Is the AI therapist app market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinkingbut name searches are up 36% since October 2025
- Visits, year on year, without Perchance AI Image Generator
- -21%
- Visits, last six months
- +0.8%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +36%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 18 AI therapist 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 4.4 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Perchance AI Image Generator; without it, visits are down 21% on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 26% in a year while another lost 98% 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 therapist app market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 18 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google4.4Mvisits+21% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US99.8Ksearches+36% vs October 2025
- Top five sites99.6%of visitsfastest grower: Perchance AI Image Generator
- Expected in November4.6Mvisitslikely 4.2M to 4.9M
- The AI therapist app market is shrinking as of October 2026, but name searches are up 36% since October 2025.
- The 18 AI therapist app sites RankDude tracks got 4,439,214 visits from Google search in October 2026, 21% more visits than in October 2025, or 21% fewer without Perchance AI Image Generator.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 99,820 times in September 2026, 36% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI therapist app sites get 99.6% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI therapist app site over the year: Perchance AI Image Generator, +26% (3.2M to 4.1M visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: Earkick, -98% (123K to 2.8K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 4.6M visits, likely between 4.2M and 4.9M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI therapist app sites than a year ago?
Up 21% on a year ago; down 3% on September 2026
Only because of Perchance AI Image Generator. The 18 tracked AI therapist app sites got 4,439,214 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 21% more visits than in October 2025, or 21% fewer without Perchance AI Image Generator, and 3% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was June 2026, with 4,739,715 visits; October 2026 is 6% below it. In the US, visits were 1,421,715, up 8% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI therapist app sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
4.4M
+20.5% on a year ago
United States, this month
1.4M
+7.5% on a year ago
Two-year high
4.7M
June 2026
US share of visits
32%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI therapist app sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, Perchance AI Image Generator; without it, visits are down 21% on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI therapist app sites by name?
Up 36% on October 2025; 99.8K name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI therapist app sites 99,820 times in September 2026, 36% 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 therapist” itself gets about 14,800 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI therapist app sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI therapist app sites by name, searches a month
Perchance AI Image Generator90.5K a month
Wysa3.6K a month
FeelBetterBot1.9K a month
Woebot1.3K a month
Wellzy1.0K a month
Youper720 a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 36%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.
3.Which AI therapist app sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 99.6% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.9%
The five most-visited AI therapist app sites get 99.6% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Perchance AI Image Generator, from 3,240,303 to 4,089,004 visits (+26%). Steepest fall: Earkick, from 122,608 to 2,841 visits (-98%).
Growing fastest, year on year
- Perchance AI Image Generator4.1M visits+26%
Headspace (Ebb)235K visits+2%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.