Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users

Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users
Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June. 

<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichai <a rel="nofollow" href="https://x.com/newsfromgoogle/status/2087233951031009665?s=46&amp;t=sVvVqfqtrpFRLF39Bfwg9w">announced</a> via X that the Gemini app has become one of the company’s fastest-growing products, recently surpassing 1 billion monthly active users. Pichai also noted it was the 14th Google product to hit the 1 billion mark.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With this rapid growth, Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-app-hits-1-billion-monthly-active-users-record-time-data-shows-2026-06-02/">1 billion monthly active users </a>back in June. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The company has been steadily integrating Gemini across its products, from Search and Workspace to Android and its standalone app. Google’s AI Mode in Search, in particular, has achieved a lot of success, with over 1 billion monthly active users globally. But today’s figure refers specifically to the Gemini app, and does not include AI users from other channels.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/with-gemini-3-5-flash-google-bets-its-next-ai-wave-on-agents-not-chatbots/">Gemini 3.5 Flash</a>, which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Google also shared numbers at how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And Gemini’s growth isn’t limited to Google’s own products. The company says it now has more than 100 million active users on iOS. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The milestone comes right after its Q2 2026 earnings call, where the company celebrated having <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/google-closes-in-on-another-billion-user-product-with-gemini/">over 950 million monthly users</a>, with daily active users tripling this past year. The announcement also comes ahead of its Made by Google event, where it’s expected to have more Gemini-powered features launching across Pixel devices. </p>