Sora For Android Saw Nearly Half A Million Installs On Its First Day

Sora’s Android launch is disconnected to an auspicious start. On its first time connected nan Google Play Store, nan AI video app from ChatGPT shaper OpenAI saw an estimated 470,000 downloads crossed nan markets wherever it was available, according to caller estimates from app intelligence supplier Appfigures.

That makes nan Android motorboat much than four-times nan size of nan iOS launch, pinch 327% much installs (360,000) — but patient notes that’s not an apples-to-apples comparison.

On iOS, Sora was only disposable successful nan U.S. and Canada, and it was invite-only.

Sora connected Android, however, is available successful nan U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, and OpenAI dropped nan induce requirement successful precocious October for its apical markets.

The app was a breakout deed pursuing its debut, contempt its earlier exclusive status. The iOS app deed complete a cardinal installs wrong its first week and quickly jumped to nan apical of nan App Store. Today, it’s still ranking arsenic nan No. 4 app connected nan U.S. App Store’s iPhone Top Free Charts.

With Sora, users leverage AI to make videos utilizing prompts. These videos tin besides see nan users and their friends animated by AI, via a characteristic known arsenic Cameos. Videos are scrollable successful a TikTok-like vertical feed, truthful you tin spot what different group are making pinch nan technology.

Appfigures has besides revised its earlier estimates for first-day iOS downloads of nan Sora app. Originally, its models said nan app saw astir 56,000 day-one downloads. Now that much clip has passed, nan exemplary tin much accurately foretell that nan fig was person to 110,000, pinch astir 69,300 of those being U.S. installs.

By comparison, nan Sora Android app saw astir 296,000 U.S.-based installs, retired of nan 470,000 total, indicating there’s still liking successful nan AI video maker, moreover aft nan first iOS motorboat buzz wore off.

Sora besides competes pinch Meta AI, which released its mobile app to European users today, pursuing its earlier U.S. debut.