Openai’s Sora Soars To No. 1 On The Us App Store

OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is simply a viral hit, contempt being invite-only for now and constricted to users successful nan U.S. and Canada astatine launch. On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now classed arsenic nan No. 3 Top Overall app connected nan U.S. App Store, according to caller information from app intelligence supplier Appfigures. On Friday, October 3, it became nan No. 1 app connected nan U.S. App Store.

That puts it up of Google Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The patient estimates Sora’s iOS app pulled successful a full of 164,000 installs during its first 2 days, September 30th and October 1st.

The day-one fig besides puts Sora’s debut up of nan capacity of different awesome AI app launches, including Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft’s Copilot, and puts it connected par pinch xAI’s Grok launch. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini iOS apps had somewhat stronger launches, pinch each reaching astatine slightest 80,000 downloads connected time one.

Since Sora is still invite-only, this whitethorn not beryllium nan fairest comparison, we’ll admit. It’s imaginable nan caller video app could person attracted moreover more installs if it were unfastened to each users.

Despite this restriction, it’s a reasonably beardown showing for nan caller release, indicating request for AI video devices successful consumers’ hands successful much of a societal networking-like experience. (This is overmuch to nan chagrin of immoderate astatine OpenAI, who want nan institution to attraction connected solving harder problems that use humanity. But who’s to opportunity that humanity isn’t benefiting from deepfakes of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asking, “Are my piggies enjoying their slop?”)

To comparison Sora’s early occurrence to different AI apps, Appfigures had to tally an study that only looked astatine nan different AI apps’ U.S. and Canadian downloads. That’s because nan different AI apps connected nan marketplace person pursued different motorboat strategies. For instance, ChatGPT initially launched connected iOS and limited itself to U.S. users astatine nan time, while Grok limited its iOS-only merchandise to nan U.S., Australia, and India. Anthropic, meanwhile, didn’t bespeak location were geographic restrictions erstwhile it first brought its Claude app to iOS past year.

For much of an apples-to-apples comparison, Appfigures crunched nan numbers to attraction only connected each app’s U.S. downloads, positive those successful Canada, if nan app had been disposable location astatine launch.

It recovered that ChatGPT and Gemini had larger launches than Sora, pinch 81,000 and 80,000 day-one iOS downloads, respectively. Sora tied pinch Grok for day-one installs, astatine 56,000. And it easy hit retired nan launches from AI apps Claude and Copilot. The erstwhile pulled successful 21,000 day-one downloads, while nan second only saw 7,000.

Sora besides deed nan U.S. App Store’s apical charts, becoming nan No. 3 wide apical app by time two. For comparison, ChatGPT reached No. 1 connected its 2nd day, while Grok was No. 4, Gemini was No. 6, Copilot was No. 19, and Claude was No. 78.

This station was primitively published connected October 2, 2025, 11:24 AM PT. It was updated to bespeak nan app’s higher ranking connected Friday.