AI friend app market forecast, November 2026

AI friend app forecast: the key numbers for November 2026

• Expected in November275Kvisits-2% vs October
• Likely range252K–299Kvisits in November
• Expected in May 2027253Kvisits-10% six months out
• Forecasts in range5 of 6monthswhen the method was tested

• The AI friend app sites RankDude tracks got 281,214 visits from Google search in October 2026.
• The forecast for November 2026 is 275,466 visits, about the same as October 2026, likely between 252K and 299K.
• That is down on November 2025, when the same sites had 648,442 visits.

In plain words: Tested on the last 6 months, it missed by 5.5% on average.

Tested on

the last 6 months, as if their numbers were unknown

Average miss

5.5%

Inside the range

5 of 6 months

Direction called right

5 of 6 months

Next month

this section scores the real forecast

The backtest, month by month

Each row uses only data from before that month.

Miles explains

5 of 6 in range is honest, not perfect. The biggest miss was October 2026 (-11%), the kind of month when one big site jumps. That’s why the range is wide.

Visits are down on a year ago (-59%), and the last three months were lower than the three before. Name searches are up (+15% since October 2025). Recent months are getting weaker; the forecast expects November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026.

Visits, October 2026

281,214 (-13.3% on the month before, -58.8% on a year ago)

Last 3 months vs the 3 before

-17.6%

24-month peak

858,254 in December 2024

Name searches, US

+15.4% since October 2025

Google Trends, "ai friend app"

16/100 (-64.4% on a year ago)

12-month trend

-7.3% a month; the forecast carries part of the slope, fading

Miles explains

Big green or red bars are usually one site winning or losing a Google ranking, not the whole market moving. What I watch is the last three months against the three before: -18%.

November is usually a bigger month than average (5% above) for searches for “ai friend app”. But the sites’ visits follow rankings more than the calendar, so the pattern is shown and not allowed to move the numbers.

November index

105 (100 = an average month)

On the calendar

Black Friday and Cyber Monday and Thanksgiving (US)

Biggest months

May and September

Quietest months

February, August and October

Used in this forecast?

No: average miss 5.5% as chosen, 5.5% without the pattern, 14.3% always with it

Miles explains

I tested the calendar against the last months and it made the forecast worse (14.3% average miss with it, 5.5% without), so I show it but leave it out.

About 275K visits in November 2026, about the same as October 2026. The likely range is 252K to 299K.

Source: DataForSEO and Google Ads.

By May 2027 the forecast expects about 252,601 visits a month, -10% on the 281,214 of October 2026, so the next six months look like a slide.

The forecast expects Kindroid (+6%), Anima (+11%), Kuki AI (+16%) and Kajiwoto (+25%) to rise, and Replika (-5%), Nomi.ai (-4%) and Pi (-4%) to fall; the rest are within 3% of October 2026. Single sites are harder to forecast than the whole market, so their ranges are wider.

Site-level forecasts for November 2026

Site	October 2026	November 2026 forecast	Range	Change
Kindroid	68,809	72,596	54.7K to 90.5K	+5.5%
Anima	54,716	60,702	46.5K to 74.9K	+10.9%
Replika	51,238	48,560	40.5K to 56.7K	-5.2%
Nomi.ai	44,848	43,011	35.4K to 50.6K	-4.1%
Pi	39,166	37,515	29.1K to 45.9K	-4.2%
SimSimi	18,033	17,507	16.1K to 18.9K	-2.9%
Paradot	2,807	2,827	1.1K to 4.5K	+0.7%
Kuki AI	864	998	549 to 1.4K	+15.5%
Kajiwoto	733	916	687 to 1.1K	+25.0%

Site

• Kindroid

  October 2026

  68,809

  November 2026 forecast

  72,596

  Range

  54.7K to 90.5K

  Change

  +5.5%

• Anima

  October 2026

  54,716

  November 2026 forecast

  60,702

  Range

  46.5K to 74.9K

  Change

  +10.9%

• Replika

  October 2026

  51,238

  November 2026 forecast

  48,560

  Range

  40.5K to 56.7K

  Change

  -5.2%

• Nomi.ai

  October 2026

  44,848

  November 2026 forecast

  43,011

  Range

  35.4K to 50.6K

  Change

  -4.1%

• Pi

  October 2026

  39,166

  November 2026 forecast

  37,515

  Range

  29.1K to 45.9K

  Change

  -4.2%

• SimSimi

  October 2026

  18,033

  November 2026 forecast

  17,507

  Range

  16.1K to 18.9K

  Change

  -2.9%

• Paradot

  October 2026

  2,807

  November 2026 forecast

  2,827

  Range

  1.1K to 4.5K

  Change

  +0.7%

• Kuki AI

  October 2026

  864

  November 2026 forecast

  998

  Range

  549 to 1.4K

  Change

  +15.5%

• Kajiwoto

  October 2026

  733

  November 2026 forecast

  916

  Range

  687 to 1.1K

  Change

  +25.0%

Source: DataForSEO.

Kajiwoto is held to its own range from October 2026. The 9 site forecasts add up to 284,632, more than the market forecast of 275,466 for every tracked site. Each site is forecast from its own months, with the weighting and the seasonal pattern that suited that site best, and the market from the total, so the two need not add up: Kuki AI and Kajiwoto are forecast with the seasonal pattern for November 2026, which the market forecast does not use this month. Read the site figures one at a time, not as a sum.

Miles explains

Kajiwoto has the biggest expected rise (+25%). Single sites are much harder to call than the whole market, so read these as direction, not promises.

What could knock November 2026 off course:

• A big site winning or losing a page-one position for “ai friend app”.
• A Google update.
• A site going offline.
• A news story that spikes interest for a week and then fades.

None of these are in the numbers until they happen, which is why the range exists.