The Sora app for Android saw nearly half a million installs on its first day

Sora Launch the robot It is off to an auspicious start. In its first day on the Google Play Store, the video AI app from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, saw an estimated 470,000 downloads across the markets where it was available, according to new estimates from the app information provider. Application forms.

This makes the Android launch more than 4 times the size of the iOS launch, with 327% more installs (360,000) – but the company points out that this is not an apples-to-apples comparison.

On iOS, Sora was only available in the US and Canada, and was invite-only.

However, Sora on Android exists available In the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam OpenAI has dropped invitation requirements In late October for its major markets.

The app was a huge success after its debut, despite its previous exclusive status. The iOS app quickly achieved over a million installs within its first week Jump to the top of the App Store. Today, it still ranks fourth on the list of top free apps on the US App Store.

With Sora, users leverage AI to create videos with prompts. These videos can also include users and their friends animated by AI, via a feature known as Cameos. Videos can be scrolled in a vertical feed similar to TikTok, so you can see what others are doing using this technology.

Appfigures has it too It revised its previous estimates For iOS day one downloads of the Sora app. Originally, its models said the app saw about 56,000 downloads on the first day. Now that more time has passed, the model can more accurately predict that the number was closer to 110,000, with about 69,300 of those installed in the United States.

By comparison, the Sora Android app saw roughly 296,000 installs in the US, out of a total of 470,000 installs, suggesting there’s still interest in the AI-powered video maker, even after the hype of its initial iOS launch has faded.

Sora also competes with Meta AI, which has released Mobile app for European users todayafter debuting in the United States earlier.