Is the AI roleplay app market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growing
- Visits, year on year, without CrushOn AI
- +50%
- Visits, last six months
- +23%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +29%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 10 AI roleplay app sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 4.3 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, CrushOn AI; without it, visits are up 50% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 861% in a year while another lost 45% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI roleplay app market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 10 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google4.3Mvisits-6% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US1.6Msearches+29% vs October 2025
- Top five sites98.7%of visitsfastest grower: Bubio.ai
- Expected in November3.8Mvisitslikely 3.3M to 4.2M
- The AI roleplay app market is growing as of October 2026.
- The 10 AI roleplay app sites RankDude tracks got 4,303,304 visits from Google search in October 2026, 6% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 50% more without CrushOn AI.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 1,647,060 times in September 2026, 29% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI roleplay app sites get 98.7% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI roleplay app site over the year: Bubio.ai, +861% (5.1K to 49.2K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: CrushOn AI, -45% (2.7M to 1.5M visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 3.8M visits, likely between 3.3M and 4.2M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI roleplay app sites than a year ago?
Down 6% on a year ago; down 8% on September 2026
Only because of CrushOn AI. The 10 tracked AI roleplay app sites got 4,303,304 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 6% fewer visits than in October 2025, or 50% more without CrushOn AI, and 8% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was February 2026, with 5,868,103 visits; October 2026 is 27% below it. In the US, visits were 1,088,227, down 5% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI roleplay app sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
4.3M
-6.3% on a year ago
United States, this month
1.1M
-5.0% on a year ago
Two-year high
5.9M
February 2026
US share of visits
25.3%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago and lower than in September 2026, so the fall is still going. Name searches rose (+29%) and Google Trends interest in the term rose (+32%), so the drop looks like a few big sites losing Google rankings, not people losing interest.
2.Are people searching for AI roleplay app sites by name?
Up 29% on October 2025; 1.6M name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI roleplay app sites 1,647,060 times in September 2026, 29% more searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai roleplay” itself gets about 22,200 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI roleplay app sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI roleplay app sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up while visits are down. People still want these sites; what fell was Google rankings, not interest.
3.Which AI roleplay app sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 98.7% of all visits
The five most-visited AI roleplay app sites get 98.7% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Bubio.ai, from 5,122 to 49,212 visits (+861%). Steepest fall: CrushOn AI, from 2,712,729 to 1,492,455 visits (-45%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Falling fastest, year on year
CrushOn AI1.5M visits-45%
Pinku17.4K visits-40%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.