Gemini app surges past 1 billion monthly active users

In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has become one of the company’s fastest-growing products, recently surpassing 1 billion monthly active users. Pichai also noted it was the 14th Google product to hit the 1 billion mark. With this growth, Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.

Google has been steadily integrating Gemini across its products, from Search and Workspace to Android and its standalone app. The company’s AI Mode in Search has achieved particular success, with over 1 billion monthly active users globally on its own — but the app figure Pichai announced refers specifically to the Gemini app and doesn’t include AI users from other channels.

The company also continued rolling out new models and features, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, which Google says is designed to improve coding and autonomous AI-agent tasks. Google shared data on how people are actually using the chatbot: 63% of Gemini users talk directly to the assistant using the voice feature, and Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google. Gemini’s growth isn’t limited to Google’s own products, either — the company says it now has more than 100 million active users on iOS.

The milestone comes right after Google’s Q2 2026 earnings call, where the company celebrated having over 950 million monthly users, with daily active users tripling over the past year. The announcement also comes ahead of Google’s Made by Google event, where more Gemini-powered features are expected to launch across Pixel devices.

Why it matters

Gemini crossing 1 billion monthly users puts Google in direct scale-parity with ChatGPT, turning the AI-assistant race into a contest between two products with comparable reach rather than a challenger chasing an incumbent.