Top 100 AI Tools Dominating Global Use in Summer 2025: Discover the Leaders

The investment firm Andreessen Horowitz has released the 5th edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, illustrating the evolution of tools and applications of generative AI over two and a half years. While ChatGPT continues to dominate the field, other platforms and startups are making significant strides.

The generative AI market stabilizes

According to Andreessen Horowitz, the generative AI applications ecosystem is beginning to stabilize. The report notes a decrease in new entries in the top 50 web platforms and products. Only 11 AI tools are listed as “new entries”, compared to 17 in the previous May ranking. There are slightly more new entrants on mobile, as “App Stores have cracked down on ChatGPT imitators, thus paving the way for more original mobile applications”.

Within this ecosystem, however, ChatGPT still significantly dominates, ranking first in both the top 50 web and mobile in terms of visits and monthly active users. Following ChatGPT is Google’s Gemini, and then a plethora of applications ranging from AI assistants for writing, online research, visual generation, to vibe coding platforms, with Lovable making a notable entry at 23rd place.

The top 10 AI tools most used on the web and mobile

Below are the top 10 generative AI platforms and tools as per data collected by Andreessen Horowitz from Similarweb and SensorTower.

The 10 most used AI tools on the web (see image above):

1. ChatGPT
2. Gemini
3. DeepSeek
4. Grok
5. Character.ai
6. Perplexity
7. Claude
8. JanitorAI
9. Quark
10. Google AI Studio

The 10 most used AI tools on mobile:

1. ChatGPT
2. Gemini
3. AI Gallery
4. Doubao
5. Microsoft Edge
6. Remini
7. Baidu AI Search
8. DeepSeek
9. Meitu
10. Perplexity

Andreessen Horowitz clarifies that platforms “incorporating significant but not native generative AI features, such as Canva and Notion, are not included” in the rankings.

The rise of “All Stars” AI apps

The investment firm has also compiled a list of AI tools defined as “All Stars,” due to their presence in the top 50 web in each of the five editions of the study. Fourteen platforms make up this elite group:

• ChatGPT
• Character.ai
• Civitai
• Leonardo.Ai
• ElevenLabs
• Gamma
• Hugging Face
• Veed
• Midjourney
• Perplexity
• Photoroom
• Poe
• QuillBot
• Cutout.pro

Of these 14 All Stars companies, 5 use proprietary models, 7 utilize models available via API or open source, and 2 are model aggregators.

What’s next for AI heavyweights?

ChatGPT remains well ahead, but its competitors are organizing. Google now has four products in the web rankings. Gemini ranks second with about 12% of ChatGPT’s traffic, while AI Studio enters the top 10 and NotebookLM continues to advance. Google Labs, the public showcase of experiments, remains in the top 40, bolstered by the launch of the Veo 3 video model.

xAI also scores with Grok, which appears in fourth position on the web and, according to the study, already boasts more than 20 million active users on mobile, driven by the launch of version 4 of the chatbot. DeepSeek, long seen as a credible challenger, experiences a setback, with its usage down 22% on mobile and more than 40% on the web since February. Finally, Meta struggles to make a mark in this landscape, with an assistant relegated beyond the 40th place and absent from mobile usage.

China, meanwhile, asserts itself as an indispensable hub. Nearly half of the top 50 mobile apps are developed in the country, particularly around photo and video. The dynamic is twofold: some platforms concentrate their audience mainly in China, where access to ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity is restricted, while others are now massively used abroad despite being blocked in their domestic market.

The enduring presence of vibe coding

Vibe coding is no longer just a curiosity. While in April 2025, only Bolt appeared in the rankings, Lovable and Replit have now replaced it in the main list, although the former remains just outside the top 50. Consumption data from the United States shows that users not only maintain their subscriptions but even increase their spending several months after signing up, evidence of sustained engagement.

The rise of vibe coding also benefits a whole ecosystem of related tools. Projects created via Replit or Lovable generate their own traffic. Services not native to AI, such as Supabase, also experience strong growth closely following that of vibe coding platforms. These growths and changes suggest that new entrants may soon appear in the rankings, indicating that a stabilized market does not necessarily mean a closed market.