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

AI Productivity Tools Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growingbut visits are down 26% since December 2025

Visits, year on year, without Booking.com
+9.1%
Visits, last six months
-24%
Name searches vs October 2025
+28%

Every key number on the AI productivity tools market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 63 sites I measure got about 262 million visits from Google, 25% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 99.1% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI productivity tools industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 63 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    261,737,916
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -25.3% year on year, +4.1% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    19,139,654
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -42.1% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    7.3%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    2,677,210
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +28.3% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    13,825,000
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +37.6% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai productivity tools”, US
    Value
    1,300
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai productivity tools”, worldwide
    Value
    3,600
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    872,157
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (57 of 63 sites measured); first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    99.1%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    99.7%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai productivity tools”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai productivity tools”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Char, Fathom, Fellow, Fellow, Grain, Granola, Sally, Scribbl, Shadow, Sonnet AI and Superpowered: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-25%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+4%). Booking.com, which takes 79.6% of all the visits, lost more visits on its own than the whole market lost in a year. Without it, visits would be up 9.1% on a year ago instead of down 25.3%.

WorldVisits a month to AI productivity tools sites, worldwide

0250M500M750M1000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26262M
Low 203MHigh 521MAverage 338M
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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 25% below a year ago, and 50% below the January 2025 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 28% more often than in October 2025 (+28%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

01.3M2.5M3.8M5.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 262.7M
Low 1.7MHigh 2.9MAverage 2.3M
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are up 28%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 7 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 267.3
Low 6.8High 13Average 9
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    20,675,156
    Share of the measured countries
    29.8%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    13,102,718
    Share of the measured countries
    18.9%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    10,269,956
    Share of the measured countries
    14.8%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    7,246,670
    Share of the measured countries
    10.5%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    7,075,000
    Share of the measured countries
    10.2%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    5,742,937
    Share of the measured countries
    8.3%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    5,189,307
    Share of the measured countries
    7.5%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 7 in every 100 visits. India alone is 29.8% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Booking.com gets the most visits, Booking.com is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai productivity tools”. The five most-visited sites take 99.1% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 99.1% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was iMean AI (+2352%); the steepest fall was at Fellow (-100%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • iMean AI
    A year ago
    13,837
    Now
    339,230
    Change
    +2352%
  • Fyxer
    A year ago
    5,661
    Now
    55,308
    Change
    +877%
  • Alike
    A year ago
    8,952
    Now
    44,340
    Change
    +395%
  • Plaud
    A year ago
    74,669
    Now
    223,341
    Change
    +199%
  • Stippl
    A year ago
    15,004
    Now
    26,427
    Change
    +76%
  • Fathom AI Notetaker
    A year ago
    28,987
    Now
    39,778
    Change
    +37%
  • Wanderlog
    A year ago
    22,471,878
    Now
    28,332,707
    Change
    +26%
  • Mindtrip
    A year ago
    15,233,691
    Now
    18,375,958
    Change
    +21%

Declining

  • Fellow
    A year ago
    47,766
    Now
    2
    Change
    -100%
  • Superpowered
    A year ago
    5,803
    Now
    104
    Change
    -98%
  • Fathom
    A year ago
    53,801
    Now
    7,168
    Change
    -87%
  • TripPlanner AI
    A year ago
    79,601
    Now
    11,465
    Change
    -86%
  • Sembly AI
    A year ago
    44,883
    Now
    7,335
    Change
    -84%
  • Notta
    A year ago
    1,629,652
    Now
    332,935
    Change
    -80%
  • Wonderplan
    A year ago
    27,905
    Now
    6,257
    Change
    -78%
  • Krisp
    A year ago
    365,339
    Now
    84,311
    Change
    -77%

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Productivity Tools Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-productivity-tools/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.