The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps - 4th Edition | Andreessen ...
In just six months, the consumer AI landscape has been redrawn. Some products surged, others stalled, and a few unexpected players rewrote the leaderboard overnight. Deepseek rocketed from obscurity to a leading ChatGPT challenger. AI video models advanced from experimental to fairly dependable (at least for short clips!). And so-called “vibecoding” is changing who can create with AI, not just who can use it. The competition is tighter, the stakes are higher, and the winners aren’t just launching, they’re sticking.
We turned to the data to answer: Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? And which tools are moving beyond curiosity-driven dabbling to become daily staples? This is the fourth installment of the Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, our bi-annual ranking of the top 50 AI-first web products (by unique monthly visits, per Similarweb) and top 50 AI-first mobile apps (by monthly active users, per Sensor Tower). Since our last report in August 2024, 17 new companies have entered the rankings of top AI-first web products.
Overview of Top Gen AI Consumer Apps
A methodology note: Products that have added significant generative AI features but are not AI-native, such as Canva and Notion, are not included here. In a change from prior editions, this means we’ve removed legacy photo editing products, including Pixlr, Fotor, and PicsArt.
In addition, for this edition we’re introducing the “Brink List”: the next 10 companies — five on web, five on mobile — that just missed the cut-off. The AI world moves fast, and we’re curious to see which (if any!) of these products make the top 100 ranking next time.
Beyond these rankings, our analysis uncovers telling signals about where AI is gaining traction and emerging consumer tech behaviors. Here are some of our top takeaways:
ChatGPT's Growth and Success
When ChatGPT launched in research preview in November 2022, it became the fastest-growing consumer app ever, reaching 100 million users in just two months. However, usage soon plateaued, with global monthly visits nearly flat between March 2023 and April 2024.
More recently, growth has come roaring back. It took nine months for ChatGPT to grow from 100 million weekly active users in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024. Typically, growth becomes more challenging at scale, but in this case it took less than six months to double again — reaching 400 million weekly active users by mid-February 2025.
What’s driving this growth? The long initial plateau stemmed from ChatGPT’s early novelty factor; many consumers found it intriguing, but lacked compelling daily use cases. However, as OpenAI has introduced more advanced models and capabilities into ChatGPT, usage has risen accordingly — both among existing users and a wave of new adopters.
The biggest spikes align with product milestones. The April-May 2024 surge? That was GPT-4o, introducing multimodal capabilities. Users could talk to ChatGPT in real-time, show it images, and get instant, intelligent responses — from snapping a photo of a tricky math problem to having an AI-powered brainstorming session.
ChatGPT’s mobile data tells a more consistent growth story. Since its launch in May 2023, monthly active users have steadily increased by 5 to 15% every month over the past year, as web users also adopted the app. According to Sensor Tower estimates, out of ChatGPT’s 400 million weekly active users, 175 million now use the mobile app.
DeepSeek's Impact
DeepSeek made a big splash in more
