Threads is sustaining its obtain momentum, whereas ChatGPT has moved to the highest of the desk within the newest app obtain charts from AppFigures for March 2025.
As you possibly can see, Threads returned to the highest 10 most downloaded itemizing final month, after dropping out in February, with Meta’s Twitter clone app nonetheless seeing robust curiosity on iOS.
It’s much less in style on Android, which might level to regional recognition (Android is the dominant working system in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, whereas iOS sees extra utilization in North America and Oceania), however general, Threads continues to be seeing stable progress momentum, based mostly on obtain numbers not less than.
Energetic customers is a separate, and infrequently very completely different calculation.
Meta reported that Threads was as much as 320 million month-to-month lively customers in January, and based mostly on these stats, it’s possible on observe to exceed 350 million by Meta’s subsequent efficiency replace, which is scheduled for the top of this month. For comparability, X lately reported that it now has 600 million month-to-month actives.
So it nonetheless has a solution to go, however Threads continues to be seemingly rising at a gradual price.
By way of different app tendencies, ChatGPT, as famous, stays in style, underlining the first-mover benefit that OpenAI has tapped into with its AI instruments. As a result of arguably, Meta AI, and even X’s Grok, are simply nearly as good, if not higher than ChatGPT, however launching first has made ChatGPT extra synonymous with AI use.
Although with Google’s AI instruments additionally enhancing, it’ll be fascinating to see how lengthy it will probably maintain onto that spot.
Curiosity in Temu additionally stays excessive, even if its costs will quickly be going up on account of Trump’s tariffs (or possibly due to this), whereas TikTok dropped down the rating, though it noticed extra general downloads in March (45m versus 42m in Feb).
However actually, no main shifts. Meta’s apps proceed to dominate general, whereas the tendencies present that Threads is rising, and ChatGPT stays the important thing AI device of alternative.
