🗞️ a16z Top 100 Gen AI Apps List Released
- NewBits Media
- Aug 31
- 3 min read
On August 27, 2025, a16z published the fifth edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, a benchmark for tracking the most widely used AI-first applications across web and mobile. The 2025 list highlights a stabilizing ecosystem, with Google Gemini challenging ChatGPT, new entrants like Lovable climbing fast, and China’s platforms gaining significant global traction.
🏗️ Methodology:
Ranked Top 50 web (Similarweb visits) + Top 50 mobile (Sensor Tower MAUs). AI-first only (so tools that merely “added AI,” like Canva/Notion, aren’t included).
🧭 What’s New
🧩 Ecosystem is stabilizing: 11 newcomers on web (down from 17 last spring).
📱 Mobile is more original: 14 newcomers as app stores clean out “copycat” apps.
🔷 Google split: 4 Google AI products now ranked separately → total newcomers 15 (those 4 would’ve ranked before if measurable).
✨ Highlights
📱 Assistant race (mobile vs web): Gemini mobile is #2; Grok jumps fast on mobile; Meta AI slower start; Perplexity keeps climbing.
💻 Web dips/gains: DeepSeek cooled from its Feb peak; Perplexity and Claude up.
🌏 China Snapshot
Strong showing on web Top-20 (Quark, Doubao, Kimi).
Many China-built apps now popular globally (some even blocked in China).
Video tools from China have led quality; Veo 3 is the first strong U.S. counter.
🧩 Vibe Coding Trends
Lovable & Replit debut; Bolt just shy (Brink List).
User spending sticks around; builders publish via replit.app / lovable.app; infra like Supabase riding the wave.
🏆 Consistent All-Stars
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, Leonardo, Veed, Cutout, Eleven Labs, Photoroom, Gamma, Quillbot, Civitai, Hugging Face
→ Mix of proprietary, API/open-source, and aggregators; a couple are still bootstrapped.
🌱 Biggest Movers
Lovable rockets to #22 (web).
PolyBuzz and Pixverse graduate into the mobile Top-50.
🔎 Key Insights from the 2025 a16z Top 100 Gen AI Apps
The 2025 a16z Top 100 Gen AI Apps reflects a stabilizing ecosystem with fewer new entrants but stronger global adoption. Google’s Gemini is closing in on ChatGPT, Grok is surging on mobile, and Perplexity and Claude continue to climb. China’s influence is also notable, with apps like Quark, Doubao, and Kimi anchoring the global rankings.
🔗 The 2025 Lists (alphabetical):
🌐 Web Top 50:
Adot AI · Candy Network · Character.ai · ChatGPT · Civitai · Claude · CrushOn · Cursor · Cutout · DeepAI · Deepseek · Doubao · Eleven Labs · Gamma · Gemini · Google AI Studio · Google Labs · Grok · Hailuo · Hugging Face · JanitorAI · Joi · Juicychat · Kimi · KlingAI · Leonardo · Lovable · Manus · Meta AI · Midjourney · Monica · NotebookLM · OurDream.ai · Perplexity · Photoroom · Pixelcut · Poe · Polybuzz · Quark · Quillbot · Qwen · Remaker · Remove.bg · Replit · SeaArt · Spicychat · Suno · Turboscribe · Veed · ZeroGPT
📲 Mobile Top 50:
Adobe Express · AI Chatbot – Nova · AI Gallery · AI Photo Editor – Polish · AI Video Editor – VivaCut · Airbrush (Meitu) · B612 AI Photo & Video · Background Eraser · Baidu AI Search · BeautyCam · BeautyPlus · Brainly · Character AI · ChatGPT · Cici · DeepSeek · Doubao · Edits (Instagram) · Epik · FaceApp · Facemoji · Filmora · Gauth · Google Gemini · Grok · Hi Translate · Hypic · Meitu · Microsoft Bing Search · Microsoft Copilot · Microsoft Edge · Mivi · Naver Papago · Peachy · Perplexity · Photomath · Photoroom · Photoshop Express · PictureThis · Pixverse · PlantNet · PolyBuzz: Chat with AI Friends
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