Gemini mobile adoption has been soaring since August Launching nanobananas Image editor models have received positive comments, especially from users who say that they can now perform complex edits and create realistic images more easily. According to new data provided by App Intelligence app.
Although the month is only half over, Gemini’s app has already hit 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million downloads in August.
Before this month, Gemini had only third place in the third place in the U.S. app stores on January 28, 2025.
Shortly after Nano Banana was released, Gemini arrived at the second place in the U.S. App Store on September 8. It then became the No. 1 app on September 12, and it stayed in second place after knocking Openai’s Chatgpt to No. 2. At this point, there are no other dedicated AI applications in the top 10 in the App Store.

According to AppFigures data, Gemini has also become one of five iPhone apps in 108 countries around the world.
On Google Play, Gemini jumped from the 26th highest app in the U.S. to its second app as of Monday on September 8. But while Android is Google’s own platform, Chatgpt is still at the top of the list at the time of writing.
Google has been touting Gemini growth as more and more mainstream users have been trying new image editing features. For example, Google Gemini and Google Labs VP Josh Woodward Share on x Since the launch of the nanobanana model, the app has gained 23 million users on September 8, who have shared more than 500 million images.
The rapid growth of the app is also driving increased consumer spending.
Of the $6.3 million Gemini generated on iOS devices this year, $1.6 million started in August, with most of them appearing after the release of the Nano Banana model. AppFigures estimates that this is 1,291% higher than the January $115,000 figure.
The app is also expected to match it at least when September doesn’t exceed the August number, as Gemini has made $792,000 so far this month, about half of the total in August.
This year, Gemini’s app has been downloaded 103.7 million times, and has seen 185.4 million downloads so far Launched on Android in February 2024 and Extend to iOS Later that year.