Sora Hit 1m Downloads Faster Than Chatgpt

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

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

This level of user take is worthy noting because Sora requires an induce to get in, while ChatGPT was publically disposable astatine launch. That makes Sora’s capacity much impressive.

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

A speedy scan of societal media provides plentifulness of anecdotes that support Appfigures’ data. Sora videos, which uses nan caller Sora 2 video exemplary and gives users nan expertise 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 nan precocious character Robin Williams, to inquire folks to extremity sending her AI-generated images of her father.

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Per Appfigures, nan app has seen dependable take since its first time connected nan 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 nan week, it’s still decent numbers for an app that not everyone tin yet use.