9 October, according to the new data from Appfigures, an applied intelligence provider OpenAI ofVideo Generation Application Sora After hitting the top of the US App Store, strictly speaking, it's outperformed the first week of the iOS platform ChatGPTI don't know. According to the data, Sora obtained about 627,000 iOS downloads in the first seven days after it went online, while ChatGPT downloaded 660,000 iOS downloads in the first week of its release。
However, this comparison is not entirely fair, because ChatGPT was on line only in the United States during the first week of the launch, and Sora's launch covered both United States and Canadian markets. Nevertheless, Appfigures points out that Canada has contributed about 45,000 downloads. If only data from the U.S. market are compared, Sora's release scale is still the same as 96% when ChatGPT was released。
It is worth noting that Sora is still an invitation-only application, while ChatGPT is open to the public at the beginning of its launch. So, Sora's achievement is more gold。
On the first day on the line, Sora quickly achieved about 56,000 installations, rapidly climbing to the third place in the United States App Store's “total application list”. By October 3rd (Friday), it had risen to 1st place. This strong momentum has enabled Sora to go beyond the initial performance of other mainstream AI applications, including Claude of Anthropic and Copilot of Microsoft, and to match the performance of the Grok application launched under Elon Mask ' s xAI。
1AI noted that the data of Appfigures were also corroborated by a large number of user-sharing in social media. With a new Sora 2 video model, Sora allows users to generate a high-level deepfake video, almost everywhere. Some users even used the technology to create false images of the dead and to provoke ethical controversy. The late actor Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, recently publicly called on the public to stop sending her a father's image from AI。
According to Appfigures, the growth of Sora users has remained stable since 30 September 2025. The daily downloads from the iOS platform peaked on October 1, 2025, with a single download of up to 107,800 times. After a slight fall, it remained at a low of 84,400 on 6 October and recorded 98,500 on 4 October。
While the number of downloads has decreased in recent days compared with the early days of publication, this data is still significant for the application of a paragraph that is not yet fully open and remains subject to an invitation mechanism。