ChatGPT is not the No. 1 free iPhone app in any of 15 countries we checked on Apple’s App Store on 11 November, while Meta’s Muse is No. 1 in four and Anthropic’s Claude in two, by our count from Apple’s Top Free chart feed, fetched between 11:23 and 11:34 UTC.
We rebuilt a snapshot that an X user, @pablomartimar, posted on 10 November: “ChatGPT isn’t the #1 app in any of these 14 countries on the App Store today”. Among the AI apps, Muse ranks highest in five countries, Claude in five, ChatGPT in four and Google’s Gemini in one, by our count. ChatGPT’s best rank is No. 2.
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The key insight: As we read our snapshot, the first-place race on the App Store is now regional: Muse holds No. 1 in four countries and Claude in two, while ChatGPT, No. 1 in none, is in the top 10 in 14 of 15 countries by our count, more than Claude (11) or Gemini (10).
We pulled Apple’s public Top Free iPhone apps list, the top 100, for the US, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, South Korea, the UK, India, Brazil, Australia and Italy, and matched apps by Apple’s app id rather than by name, so Muse de Meta in Mexico counts as Muse.
Muse is No. 1 overall in Canada, Mexico, Japan and Singapore and No. 2 in the US, where the top free app was TikTok Pro – Events. Claude is No. 1 overall in France and Spain and No. 2 in Germany and the Netherlands. In South Korea it is the highest-ranked AI app at No. 6, with ChatGPT at No. 24.
ChatGPT is the highest-ranked AI app in the UK, India, Brazil and Australia, at No. 2, No. 2, No. 5 and No. 4. Gemini leads the AI apps only in Italy, at No. 2, one place above Claude. A name search of all 15 lists found no app named Perplexity, DeepSeek or Doubao in any top 100.
Rank of each AI app on Apple’s Top Free iPhone chart in 15 countries, fetched between 11:23 and 11:34 UTC on 11 November 2026; rank 1 at left, log scale. Muse and Meta AI are separate Meta apps. The snapshot and counts are ours. Source: Apple App Store Top Free (iPhone) feed.
What Was Posted on X
ChatGPT isn’t the #1 app in any of these 14 countries on the App Store today
Muse is #1 in Canada, Japan and Mexico. Claude is #1 in Germany, France and Spain. ChatGPT’s best is #2
The default AI app is still up for grabs $META $GOOGL $AMZN
An X user, @pablomartimar, posted on 10 November that ChatGPT was not the No. 1 App Store app in any of 14 countries, with Muse No. 1 in Canada, Japan and Mexico and Claude No. 1 in Germany, France and Spain, in the poster’s view leaving the default AI app up for grabs. This piece rebuilds that snapshot from Apple’s feed for 15 countries.
Another X user, @plumberbutt97, posted on 10 November ‘And @Muse comes to ๐ฌ๐ง ๐’, suggesting Muse is coming to the UK; the piece checks that against its UK chart.
ChatGPT’s Floor
ChatGPT tops no chart, but it is in the top 10 in 14 of the 15 countries, every one except South Korea, by our count. Claude is in the top 10 in 11 and Gemini in 10. The median rank across the 15 is No. 4 for ChatGPT, No. 5 for Claude and No. 7 for Gemini, by our arithmetic.
Muse is in the top 100 in five countries, the US, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Singapore, and in each of those it is No. 1 or No. 2. In those five, the separate Meta AI app does not appear in the top 100; in the other ten, Meta AI appears and Muse does not, with its best rank No. 11 in Italy.
What Moved Since 9 November
The chart attached to @pablomartimar’s post gives its source as Apple’s Top Free iPhone charts on 9 November at about 16:00 CET. It shows Claude at No. 1 in Germany; in our 11 November snapshot Claude is No. 2 there, behind the AOK Ident app. It shows Muse at No. 3 in Singapore; in ours Muse is No. 1.
A second X user, @plumberbutt97, quoted the post with “And @Muse comes to ๐ฌ๐ง ๐”. In our UK snapshot Muse is not in the top 100, ChatGPT is No. 2, Claude No. 4 and Meta AI No. 35. Our earlier coverage of Meta’s planned UK launch is here, and of ByteDance’s rival plans here.
The Structural Read
As we read the ranks, Meta and Anthropic are leading in different places: Muse at the top in North America outside the US and in Japan and Singapore, Claude at the top in France and Spain and second in Germany and the Netherlands.
As we read the Meta numbers, Muse and Meta AI never appear in the same country’s top 100 in our snapshot, so any count of Meta’s AI app has to say which of the two apps it means.
@pablomartimar on X, 10 November 2026
“The default AI app is still up for grabs”
Three Implications
FOR OPENAI In our snapshot ChatGPT is No. 2 in Canada, Mexico, the UK and India and No. 24 in South Korea, its lowest rank of the 15.
FOR META Muse is No. 1 or No. 2 in all five countries where it appears in the top 100; Meta AI’s best rank in the other ten is No. 11, in Italy.
FOR ANTHROPIC Claude is No. 1 in France and Spain and the highest-ranked AI app in five of the 15 countries, by our count.
The framework says: “The transformer is a commodity now; what changes between paradigms is where intelligence accumulates and who can capture it.”
As we read it, an App Store rank measures who is being installed today, one input to that capture, not where usage accumulates; the feed we read gives ranks only. The framework does not discuss app charts.
What Is Not Established
The feed we read gives ranks only: no download counts, no revenue and no measure of how much each app is used. Our snapshot covers one moment, on iPhone, in 15 countries; we did not check Android or paid-app charts. The 9 November figures are from the chart image in @pablomartimar’s post, which we did not rebuild for that date.
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On Apple’s Top Free iPhone charts on 11 November, ChatGPT is No. 1 in none of 15 countries, Muse is No. 1 in four and Claude in two, by our count, while ChatGPT is in the top 10 in 14 of the 15.
A note on sourcing. We fetched Apple’s public Top Free iPhone apps feed, the top 100, for 15 countries between 11:23 and 11:34 UTC on 11 November 2026 and matched apps by their App Store ids; the ranks are Apple’s, and the counts and medians are ours. We read the two X posts in full and transcribed the 9 November chart attached to @pablomartimar’s post.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
