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AI assistants

  1. Market

    Installs
    300.9M

    Across 5 of 13 apps we could match.

    • AI Chatbot: 113,584,542 installs
    • DeepSeek: 99,297,177 installs
    • Claude by Anthropic: 68,689,209 installs
    • Chatbot AI Assistant: 18,675,815 installs
    • RoboAI: 654,800 installs
    • 38% leader share. AI Chatbot, by Google Play installs, across the 5 of 13 apps we could match
    • #2 Productivity rank. Claude by Anthropic, top grossing, the best rank any app here holds
    • $5.00 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 8 apps that list one. 8 of 9 charge.
    • 9 of 13 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. Grok AI1 Oct1.5M ratings$5.00 to $300.00
    2. Perplexity3 Oct512k ratings$5.00 to $200.00
    3. Claude by Anthropic3 Oct274k ratings$214.99 a year
    4. Chatbot AI Assistant1 Oct202k ratings$39.99 to $99.99 a year
    5. AI Chatbot2 Oct127k ratings$39.99 to $59.99 a year
    6. AI ChatBot AssistantAug 202532k ratings$24.99 to $69.99 a year
    7. Lloyd16 Sep24k ratings$69.99 a year
    8. RoboAIOct 202517k ratings$29.99 to $69.99 a year
    9. DeepSeek29 Sep12k ratings
    10. MeraChat20 Aug16 ratings
    11. OmniAI24 Jun6 ratings
    12. Chat GT8 Sep1 ratings
    13. Vera26 Sep0 ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 6,499 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Limits & caps+5.6%9 of 9 apps
    2. Content+3.3%8 of 9 apps
    3. Accuracy+2.0%9 of 9 apps
    4. Billing+1.4%9 of 9 apps
    5. Sync & data−1.0%7 of 9 apps
    6. Support−1.5%9 of 9 apps
    7. Ads−2.2%9 of 9 apps
    8. UX−3.0%9 of 9 apps
    9. Login & auth−3.3%8 of 9 apps
    10. Performance−4.0%9 of 9 apps
    11. Wishlist−4.0%9 of 9 apps
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  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries
    With

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 10 September 2026.

  6. Your test

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    What to call it. Where to launch. What a user costs.

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    • Where to launch
    • What a user costs
    • Every review, word for word
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Is there a market for a new ai assistants app?

13 apps compete here. They hold 300,901,543 installs on Google Play, counted across the 5 we could match. We hold 6,499 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do ai assistants apps charge?

8 of the 9 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $5 or less. 4 more apps have no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want an ai assistants app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing AI assistants completes to “chat ai - assistants” in 35 of them. Then “chat ai - your ai assistants” in 34, “gbot 4.6 - ai assistants” in 24. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in ai assistants apps?

1. Limits & caps: in 9 of 9 apps, 8.2% of reviews (2.6% in Productivity apps); 2. Content: in 8 of 9 apps, 3.9% of reviews (0.6% in Productivity apps); 3. Accuracy: in 9 of 9 apps, 2.8% of reviews (0.8% in Productivity apps). Counted from 6,499 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures across subscription apps

Their report has no category matching AI assistants apps, so only all-category figures are shown. A near-match would be a guess.

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 779 Productivity apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap.