the AI chatbot continues to see the variety of app installs and its income develop, with September setting a brand new file on each fronts: 15.6 million downloads and almost $4.6 million in gross income throughout its iOS and Android apps worldwide. Nonetheless, in accordance with new information from market intelligence agency Appfigures, income progress has now begun to gradual. Whereas over the previous couple of months, income progress was topping 30% — 31% in July and 39% in August — that dropped to twenty% progress as of September.
Slowing income progress may very well be the primary indication that ChatGPT is nearing saturation when it comes to what number of cellular customers are prepared to pay for the upgraded ChatGPT+ subscription service — a reasonably hefty $19.99 per 30 days in-app buy that provides sooner response occasions, precedence entry at peak occasions and early entry to new options and enhancements. The subscription has offered effectively thus far, as ChatGPT on cellular introduced in gross revenues of $2.1 million in June, growing to $2.74 million in July, then $3.81 million in August, and now, the most recent file, $4.58 million in September.
Surprisingly, nevertheless, ChatGPT shouldn’t be the biggest AI app by income. A competitor known as Ask AI is making extra due to heavy advert spending, rising from $6.48 million in Could, when ChatGPT cellular launched, to a peak of $6.55 million in August, Appfigures’ information signifies. It dropped barely in September, all the way down to $5.51 million — however that’s nonetheless bigger than ChatGPT. Different rivals like Genie and AI Chat Smith haven’t grown as huge as Ask AI.
Internet income could also be a special story, given Ask AI’s advert spend, in fact. As for ChatGPT, it netted round $3.2 million in September after Apple and Google took their reduce of the in-app buy revenues.
Along with its income file, ChatGPT noticed 15.6 million installs in September, bringing its lifetime complete to 52.2 million, Appfigures estimates. Google Play is driving the downloads, accounting for 9 million in September whereas the App Retailer accounted for the opposite 6.6 million.
However the App Retailer, not surprisingly, is driving income — or $3 million of the whole in-app purchases final month. The U.S. is the biggest marketplace for the AI chatbot app, accounting for 60% of ChatGPT’s revenues.