Sora hit 1M downloads faster than ChatGPT

After OpenAI’s video-generating app Sora surged to the No. 1 position connected the U.S. App Store, it has now, technically, experienced a bigger archetypal week than ChatGPT connected iOS, according to caller information from app quality supplier Appfigures. Its estimates amusement that Sora saw 627,000 iOS downloads successful its archetypal 7 days of availability, compared with ChatGPT’s 606,000 iOS downloads during its archetypal week.

Shortly aft the work of this article, OpenAI’s caput of Sora, Bill Peebles, announced that, crossed platforms, Sora reached a cardinal downloads (across platforms, not conscionable iOS) successful nether 5 days. He said that’s faster than ChatGPT did, contempt Sora being successful invite-only mode.

ChatGPT was disposable lone successful the U.S. during its archetypal week, portion Sora is presently offered successful the U.S. and Canada astatine launch. Still, Appfigures information indicated that Canada contributed astir 45,000 installs, truthful the Sora motorboat was astir 96% of ChatGPT’s motorboat connected iOS alone, if the information had been based connected the U.S. numbers only.

This level of user adoption is worthy noting due to the fact that Sora requires an invitation to get in, portion ChatGPT was publically disposable astatine launch. That makes Sora’s show much impressive.

During its archetypal day, Sora saw 56,000 iOS app installs successful abbreviated order, bumping the app to go the No. 3 Top Overall app connected the U.S. App Store, Appfigures said. By Friday, October 3, it reached No. 1. That surge had already enactment Sora’s debut up of different large AI app launches, including Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft’s Copilot, and enactment it connected par with xAI’s Grok launch.

A speedy scan of societal media provides plentifulness of anecdotes that enactment Appfigures’ data. Sora videos, which uses the caller Sora 2 video exemplary and gives users the quality to make realistic deepfakes, look to beryllium everywhere. Users are even creating deepfakes of dormant people, a usage lawsuit that has prompted Zelda Williams, girl of the precocious histrion Robin Williams, to inquire folks to halt sending her AI-generated images of her father.

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Per Appfigures, the app has seen dependable adoption since its archetypal time connected the market, September 30, 2025. Its information indicates that regular downloads connected iOS deed a precocious people of 107,800 downloads connected October 1, 2025. It has since seen betwixt lows of 84,400 regular installs (on October 6) and 98,500 regular installs (on October 4).

While that’s not rather arsenic precocious arsenic earlier successful the week, it’s inactive decent numbers for an app that not everyone tin yet use.