AI art work apps are cluttering the App Retailer’s Excessive Charts following Lensa AI’s success
Lensa AI’s recognition has had a notable affect on the App Retailer’s Excessive Charts. The image and video modifying app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open provide Stable Diffusion model, allowing prospects to indicate their selfies into styled portraits of themselves as sci-fi, anime, or fantasy characters, amongst totally different creative renderings. Consumer demand for the app, and for AI edits additional broadly, has now pushed fairly just a few totally different “AI” apps into the U.S. App Retailer’s Excessive Charts. As of Monday, the very best three spots on the U.S. App Retailer are all held by AI image editors, and far more AI art work apps are newly score inside the Excessive 100.
The No. 1 spot on the U.S. App Retailer, however, continues to be held by Lensa AI, which observed 12.6 million worldwide installs inside the first 11 days of December, up 600% from the 1.8 million installs it observed all through the identical timeframe in November (November 20 by way of November 30), in step with new info from app retailer intelligence company Sensor Tower. The U.S. accounted for 3.6 million of those new December installs, estimates level out.
In precise reality, 8 out of the very best 100 apps by downloads on the U.S. App Retailer have been AI art apps all through the December 1 by way of December 11 timeframe, the company’s analysis found.
Following Lensa AI, the generic-sounding app AI Art: AI Image Generator has keyword-stuffed its app’s establish to rank in second place, promising AI avatars and AI art work from textual content material. Dawn — AI Avatars is inside the No. 3 place, offering AI avatars that could be modified with a textual content material quick. (As of the time of writing on December 12, the two apps appear to have swapped areas.)
AI Art work has seen spherical 1.7 million worldwide installs all through December 1 by way of 11, up 229% from the 71,000 it observed all through November 20 by way of 30. Within the meantime, Dawn moreover observed spherical 1.7 million installs, Sensor Tower talked about, up from the 28,000 it observed inside the late November timeframe.
These are rigorously adopted by Wonder — AI Art Generator at No. 10, which moreover presents AI avatars and AI art work from textual content material prompts.
Although Marvel ranks lower inside the U.S., it has seen spherical 4 million worldwide installs so far in December, up from the prior interval of November 20 by way of 30, when it observed 469,000 installs.
Not an extreme quantity of farther down the Excessive Charts, you’ll moreover uncover Prequel: Aesthetic AI Editor at slot No. 14. The app has seen 907,000 worldwide installs this month so far, up from the 319,000 seen November 20 by way of 30.
The Excessive 50 moreover consists of the newer app Voi — AI Avatar App by Wonder at No. 39. This happens to be from the an identical developer behind the No. 10 app Marvel nevertheless has an horrible 1.6-star rating over its worth subscription model and broken choices, in step with indignant purchaser opinions. Launched solely on December 7, Voi has already gained 785,000 installs, of which 241,000 have been U.S. based totally. Clearly benefiting from the sample, the app’s developer really now has three apps that reference “AI” of their titles, along with the lesser-ranked Pixelup — AI Image Enhancer.
One different AI app, Meitu — Photo Editor & AI Art, has moved into No. 47 on the U.S. App Retailer after gaining 6.4 million installs in December so far, up from the 1.1 million seen all through November 20 by way of 30.
Together with extraordinarily score whole amongst iPhone apps, the U.S. App Retailer’s Graphics & Design class may be now full of AI art work apps inside its private Excessive Charts.
Proper right here, Dawn is the No. 1 Excessive Free app, adopted by AI Art work and Marvel to spherical out the very best 3. Profile AI: AI Avatar Creator, Encourage — AI Art work Generator, and Dream by Wombo — AI Art Tool are ranked 8, 9, and 10, respectively.
Lesser acknowledged “AI” apps pop up as you scroll down the category’s Excessive 50 as successfully, submitting slots No. 14, 19, 21, 25, 27, 31, 36, 44, and 47 — too many to file. All use the important thing phrase “AI” of their app’s establish and reference actions like “AI art work” or “AI avatars.”
And naturally, the U.S. Image & Video class’s Excessive Charts have numerous AI apps charting as successfully, along with No. 1 Lensa, No. 5 Prequel, No. 7 Voi, No. 8 Meitu, and No. 26 FacePlay.
AI app demand isn’t restricted to the App Retailer, however. Many of the comparable apps are trending on Google Play, too. When every app outlets’ rankings are combined, Lensa AI stays No. 1, AI Art work is No. 2, Marvel is No. 8, Meitu is No. 10, Prequel is No. 68, Dawn is No. 72, Dream is No. 77 and FacePlay is No. 90.
Dream gained 782,000 new worldwide installs in December so far, whereas FacePlay gained 2.8 million, Sensor Tower found.
Whereas it’s widespread for app makers to congregate spherical a sample by updating their app’s establish and description, or by bidding on key phrases in Apple’s App Retailer Search adverts, it’s distinctive merely what variety of “AI” apps have now made it to the Excessive Charts inside the wake of Lensa’s success. This alerts one factor better than a flash-in-the-pan sample, as the general dialog as of late is spherical how rather a lot AI has been enhancing. And in several areas, people are marveling on the leap of the AI tech ChatGPT.
That talked about, we should at all times discover that just because an app is promoting and advertising itself as AI-powered, it doesn’t basically indicate it’s using the an identical Regular Diffusion model Lensa is. Not that consumers seem to care — they seem blissful to attempt nearly any app labeling itself AI within the interim, as long as it delivers fascinating and creative outcomes.
Nonetheless, there are issues over this explicit AI use case. Already, Regular Diffusion has turn into controversial for the easiest way its model was educated by using images from artists without their consent. Lensa was moreover able to be tricked into making NSFW images, found. And at current, MIT Technology Review reported that Lensa created topless photographs and skimpy and sexualized avatars when tried by one female reporter, who occurred to be of Asian heritage — suggesting the AI had been influenced by an overabundance of anime and video characters.
It’s clear the tech has a protracted resolution to go to be ethical and accountable. Nonetheless these issues, within the interim, aren’t dampening consumer curiosity on this rising class.
