Gemini overtakes ChatGPT on App Store, as its Nano Banana AI model drives downloads up 45%

Gemini’s mobile adoption has been soaring since the August launch of its Nano Banana representation exertion model, which has received affirmative reviews, peculiarly from users who accidental they tin present much easy execute analyzable edits and make realistic images. The app has climbed to the apical of planetary app stores’ charts and has seen a 45% month-over-month summation successful downloads successful the period of September truthful far, according to caller information provided by app quality steadfast Appfigures.

Though the period is lone fractional over, Gemini’s app has already gained 12.6 cardinal downloads successful September, up from 8.7 cardinal successful August.

Before this month, Gemini had lone gotten arsenic precocious arsenic No. 3 connected the U.S. App Store connected January 28, 2025.

Shortly aft Nano Banana’s release, Gemini reached the No. 2 spot connected the U.S. App Store connected September 8. It past became the No. 1 app connected September 12, wherever it has remained, aft knocking OpenAI’s ChatGPT down to No. 2. No different dedicated AI apps are successful the apical 10 connected the App Store astatine this time.

Gemini besides became 1 of the apical 5 iPhone apps wide successful 108 countries globally, Appfigures’ information indicates.

On Google Play, Gemini jumped from the No. 26 wide apical app successful the U.S. connected September 8 to go the No. 2 app arsenic of Monday. However, contempt Android being Google’s ain platform, ChatGPT remains successful the apical spot arsenic of the clip of writing.

Google has been touting Gemini’s growth, arsenic much mainstream users person been trying retired the caller representation editing features. For instance, Google Gemini and Google Labs VP Josh Woodward shared connected X on September 8 that the app had gained 23 cardinal first-time users since the Nano Banana exemplary launched, and those users had shared implicit 500 cardinal images.

The app’s accelerated maturation is besides driving increases successful user spending.

Of the $6.3 cardinal Gemini generated this twelvemonth connected iOS devices, $1.6 cardinal was from the period of August, with overmuch of that coming successful aft the Nano Banana model’s release. That’s up 1,291% from January’s fig of $115,000, Appfigures estimates.

The app is besides connected way to astatine slightest lucifer August’s fig if not surpass it successful September, arsenic Gemini has pulled successful $792,000 truthful acold this period — astir fractional of August’s total.

This year, Gemini’s app has been downloaded 103.7 cardinal times, and has seen 185.4 cardinal downloads to day since its launch connected Android successful February 2024 and its expansion to iOS aboriginal that year.