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Candy Network
Character.AI
Civitai
DeepAI
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Doubao
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Gamma
Gemini
Hailuo
Hugging Face
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Juicychat
Kimi
Kling AI
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a16z Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 5th Edition

June 1, 2025
45 entries
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The 5th edition of a16z's ranking of the top 100 generative AI consumer apps by web and mobile traffic. Covers AI assistants, image generators, coding tools, video AI, music AI, and more.

Startups

Candy Network

#1

Candy Network

AI-powered virtual companion platform for personalized romantic and social chat experiences.

AI
Valletta, Malta
Character.AI

#2

Character.AI

A leading personal AI platform creating revolutionary open-ended conversational applications.

Conversational AI
$150MMenlo Park, United States
Civitai

#3

Civitai

A leading open-source generative AI community for creating, sharing, and discovering AI-generated media.

Generative AI
$5MSan Francisco, United States
DeepAI

#4

DeepAI

All-in-one creative AI platform for image generation, editing, chat, video, and music.

AI Image Generation
DeepSeek

#5

DeepSeek

Foundation Model
$7.4B
Doubao

#6

Doubao

Chinese AI chatbot company developing large language models and AI applications.

Foundation Model
Beijing, China
ElevenLabs

#7

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs AI Music Generator allows users to quickly create high-quality, customized music tracks in any genre or style, with or without vocals, in multiple languages using simple text prompts.

AI
$1.6BLondon, United Kingdom
Gamma

#8

Gamma

AI design partner for creating presentations, websites, social media, and more at the speed of thought.

AI
$155MSan Francisco, United States
Gemini

#9

Gemini

A regulated cryptocurrency exchange and custodian focused on security and compliance.

Generative AI
$50MNew York City, United States
Hailuo

#10

Hailuo

AI video generation platform by MiniMax that creates high-fidelity videos from text and image prompts.

Video Generation
$685MShanghai, China
Hugging Face

#11

Hugging Face

Hugging Face is the leading AI community and platform for machine learning collaboration, enabling developers to build, share, and deploy models, datasets, and applications.

AI
$395MNew York, United States
JanitorAI

#12

JanitorAI

JanitorAI crafts immersive roleplay experiences by leveraging cutting-edge AI interactions to create dynamic and responsive digital environments.

Agentic AI
Juicychat

#13

Juicychat

AI chat platform for personalized virtual character conversations and creative roleplay.

Conversational AI
Kimi

#14

Kimi

AI assistant by Moonshot AI capable of processing 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt.

AI
$2.6BBeijing, China
Kling AI

#15

Kling AI

Kling AI provides state-of-the-art generative AI tools for creating imaginative images and videos, leveraging advanced foundation models like Kling 2.0 and Kolors 2.0.

Leonardo.Ai

#16

Leonardo.Ai

A generative AI platform for creating high-quality digital assets for games, film, and creative projects.

Generative AI
$36MDublin, Ireland
Lovable

#17

Lovable

Lovable is a platform that allows users to build apps and websites by chatting with AI.

No-Code/Low-Code
$880MStockholm, Sweden
Manus

#18

Manus

Manus is a versatile platform for creating and managing various digital content types, including slides, images, videos, audio, and web pages, applicable across research, education, and productivity.

Agentic AI
Midjourney

#19

Midjourney

Midjourney is an independent research lab dedicated to exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species through advanced AI.

Text to Image
$150M
Monica

#20

Monica

All-in-one AI assistant browser extension powered by GPT, Claude, and Gemini for 10M+ users worldwide.

AI
$10MHong Kong, China
NotebookLM

#21

NotebookLM

AI-powered research and note-taking tool that helps users interact with documents and generate insights.

AI Tools & Apps
Mountain View, United States
Ourdream.ai

#22

Ourdream.ai

AI character playground for unlimited chat, pictures, and videos with AI companions.

Generative AI
$2MRemote
Perplexity AI

#23

Perplexity AI

AI-powered search engine that delivers real-time, cited answers to complex questions.

Search Engine
$665MSan Francisco, United States
Photoroom

#24

Photoroom

AI-powered photo editing and design platform for e-commerce and creators.

AI Image Generation
Paris, France
Pixelcut

#25

Pixelcut

Pixelcut is an AI-powered platform for photo and video editing, image generation, and collaborative visual content creation, trusted by over 50 million users.

Poe

#26

Poe

A platform offering fast, helpful AI chat with access to a wide range of advanced AI models.

AI Tools
Palo Alto, United States
Polybuzz

#27

Polybuzz

AI chatbot platform with 20M+ characters for immersive roleplay and character-based conversations.

Consumer
Wilmington, United States
Quark

#28

Quark

Alibaba's AI-powered smart search engine and browser with 200M+ users in China.

AI
Hangzhou, China
QuillBot

#29

QuillBot

QuillBot is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps users enhance clarity, improve grammar, paraphrase text, detect AI content, and prevent plagiarism, boosting productivity for various writing needs.

AI Writing
$4M
Q

#30

Qwen

Alibaba Cloud's family of large language and multimodal models powering AI applications globally.

Foundation Model
Hangzhou, China
Remaker

#31

Remaker

AI-powered image and video editing platform offering face swap, background removal, and upscaling tools.

AI
Singapore, Singapore
Remove.bg

#32

Remove.bg

AI-powered background removal tool processing billions of images

AI
$10MVienna, Austria
Replit

#33

Replit

Collaborative browser-based IDE for building, deploying, and hosting applications with AI.

AI Coding Assistant
$1.2BSan Francisco, United States
SeaArt

#34

SeaArt

SeaArt is a premier free AI image generator and user-friendly AI painting tool that enables effortless creation of high-quality images for various scenarios without requiring professional skills.

AI Image Generation
Chengdu, China
Spicychat

#35

Spicychat

AI roleplay chat platform with customizable AI companions for immersive storytelling and companionship.

Conversational AI
$1MRemote
Suno

#36

Suno

Suno is an AI music generation platform that empowers anyone to create songs from imagination, breaking barriers between users and their musical dreams without needing instruments.

Creative Suite
$755MCambridge, United States
Turboscribe

#37

Turboscribe

AI-powered transcription service converting audio and video to accurate text in over 98 languages.

Transcription
$2MRemote
Veed

#38

Veed

Browser-based AI video editor for creators and marketing teams

Video Editing
$35MLondon, UK
Z

#39

ZeroGPT

AI content detection and writing toolkit for educators, businesses, and creators.

EdTech
Brainly

#40

Brainly

The world's leading AI education tool, offering personalized learning, homework help, test prep, and tutoring.

EdTech
Krakow, Poland
FaceApp

#41

FaceApp

AI-powered mobile app for realistic photo and video editing of portraits.

Photo editing
Limassol, Cyprus
F

#42

Filmora

Video editing software

Photomath

#43

Photomath

A mobile app providing step-by-step math problem solutions and explanations for students.

EdTech
$1MHelsinki, Finland
Remini

#44

Remini

AI-powered mobile app that enhances and restores old or blurry photos.

AI Image Generation
$1MSingapore, Singapore
E

#45

Epik

AI-powered photo and video editing app by SNOW Corporation with 73M+ downloads.

AI
$95MSeongnam, South Korea