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

AI productivity tools market, 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 vs September 2026
+4.1%
Name searches vs October 2025
+28%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 63 AI productivity tools sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 262 million visits, 25% fewer than a year ago but 4% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 2352% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

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

AI productivity tools 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 261,737,916 visits from Google in October 2026, 25% fewer than a year ago and 4% more than in September 2026. 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%.
  • “ai productivity tools” gets about 1,300 US searches a month. People searched the site names 2,677,210 times in the US in September 2026, 28% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai productivity tools”. Booking.com is the most-visited site.
  • 7.3% of visits came from the US (9.4% a year ago), then India, Germany and United Kingdom. The five most-visited sites took 99.1% of all visits.

1How many visits

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%.

Visits, October 2026
261,737,916 (-25.3% on a year ago, +4.1% on September 2026)
US visits
19,139,654 (-42.1% on a year ago)
24-month peak
520,701,470 in January 2025

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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai productivity tools"
1,300 a month in the US, 3,600 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
2,677,210 in the US (+28.3% since October 2025), 13,825,000 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai productivity tools", United States

06251.3K1.9K2.5KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.0K
Low 480High 2.4KAverage 1.2K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

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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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 up 28%, 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 productivity tools”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • Booking.com
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    291
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 20
    Search visits
    208,428,966
  • Calendly
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    416
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 33
    Search visits
    546,167
  • Notion AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,411
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 154
    Search visits
    3,660,815
  • Granola
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    5,329
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,880
    Search visits
    37,457
  • Otter
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    7,734
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 990
    Search visits
    198,670
  • Krisp
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    10,396
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 708
    Search visits
    84,311
  • Read AI
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    16,061
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,513
    Search visits
    83,678
  • Fireflies
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    19,542
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,278
    Search visits
    86,211
  • Fathom
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    19,657
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,443
    Search visits
    7,168
  • Wanderlog
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    20,187
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,004
    Search visits
    28,332,707
  • Plaud
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    27,001
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 3,021
    Search visits
    223,341
  • Tactiq
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    35,483
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 457
    Search visits
    386,003
  • tl;dv
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    42,469
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 3,958
    Search visits
    101,913
  • Fellow
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    48,064
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 5,336
    Search visits
    2
  • Mindtrip
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    50,785
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,608
    Search visits
    18,375,958

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 63 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Stippl (+303%); biggest loss: Read AI (-38%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Stippl
    Sep 26
    6,551
    Oct 26
    26,427
    Change
    +303.4%
  • Summary AI
    Sep 26
    13,621
    Oct 26
    24,045
    Change
    +76.5%
  • Noota
    Sep 26
    22,591
    Oct 26
    33,039
    Change
    +46.2%
  • Plantrip
    Sep 26
    19,666
    Oct 26
    26,551
    Change
    +35.0%
  • tl;dv
    Sep 26
    77,153
    Oct 26
    101,913
    Change
    +32.1%
  • iMean AI
    Sep 26
    265,940
    Oct 26
    339,230
    Change
    +27.6%

Down this month

  • Read AI
    Sep 26
    133,814
    Oct 26
    83,678
    Change
    -37.5%
  • Leexi
    Sep 26
    8,559
    Oct 26
    5,589
    Change
    -34.7%
  • Meeting.ai
    Sep 26
    12,984
    Oct 26
    8,882
    Change
    -31.6%
  • Otter
    Sep 26
    265,705
    Oct 26
    198,670
    Change
    -25.2%
  • Fathom AI Notetaker
    Sep 26
    51,525
    Oct 26
    39,778
    Change
    -22.8%
  • Sally
    Sep 26
    10,167
    Oct 26
    8,099
    Change
    -20.3%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Plaud
    Oct 25
    40,500
    Sep 26
    90,500
    Change
    +123.5%
  • Booking.com
    Oct 25
    450,000
    Sep 26
    1,000,000
    Change
    +122.2%
  • Plantrip
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    2,400
    Change
    +84.6%
  • Wanderlog
    Oct 25
    49,500
    Sep 26
    74,000
    Change
    +49.5%
  • Vacay
    Oct 25
    2,900
    Sep 26
    3,600
    Change
    +24.1%
  • Summary AI
    Oct 25
    6,600
    Sep 26
    8,100
    Change
    +22.7%

Searched less

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 7 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
7.3% (9.4% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Germany and United Kingdom
US share of "ai productivity tools" searches
36%

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

6Links and ratings

The tracked sites had 872,157 referring domains between them in October 2026 (57 of the 63 sites measured); this is the first reading, so there is no year-on-year figure yet. The average Domain Rating is 55. Calendly has the strongest link profile at DR 95.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.