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Updated 11/02/2026 · next update 12/01/2026

AI emoji generator market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Canva
-66%
Visits vs September 2026
+6.2%
Name searches vs October 2025
0%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 8 AI emoji generator sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 222 million visits, 4% fewer than a year ago but 6% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 305% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI emoji generator market: the key numbers for October 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 221,891,426 visits from Google in October 2026, 4% fewer than a year ago and 6% more than in September 2026. Canva, which takes 99.8% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (90% of it). Without it, visits would be down 66.2% on a year ago instead of down 4.0%. Canva gained more visits in October 2026 (13,048,805) than the whole market did (13,019,822); without it, visits to the other sites fell 5.7% on September 2026.
  • “ai emoji generator” gets about 1,900 US searches a month. People searched the site names 30,424,730 times in the US in September 2026, about as often as in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai emoji generator”. Canva is the most-visited site.
  • 10% of visits came from the US (6.2% a year ago), then India, Brazil and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 100% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-4%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+6%). Canva, which takes 99.8% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (90% of it). Without it, visits would be down 66.2% on a year ago instead of down 4.0%. Canva gained more visits in October 2026 (13,048,805) than the whole market did (13,019,822); without it, visits to the other sites fell 5.7% on September 2026.

Visits, October 2026
221,891,426 (-4.0% on a year ago, +6.2% on September 2026)
US visits
22,274,292 (+56.1% on a year ago)
24-month peak
257,946,803 in April 2026

WorldVisits a month to AI emoji generator sites, worldwide

0125M250M375M500MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26222M
Low 120MHigh 258MAverage 223M
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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 4% below a year ago, and 14% below the April 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

2How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google about as often as in October 2025 (0%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai emoji generator"
1,900 a month in the US, 4,400 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
30,424,730 in the US (0% since October 2025), 185,139,440 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai emoji generator", United States

01.3K2.5K3.8K5.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26880
Low 880High 4.4KAverage 1.9K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

013M25M38M50MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2630M
Low 11MHigh 30MAverage 25M
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

Miles explains

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

3Who is on Google's first page

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai emoji generator”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai emoji generator”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • Canva
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    280
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 33
    Search visits
    221,411,904
  • Facemoji
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    5,694
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 496
    Search visits
    81,305
  • Designhill
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    68,511
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 8,107
    Search visits
    155,117
  • getimg.ai
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    152,339
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 8,095
    Search visits
    138,760
  • Ima Studio
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    474,071
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 380,490
    Search visits
    55,171
  • Flux AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    577,236
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 81,766
    Search visits
    24,556
  • MakeEmoji
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,353,510
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 123,367
    Search visits
    22,497
  • Chibi.pics
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    2,116

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 8 of 8 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai emoji generator”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Flux AI (+78%); biggest loss: Designhill (-13%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Flux AI
    Sep 26
    13,788
    Oct 26
    24,556
    Change
    +78.1%
  • Canva
    Sep 26
    208,363,099
    Oct 26
    221,411,904
    Change
    +6.3%
  • Facemoji
    Sep 26
    77,820
    Oct 26
    81,305
    Change
    +4.5%

Down this month

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Facemoji
    Oct 25
    4,400
    Sep 26
    6,600
    Change
    +50.0%

Searched less

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 10 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
10% (6.2% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Brazil and Canada
US share of "ai emoji generator" searches
43%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

02.557.510Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2610
Low 3.6High 10Average 7
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    33,182,598
    Share of the measured countries
    54.8%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    14,113,721
    Share of the measured countries
    23.3%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    4,073,728
    Share of the measured countries
    6.7%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    3,836,502
    Share of the measured countries
    6.3%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    2,029,775
    Share of the measured countries
    3.4%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    1,801,660
    Share of the measured countries
    3%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    1,490,201
    Share of the measured countries
    2.5%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 10 in every 100 visits. India alone is 54.8% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+13815%).

The tracked sites had 544,085 referring domains between them in October 2026, +13815.2% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 53. Canva has the strongest link profile at DR 93.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.