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Updated 10/15/2026 · next update 11/01/2026

AI Image Editor Industry Report, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without remove.bg
-8.3%
Visits, last six months
-15%
Name searches vs October 2025
-12%

Every key number on the AI image editor market for September 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 68 sites I measure got about 122 million visits from Google, 5% more than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 72.3% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for October 2026.

Published 15 October 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI image editor industry report: the key numbers for September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 68 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    122,079,022
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +5.0% year on year, -2.6% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    5,205,559
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -15.5% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    4.3%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    2,770,460
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -12.3% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    29,050,340
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -31.7% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai image editor”, US
    Value
    201,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai image editor”, worldwide
    Value
    550,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Visits the term “ai image editor” sends to tracked sites, US
    Value
    2,076
    Period and basis
    September 2026; sum of per-site estimates
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    511,354
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +4.7% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    72.3%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    85.3%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai image editor”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    September 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai image editor”, US
    Value
    3
    Period and basis
    September 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out AirBrush, Claid.ai, Imagen, Lensa, Pebblely and Perfectly Clear: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+5%), and September 2026 was about the same as August 2026 (-3%). remove.bg gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 8.3% on a year ago instead of up 5.0%.

WorldVisits a month to AI image editor sites, worldwide

050M100M150M200MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26122M
Low 116MHigh 181MAverage 138M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 5% above a year ago, and 33% below the December 2024 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 12% less often than in October 2025 (-12%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

01.3M2.5M3.8M5.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 262.8M
Low 2.1MHigh 3.2MAverage 2.8M
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 12%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 4 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 21 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

02.557.510Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 264.3
Low 4.2High 7.5Average 5
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    41,439,963
    Share of the measured countries
    52.7%
  • Indonesia
    Search visits a month
    17,904,519
    Share of the measured countries
    22.8%
  • Philippines
    Search visits a month
    6,688,181
    Share of the measured countries
    8.5%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    3,528,378
    Share of the measured countries
    4.5%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    1,198,321
    Share of the measured countries
    1.5%
  • Mexico
    Search visits a month
    1,157,522
    Share of the measured countries
    1.5%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    902,226
    Share of the measured countries
    1.1%
  • Spain
    Search visits a month
    802,982
    Share of the measured countries
    1%
  • Japan
    Search visits a month
    775,672
    Share of the measured countries
    1%
  • Ukraine
    Search visits a month
    596,920
    Share of the measured countries
    0.8%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 4 in every 100 visits. India alone is 52.7% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

remove.bg gets the most visits, remove.bg is the name people search for most, and Fotor is the highest-placed tracked site on Google for “ai image editor”, at position 18. The five most-visited sites take 72.3% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • remove.bg
    Visits a month
    41,408,435
  • Picsart
    Visits a month
    20,053,887
  • Photoroom
    Visits a month
    15,542,744
  • Cutout.Pro
    Visits a month
    5,944,199
  • Pixlr
    Visits a month
    5,345,796
  • Pixelcut
    Visits a month
    4,326,382
  • Fotor
    Visits a month
    4,085,383
  • Media.io
    Visits a month
    2,784,538
  • Photopea
    Visits a month
    2,330,077
  • PicWish
    Visits a month
    2,310,011

By US brand-name searches

  • remove.bg
    Searches a month
    1,220,000
  • Photopea
    Searches a month
    550,000
  • Pixlr
    Searches a month
    246,000
  • VSCO
    Searches a month
    246,000
  • Picsart
    Searches a month
    201,000
  • Photoroom
    Searches a month
    33,100
  • PicMonkey
    Searches a month
    27,100
  • BeFunky
    Searches a month
    22,200
  • Fotor
    Searches a month
    22,200
  • Facetune
    Searches a month
    18,100

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 72.3% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Evoto (+274%); the steepest fall was at Mokker AI (-98%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Evoto
    A year ago
    80,984
    Now
    303,210
    Change
    +274%
  • Slazzer
    A year ago
    888,983
    Now
    1,757,645
    Change
    +98%
  • Imagen
    A year ago
    99,617
    Now
    166,170
    Change
    +67%
  • Pokecut
    A year ago
    134,841
    Now
    224,104
    Change
    +66%
  • Photoroom
    A year ago
    10,448,498
    Now
    15,542,744
    Change
    +49%
  • remove.bg
    A year ago
    28,278,310
    Now
    41,408,435
    Change
    +46%
  • Picsart
    A year ago
    14,882,228
    Now
    20,053,887
    Change
    +35%
  • Let's Enhance
    A year ago
    260,324
    Now
    319,173
    Change
    +23%

Declining

  • Mokker AI
    A year ago
    53,701
    Now
    1,274
    Change
    -98%
  • FilterPixel
    A year ago
    22,708
    Now
    923
    Change
    -96%
  • Hotpot.ai
    A year ago
    488,391
    Now
    49,754
    Change
    -90%
  • Flair.ai
    A year ago
    80,298
    Now
    12,181
    Change
    -85%
  • ACDSee Photo Studio
    A year ago
    52,024
    Now
    8,099
    Change
    -84%
  • PortraitPro
    A year ago
    18,650
    Now
    3,047
    Change
    -84%
  • Aftershoot
    A year ago
    68,936
    Now
    11,650
    Change
    -83%
  • Lensa
    A year ago
    20,753
    Now
    3,849
    Change
    -82%

Worldwide search visits, September 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Image Editor Industry Report, September 2026”, published 15 October 2026, https://rankdude.ai/ai-image-editor/statistics/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.