5 October 2026

Claude gains app share on ChatGPT, though US downloads slowed after March

First reported

Big Technology ran this on 5 October.

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, is gaining time spent and daily users on Claude compared with ChatGPT.
The figures come from third-party app analytics firms Similarweb and Apptopia, not from Anthropic itself.
Claude's US app downloads peaked in March, then slowed, so the growth rate has cooled.

Our read

Only Big Technology picked this up, out of 30 newsletters tracked. It follows the 2026-08-17 story on Claude gaining engagement share from ChatGPT in our archive.

Earlier on this story

Aug 17Claude gains user engagement share from ChatGPT, data shows
Sep 6ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down Thursday morning
Sep 5ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down Thursday morning

Written by Newskeryx from which newsletters covered this story and from our own archive.

How it was covered

Big TechnologyAlex Kantrowitz

Claude vs ChatGPT time spent, download trends, DAU and web traffic share, and multi-chatbot usage