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’ll be able to 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 sturdy curiosity on iOS.
It’s much less fashionable on Android, which may level to regional reputation (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 strong progress momentum, based mostly on obtain numbers no 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 energetic customers in January, and based mostly on these stats, it’s seemingly on monitor to exceed 350 million by Meta’s subsequent efficiency replace, which is scheduled for the tip of this month. For comparability, X lately reported that it now has 600 million month-to-month actives.
So it nonetheless has a method to go, however Threads continues to be seemingly rising at a gradual charge.
When it comes to different app traits, ChatGPT, as famous, stays fashionable, 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 pretty much 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 bettering, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how lengthy it might probably maintain onto that spot.
Curiosity in Temu additionally stays excessive, although its costs will quickly be going up because of Trump’s tariffs (or possibly due to this), whereas TikTok dropped down the rating, regardless that 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 traits present that Threads is rising, and ChatGPT stays the important thing AI device of selection.
