AI friend app statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 9 AI friend app sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google281Kvisits-59% vs a year ago
• Google searches2.4Ksearchesfor "ai friend app"
• Most visited site68.8KvisitsKindroid, 24% of all
• Expected in November275Kvisits-2% vs last month

• 281,214 Google visits went to the 9 AI friend app sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 59% fewer than a year earlier.
• Shrinking: the AI friend app market is shrinking, but name searches are up 15% since October 2025.
• 2,400 searches a month for “ai friend app” worldwide, 42% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 24% of all visits go to Kindroid, the most-visited AI friend app; the five most-visited take 92%.
• 34.9% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, the United Kingdom and Canada.
• 275,466 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 252K and 299K.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, October 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Shrinking, but name searches are up 15% since October 2025.

Over two years, visits went from 458K in November 2024 to a high of 858K in December 2024, and stand at 281K in October 2026. Five sites take 92% of visits, so one ranking change at the top moves the whole line.

Visits, year on year

-59%

Visits, last six months

-37%

Name searches, US

+15%

Busiest month (2 years)

December 2024, 858K visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are up, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI friend app market demand page

“ai friend app” is searched about 2,400 times a month worldwide, 42% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai friend app” until June 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 42% of the searches but only 34.9% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, United Kingdom and Canada.

Searches a month, US

1,000

Google Trends now

16/100 -64%

Five-year peak

82/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is lower than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

Open the AI friend app search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago, but more people searching by name, and the next six months look like a slide.

The losers, led by Kuki AI, lost most of their search visits (-97%).

Visits vs September 2026

-13%

Biggest gain this month

Replika +9%

Biggest loss this month

Kindroid -25%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Kindroid’s +67% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI friend app monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look down.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months. November is usually a busier month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in November 2026

275,466 visits

Likely range

252K to 299K

Expected in May 2027

253K -10%

Past forecasts in range

5 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 5 times.

Open the AI friend app monthly forecast page

The most visited is Kindroid, with 68,809 visits a month, 24% of all visits.

Kindroid and Anima together hold 44% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 4 sites share 8%.

Top five sites

92% of all visits

Visits from the US

34.9%

Largest markets outside the US

India, United Kingdom and Canada

Sites tracked

9

Miles explains

Kindroid alone has 24% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI friend app industry report page

Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

sites.csv has one row per site: its Google US position for “ai friend app”, Tranco rank, Chrome UX tier, visits from Google worldwide and in the US, name searches, Domain Rating and referring domains, with the month each figure covers. market.csv has the monthly totals across the tracked sites: visits worldwide and in the US, name searches and referring domains. Blanks mean the source had no figure, never zero.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Friend App Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-friend-app