app stringlengths 3 17 | trends_term stringlengths 4 17 | search_tier stringclasses 5
values | trends_interest_chatgpt100 float64 0.1 100 ⌀ | best_app_store_rank float64 1 25 ⌀ | ios_rank float64 1 1 ⌀ | android_rank float64 1 25 ⌀ | chart_score float64 76 100 ⌀ | ratings_count float64 416 60.1M ⌀ | sw_monthly_visits float64 690k 5.38B ⌀ | sw_global_rank float64 7 77.8k ⌀ | divergence stringclasses 3
values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ChatGPT | ChatGPT | dominant | 100 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 100 | 60,050,220 | 5,382,301,555 | 7 | aligned |
Google Gemini | Google Gemini | moderate | 6.9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 40,589,187 | 2,859,123,855 | 17 | downloads_not_search |
Claude | Claude AI | moderate | 4.6 | 12 | null | 12 | 89 | 844,799 | 946,768,445 | 37 | aligned |
Perplexity | Perplexity | moderate | 4.3 | null | null | null | null | 2,528,313 | 115,813,489 | 370 | search_not_downloads |
Grammarly | Grammarly | moderate | 3 | null | null | null | null | 262,044 | 45,846,354 | 604 | search_not_downloads |
DeepSeek | DeepSeek | moderate | 2.6 | null | null | null | null | 322,757 | 373,469,487 | 113 | search_not_downloads |
Meta AI | Meta AI | moderate | 2.2 | 10 | null | 10 | 91 | null | 25,583,639 | 1,647 | aligned |
Grok | Grok AI | moderate | 1.5 | 2 | null | 2 | 99 | 4,851,379 | 212,330,659 | 103 | downloads_not_search |
Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft Copilot | low | 1.4 | 1 | 1 | null | 100 | 9,111,958 | 119,234,936 | 375 | downloads_not_search |
Midjourney | Midjourney | low | 0.7 | null | null | null | null | 574 | 10,040,649 | 1,936 | aligned |
SpicyChat | SpicyChat | minimal | 0.4 | null | null | null | null | null | 74,085,516 | 401 | aligned |
Candy AI | Candy AI | minimal | 0.3 | null | null | null | null | null | 52,339,397 | 868 | aligned |
Talkie | Talkie AI | minimal | 0.3 | null | null | null | null | 23,157 | 6,422,029 | 6,123 | aligned |
Leonardo AI | Leonardo AI | minimal | 0.2 | null | null | null | null | null | 9,931,072 | 3,263 | aligned |
Civitai | Civitai | minimal | 0.2 | null | null | null | null | null | 6,520,286 | 6,915 | aligned |
Otter.ai | Otter AI | minimal | 0.2 | null | null | null | null | 45,703 | 6,555,066 | 7,376 | aligned |
Poe | Poe AI | minimal | 0.1 | null | null | null | null | 516,242 | 5,978,337 | 8,476 | aligned |
Replika | Replika | minimal | 0.1 | null | null | null | null | 752,162 | 711,121 | 77,760 | aligned |
Chai | Chai AI | minimal | 0.1 | null | null | null | null | 816,041 | 1,015,952 | 55,197 | aligned |
Brainly | Brainly | minimal | 0.1 | null | null | null | null | 4,755,950 | 2,830,802 | 22,133 | aligned |
Doubao | Doubao | unknown | null | 9 | null | 9 | 92 | null | 150,642,138 | 317 | downloads_not_search |
Le Chat (Mistral) | Mistral AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | null | 7,624,975 | 9,138 | aligned |
Character.AI | Character AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 2,950,627 | 168,784,735 | 192 | aligned |
Janitor AI | Janitor AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | null | 126,805,876 | 220 | aligned |
Ideogram | Ideogram | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 416 | 3,036,139 | 10,945 | aligned |
Remini | Remini | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 6,192,213 | 922,419 | 49,020 | aligned |
PhotoRoom | PhotoRoom | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 4,198,132 | 19,151,049 | 3,064 | aligned |
Fotor | Fotor | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 773,512 | 7,951,690 | 6,513 | aligned |
Canva | Canva | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 29,740,973 | 869,982,097 | 32 | aligned |
Runway | Runway AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 231,796 | 6,515,100 | 6,082 | aligned |
Kling AI | Kling AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | null | 2,623,453 | 21,609 | aligned |
Hailuo AI | Hailuo AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | null | 690,175 | 48,013 | aligned |
HeyGen | HeyGen | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 42,935 | 9,612,813 | 3,814 | aligned |
Suno | Suno AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 2,359,035 | 70,259,045 | 539 | aligned |
Udio | Udio | unknown | null | 1 | 1 | 7 | 100 | 3,065 | 1,546,644 | 25,585 | downloads_not_search |
ElevenLabs | ElevenLabs | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 188,755 | 33,603,969 | 1,070 | aligned |
Cursor | Cursor AI | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | null | 22,312,212 | 2,132 | aligned |
QuillBot | QuillBot | unknown | null | null | null | null | null | 24,126 | 34,258,064 | 1,295 | aligned |
Gauth | Gauth | unknown | null | 25 | null | 25 | 76 | 3,370,863 | 3,993,789 | 15,778 | downloads_not_search |
Photomath | Photomath | unknown | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 3,831,260 | null | null | downloads_not_search |
Search vs. Store — AI app search demand vs App Store rank vs web traffic (US, 2026)
One row per major AI app joining three independent popularity signals. Two cross-sectional US snapshots (2026-07-01 and 2026-07-26), 40 curated AI apps each. Aggregate/derived only — no raw records, no PII. License: CC BY 4.0.
