After OpenAI’s video-generating app Sora surged to the No. 1 place on the U.S. App Retailer, it has now, technically, skilled a much bigger first week than ChatGPT on iOS, in response to new information from app intelligence supplier Appfigures. Its estimates present that Sora noticed 627,000 iOS downloads in its first seven days of availability, in contrast with ChatGPT’s 606,000 iOS downloads throughout its first week.
Shortly after the publication of this text, OpenAI’s head of Sora, Invoice Peebles, introduced that Sora reached one million downloads (throughout platforms, not simply iOS) in below 5 days. He stated that was sooner than ChatGPT, regardless of Sora being in invite-only mode.
ChatGPT was out there solely within the U.S. throughout its first week, whereas Sora is at present provided within the U.S. and Canada at launch. Nonetheless, Appfigures information indicated that Canada contributed about 45,000 installs, so the Sora launch was about 96% of ChatGPT’s launch on iOS alone, if the information had been based mostly on the U.S. numbers solely.
This degree of shopper adoption is price noting as a result of Sora requires an invitation to get in, whereas ChatGPT was publicly out there at launch. That makes Sora’s efficiency extra spectacular.
Throughout its first day, Sora noticed 56,000 iOS app installs in brief order, bumping the app to turn out to be the No. 3 High General app on the U.S. App Retailer, Appfigures stated. By Friday, October 3, it reached No. 1. That surge had already put Sora’s debut forward of different main AI app launches, together with Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft’s Copilot, and put it on par with xAI’s Grok launch.
A fast scan of social media offers loads of anecdotes that help Appfigures’ information. Sora movies, which makes use of the brand new Sora 2 video mannequin and provides customers the power to generate real looking deepfakes, appear to be in every single place. Customers are even creating deepfakes of lifeless folks, a use case that has prompted Zelda Williams, daughter of the late actor Robin Williams, to ask of us to cease sending her AI-generated pictures of her father.
Per Appfigures, the app has seen regular adoption since its first day available on the market, September 30, 2025. Its information signifies that each day downloads on iOS hit a excessive mark of 107,800 downloads on October 1, 2025. It has since seen between lows of 84,400 each day installs (on October 6) and 98,500 each day installs (on October 4).
Whereas that’s not fairly as excessive as earlier within the week, it’s nonetheless respectable numbers for an app that not everybody can but use.
This submit was up to date after unique publication on Oct. 8 to incorporate new data shared by OpenAI’s Invoice Peebles.
