Apple has released its annual App Store charts and ChatGPT has made a big achievement in it. In the year 2025, ChatGPT has become the most downloaded free app on the Apple App Store. This is considered a major success for OpenAI, especially in a big market like America. Last year i.e. in 2024, ChatGPT was at number four in the list of App Store, but this time it has directly reached the first position.
This clearly shows that in 2025, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an important part of people’s everyday life. People are now using ChatGPT for many purposes like studying, work, coding, writing content and making presentations.
Although ChatGPT is the most downloaded free app, but Open AI now faces a big challenge. The company wants more and more free users to take its paid or premium plans. For this reason, OpenAI has also launched a new ChatGPT Go plan. In fact, companies are spending billions of dollars in running AI models, in such a situation it has become necessary to earn profits.
People’s interest in AI has increased significantly in 2025. This is the reason why along with ChatGPT, AI apps like Google Gemini are also making a place in the top list of the App Store. It is believed that this trend may accelerate further by 2026, because AI models are becoming smarter, more powerful and automated than before.
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Meanwhile, OpenAI has also started rolling out ChatGPT 5.2. This new model has been specially designed for professional work. The company claims that ChatGPT 5.2 is better than before in creating presentations, coding and handling complex tasks.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also talked about a ‘Code Red’ like situation within the company, which means that ChatGPT updates may be seen more rapidly in the future. Overall, ChatGPT becoming number-1 shows that the era of AI has now fully started.
