Is the AI app builder market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer■ Neitherbut name searches are up 21% since October 2025
- Visits, year on year
- +2.4%
- Visits, last six months
- -11%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +21%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 55 AI app builder sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 5.3 million visits.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 2313% in a year while another lost 86% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI app builder market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 55 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google5.3Mvisits+2% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US1.1Msearches+21% vs October 2025
- Top five sites59.1%of visitsfastest grower: Base44
- Expected in November5.7Mvisitslikely 5.2M to 6.1M
- The AI app builder market is neither growing nor shrinking as of October 2026, but name searches are up 21% since October 2025.
- The 55 AI app builder sites RankDude tracks got 5,314,408 visits from Google search in October 2026, about the same as in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 1,112,980 times in September 2026, 21% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI app builder sites get 59.1% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI app builder site over the year: Base44, +2313% (16.0K to 387K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Budibase, -86% (46.8K to 6.4K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 5.7M visits, likely between 5.2M and 6.1M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 1 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI app builder sites than a year ago?
About level with a year ago (+2%); down 10% on September 2026
About the same. The 55 tracked AI app builder sites got 5,314,408 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is about the same as in October 2025, and 10% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was December 2024, with 7,156,476 visits; October 2026 is 26% below it. In the US, visits were 561,809, down 17% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI app builder sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
5.3M
+2.4% on a year ago
United States, this month
562K
-16.7% on a year ago
Two-year high
7.2M
December 2024
US share of visits
10.6%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are about level with a year ago. The real changes are between individual sites, shown in section 3.
2.Are people searching for AI app builder sites by name?
Up 21% on October 2025; 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 1,112,980 times in September 2026, 21% more searches than in October 2025. 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
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI app builder sites by name, searches a month
Softr450K a month
Base44368K a month
Replit201K a month
FlutterFlow14.8K a month
Retool14.8K a month
Lovable12.1K a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 21%. 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 59.1% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 77%
The five most-visited AI app builder sites get 59.1% 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 16,019 to 386,562 visits (+2313%). Steepest fall: Budibase, from 46,841 to 6,432 visits (-86%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Falling fastest, year on year
Budibase6.4K visits-86%
Same4.4K visits-81%
Bravo Studio2.6K visits-74%
AppSheet126K visits-72%
Appy Pie27.4K visits-62%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.