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Updated 10/21/2026 · next update 11/01/2026

Is the AI app builder market growing or shrinking?

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The answer▲ Growingbut visits are down 6.4% over the last six months

Visits, year on year
+27%
Visits, last six months
-6.4%
Name searches, year on year
+22%

Every month I add up the Google visits to the 51 AI app builder sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In September 2026 they got about 5.8 million visits.

The total hides very different stories: one site grew 4347% in a year while another lost 88% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for October 2026.

AI app builder market demand: key numbers, September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 51 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

  • The AI app builder market is growing as of September 2026, but visits are down 6.4% over the last six months.
  • The 51 AI app builder sites RankDude tracks got 5,752,713 visits from Google search in September 2026, 27% more visits than in September 2025.
  • People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 1,110,970 times in September 2026, 22% more searches than in September 2025.
  • The five most-visited AI app builder sites get 64.9% of all visits.
  • Fastest-growing AI app builder site over the year: Base44, +4347% (8.7K to 389K visits a month).
  • Steepest fall over the year: Budibase, -88% (58.1K to 6.9K visits a month).
  • Forecast for October 2026: about 5.7M visits, likely between 5.3M and 6.2M.

Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 21 October 2026 by RankDude.

1.Are more people visiting AI app builder sites than a year ago?

Up 27% on a year ago; about level with August 2026 (-1%)

Yes. The 51 tracked AI app builder sites got 5,752,713 visits from Google search in September 2026. That is 27% more visits than in September 2025, and about the same as in August 2026.

The highest month of the last two years was February 2026, with 6,297,490 visits; September 2026 is 9% below it. In the US, visits were 671,587, up 20% on a year ago.

WorldVisits a month to AI app builder sites, worldwide, two years

02.5M5.0M7.5M10MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 265.8M
Low 4.1MHigh 6.3MAverage 5.2M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Worldwide, this month

5.8M

+26.6% on a year ago

United States, this month

672K

+19.5% on a year ago

Two-year high

6.3M

February 2026

US share of visits

11.7%

of worldwide visits

Miles explains

More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI app builder sites through Google.

2.Are people searching for AI app builder sites by name?

Up 22% on a year ago; 1.1M name searches a month in the US

Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI app builder sites 1,110,970 times in September 2026, 22% more searches than a year earlier. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai app builder” itself gets about 12,100 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).

USName searches a month for AI app builder sites, US

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MSep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Sep 261.1M
Low 867KHigh 1.2MAverage 1.0M
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

USMost searched AI app builder sites by name, searches a month

  1. Softr450K a month
  2. Base44368K a month
  3. Replit201K a month
  4. FlutterFlow14.8K a month
  5. Retool14.8K a month
  6. Lovable12.1K a month

Miles explains

Name searches are up 22%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.

3.Which AI app builder sites grew, and which shrank?

The five most-visited sites hold 64.9% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 82.4%

The five most-visited AI app builder sites get 64.9% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Base44, from 8,741 to 388,705 visits (+4347%). Steepest fall: Budibase, from 58,075 to 6,873 visits (-88%).

Growing fastest, year on year

  1. Base44389K visits+4347%
  2. Emergent220K visits+1664%
  3. v0290K visits+491%
  4. FlutterFlow658K visits+298%
  5. Lovable666K visits+296%

Falling fastest, year on year

  1. Budibase6.9K visits-88%
  2. Same4.8K visits-79%
  3. Bravo Studio2.6K visits-77%
  4. AppSheet147K visits-66%
  5. Bubble156K visits-55%

Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.