Gemini’s cellular adoption has been hovering because the August launch of its Nano Banana picture editor mannequin, which has obtained optimistic critiques, significantly from customers who say they’ll now extra simply carry out complicated edits and create sensible photos. The app has climbed to the highest of world app shops’ charts and has seen a forty five% month-over-month enhance in downloads within the month of September to date, in accordance with new knowledge offered by app intelligence agency Appfigures.
Although the month is barely half over, Gemini’s app has already gained 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million in August.
Earlier than this month, Gemini had solely gotten as excessive as No. 3 on the U.S. App Retailer on January 28, 2025.
Shortly after Nano Banana’s launch, Gemini reached the No. 2 spot on the U.S. App Retailer on September 8. It then turned the No. 1 app on September 12, the place it has remained, after knocking OpenAI’s ChatGPT right down to No. 2. No different devoted AI apps are within the high 10 on the App Retailer right now.
Gemini additionally turned one of many high 5 iPhone apps total in 108 international locations globally, Appfigures’ knowledge signifies.
On Google Play, Gemini jumped from the No. 26 total high app within the U.S. on September 8 to turn into the No. 2 app as of Monday. Nonetheless, regardless of Android being Google’s personal platform, ChatGPT stays within the high spot as of the time of writing.
Google has been touting Gemini’s progress, as extra mainstream customers have been attempting out the brand new image-editing options. For example, Google Gemini and Google Labs VP Josh Woodward shared on X on September 8 that the app had gained 23 million first-time customers because the Nano Banana mannequin launched, and people customers had shared over 500 million photos.
The app’s fast progress can also be driving will increase in shopper spending.
Of the $6.3 million Gemini generated this yr on iOS units, $1.6 million was from the month of August, with a lot of that coming in after the Nano Banana mannequin’s launch. That’s up 1,291% from January’s determine of $115,000, Appfigures estimates.
The app can also be on monitor to not less than match August’s quantity if not surpass it in September, as Gemini has pulled in $792,000 to date this month — roughly half of August’s whole.
This yr, Gemini’s app has been downloaded 103.7 million instances and has seen 185.4 million downloads thus far since its launch on Android in February 2024 and its growth to iOS later that yr.
