Is the AI emoji generator market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year, without Canva
- -66%
- Visits, last six months
- -14%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- 0%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 8 AI emoji generator 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 222 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Canva; without it, visits are down 66% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 305% in a year while another lost 85% 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 emoji generator market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 8 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google222Mvisits-4% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US30Msearches0% vs October 2025
- Top five sites100%of visitsfastest grower: Facemoji
- Expected in November220Mvisitslikely 202M to 238M
- The AI emoji generator market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 8 AI emoji generator sites RankDude tracks got 221,891,426 visits from Google search in October 2026, 4% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 66% fewer without Canva.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 30,424,730 times in September 2026, about the same as in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI emoji generator sites get 100% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI emoji generator site over the year: Facemoji, +305% (20.1K to 81.3K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: getimg.ai, -85% (939K to 139K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 220M visits, likely between 202M and 238M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI emoji generator sites than a year ago?
Down 4% on a year ago; up 6% on September 2026
No. The 8 tracked AI emoji generator sites got 221,891,426 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 4% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 66% fewer without Canva, and 6% more visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was April 2026, with 257,946,803 visits; October 2026 is 14% below it. In the US, visits were 22,274,292, up 56% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI emoji generator sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
222M
-4.0% on a year ago
United States, this month
22M
+56.1% on a year ago
Two-year high
258M
April 2026
US share of visits
10%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago, but the fall looks like it has stopped: October 2026 was up on September 2026. Google Trends interest in the term fell (-61%), but name searches did not, so some interest has cooled.
2.Are people searching for AI emoji generator sites by name?
About level with October 2025 (0%); 30M name searches a month in the US
About as many as before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI emoji generator sites 30,424,730 times in September 2026, about the same as 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 emoji generator” itself gets about 1,900 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI emoji generator sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI emoji generator sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are level, so the regular users are still there.
3.Which AI emoji generator sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 100% of all visits
The five most-visited AI emoji generator sites get 100% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Facemoji, from 20,064 to 81,305 visits (+305%). Steepest fall: getimg.ai, from 939,208 to 138,760 visits (-85%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Facemoji81.3K visits+305%
Falling fastest, year on year
getimg.ai139K visits-85%
Flux AI24.6K visits-82%
Designhill155K visits-45%
MakeEmoji22.5K visits-43%
Canva221M visits-4%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.