Anthropic’s Tremendous Bowl advertisements — which characteristic darkly comedic situations of individuals in search of recommendation from chatbots, solely to be steered to “cougar” relationship websites and height-boosting insoles — have been paying off. Within the days since, Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude has climbed from No. 41 on the U.S. App Retailer to turn into a prime 10 app. As of Friday, Claude sits at No. 7 — its highest rank so far — suggesting its “no advertisements” pitch resonates strongly with customers.
Based on new knowledge from market intelligence supplier Appfigures, Claude’s U.S. downloads throughout each iOS and Android totaled an estimated 148,000 from Sunday by means of Tuesday — the latest knowledge out there. That’s a 32% improve from the previous three days, Thursday by means of Saturday, the place downloads totaled roughly 112,000.
Claude’s day by day common variety of downloads from Sunday by means of Tuesday was 49,200, up 32% from the standard Sunday by means of Tuesday common of 37,400 per day.
The numbers counsel that Anthropic’s Tremendous Bowl commercials, mixed with Anthropic’s latest launch of its new Opus 4.6 mannequin, labored to drive consideration to Claude’s app and its key differentiator from ChatGPT. The latter rolled out advertisements to free customers this week, simply as Anthropic’s advertisements had warned.
Consequently, Claude’s app is gaining extra consideration than it did when it first debuted on cellular.

The patron-focused AI app arrived on iOS in Might 2024 to a reasonably tepid reception. ChatGPT had overwhelmed it to market on cellular gadgets and had grown to almost half 1,000,000 installs in its first 5 days. By comparability, Claude had solely pulled in 157,000 complete international downloads inside its first week and didn’t attain a rank increased than No. 55 on the U.S. App Retailer.
Globally, Claude noticed some positive factors this previous week, too. General worldwide downloads of Claude throughout each the App Retailer and Google Play grew 15% from Sunday to Tuesday versus final Thursday to Saturday. Nonetheless, this was lower than half the positive factors seen within the U.S., Appfigures famous.
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June 23, 2026
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