- Study + methodology: https://crawlora.net/blog/search-vs-store-2026?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-vs-store
- Dataset page: https://crawlora.net/datasets/search-vs-store?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-vs-store
- Living index (updated panel + lead/lag test): https://crawlora.net/search-vs-store?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=search-vs-store
- Source repository: https://github.com/Crawlora-org/search-vs-store-data
Why it's interesting
Rank the 40 apps by web visits and you get roughly the search order (ChatGPT, Gemini,
Canva, Claude, DeepSeek…), not the App Store order. Search demand and web traffic agree;
the App Store rank is the outlier, scrambled by distribution deals and platform push.
The dataset makes that divergence explicit in the divergence column.
Columns
- app — display name.
- trends_term — the exact query measured on Google Trends (hand-picked to disambiguate brand names, e.g. "Claude AI", "Google Gemini").
- search_tier — coarse Google search-demand tier: Dominant > High > Moderate > Low > Minimal. Coarse on purpose: ChatGPT dwarfs the field ~30–1000x, so the sub-Minimal tail is below Google Trends' resolution and is never individually ranked.
- trends_interest_chatgpt100 — trailing-12-month mean Google Trends interest, anchor-normalized so ChatGPT = 100. Directional, not precise for the small tail.
- best_app_store_rank — best current US chart position across iOS/Play, Top Free + Grossing (null = off the top-100). ios_rank / android_rank — per-store best.
- chart_score — 101 - best_app_store_rank (higher = better standing; null if off-chart).
- ratings_count — combined iOS+Play ratings count (install proxy), where matched.
- sw_monthly_visits — SimilarWeb estimated monthly web visits (absolute; blank = below SimilarWeb's floor). sw_global_rank — SimilarWeb global site rank.
- divergence —
downloads_not_search|search_not_downloads|aligned(tier gap between store standing and search demand).
Files
| File | What |
|---|---|
data/search-vs-store-ai-apps-2026-07-26.csv |
Snapshot 2026-07-26, one row per app |
data/search-vs-store-ai-apps-2026-07-26.json |
Same rows + metadata + the search x store tier matrix |
data/search-vs-store-ai-apps-2026-07-01.csv |
Snapshot 2026-07-01, one row per app |
data/search-vs-store-ai-apps-2026-07-01.json |
Same rows + metadata + tier matrix |
The .json files are a metadata wrapper (method, columns, tier_matrix, data[]), so
the CSVs are the flat, directly-loadable tables.
Caveats worth reading before you cite this
- Do not compute a cross-app search correlation from
trends_interest_chatgpt100. Google Trends rescales 0-100 against the largest term in each request, and ChatGPT's volume collapses the tail into noise. The tiers and thedivergencelabel are robust; a correlation coefficient over these values is an artifact. See the study for the full writeup. sw_monthly_visits/sw_global_rankare joined from the nearest available panel date when the daily SimilarWeb panel had no row for the snapshot date (seesimilarweb_as_ofin the JSON metadata) — a few days off from the rest of the row.- App Store chart history behind these snapshots is only ~2-3 weeks deep upstream; these are point-in-time snapshots, not a long rank history.
Citation
Crawlora (2026). Search vs. Store: AI App Search Demand vs App Store Rank vs Web Traffic (US, 2026). CC BY 4.0. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21987676
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