Most of that total, $2.5 billion, was spent in 2025 alone, mobile analytics and intelligence platform Appfigures said in a Thursday (Dec. 18) post on X.
The 2025 total is 408% higher than 2024’s, according to the post.
The speed with which the ChatGPT mobile app reached the $3 billion milestone in mobile consumer spending was faster than TikTok and major streaming apps, according to the post.
It was reported in August that Appfigures found that the ChatGPT mobile app was earning more than six times as much revenue as it did last year.
Through July, the AI chatbot app for iOS and Android devices had made $1.35 billion this year, up from the $174 million it made during the same seventh-month period in 2024.
The second-ranked app in this category, xAI’s Grok, made $25.6 million during the first seven months of 2025.
The figures in the August report include only the spending of consumers who paid for these AI assistants via a mobile app store; they do not include subscriptions on the web or the AI companies’ other sources of revenue.
It was reported in November that OpenAI expects ChatGPT to have at least 220 million paid subscribers by 2030, up from 35 million today.
The AI startup also projects that the percentage of weekly users of the AI assistant who become paid subscribers will grow to 8.5% by 2030, up from 5% currently.
OpenAI expects about 20% of its revenue to come from new products related to shopping and advertising. For example, the recently released personal shopping assistant for ChatGPT could enable monetization through ads or commissions.
The company announced in October the launch of a feature called Apps in ChatGPT that allows users to chat with several third-party apps while in conversation with the chatbot.
OpenAI also unveiled an Apps SDK that enables developers to build these kinds of apps.
“You can start with an outline and ask Canva to transform it into a slide deck, or take a course with Coursera and ask ChatGPT to elaborate on something in the video as you watch,” OpenAI said at the time in a press release.
