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Candy Network
Canva
CapCut
Character.AI
Civitai
DeepSeek
Doubao
ElevenLabs
Freepik
Gamma
Gemini
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Grammarly
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a16z Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 6th Edition

March 1, 2026
51 entries
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The 6th edition of a16z's ranking of the top 100 generative AI consumer apps by web and mobile traffic.

Startups

Candy Network

#1

Candy Network

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

AI
Valletta, Malta
Canva

#2

Canva

Canva is a global online visual communications platform empowering the world to design with a simple drag-and-drop interface and vast range of templates.

Design
$975M
CapCut

#3

CapCut

A free, all-in-one video editing app for creators to make amazing videos.

Content Creation
Shanghai, China
Character.AI

#4

Character.AI

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

Conversational AI
$150MMenlo Park, United States
Civitai

#5

Civitai

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

Generative AI
$5MSan Francisco, United States
DeepSeek

#6

DeepSeek

Foundation Model
$7.4B
Doubao

#7

Doubao

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

Foundation Model
Beijing, China
ElevenLabs

#8

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
Freepik

#9

Freepik

Freepik is a leading AI-powered creative suite offering generative AI tools and a vast stock asset library to streamline high-quality content creation for professionals and creative teams.

Generative AI
Málaga, Spain
Gamma

#10

Gamma

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

AI
$155MSan Francisco, United States
Gemini

#11

Gemini

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

Generative AI
$50MNew York City, United States
Genspark

#12

Genspark

AI Agentic Engine for an all-in-one AI workspace, pioneering 'Vibe Working' for a 3-day work week.

Agentic AI
San Francisco, United States
G

#13

GigaChat

Russia's leading AI chatbot by Sberbank, serving as the country's primary ChatGPT alternative.

AI
Moscow, Russia
Grammarly

#14

Grammarly

AI-powered writing assistant that helps millions communicate clearly and effectively.

Artificial Intelligence
$3.2BSan Francisco, United States
Higgsfield

#15

Higgsfield

Higgsfield provides AI-powered tools for creators, enabling ultra-realistic visuals, avatar speaking, and visual effects.

Hugging Face

#16

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

#17

JanitorAI

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

Agentic AI
Kimi

#18

Kimi

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

AI
$2.6BBeijing, China
Kling AI

#19

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.

Arena

#20

Arena

The de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs.

Artificial Intelligence
$250MBerkeley, California, USA
Lovable

#21

Lovable

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

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

#22

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

#23

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
NotebookLM

#24

NotebookLM

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

AI Tools & Apps
Mountain View, United States
Notion

#25

Notion

Notion is an all-in-one workspace that combines notes, wikis, tasks, and databases.

SaaS
$200M
Ourdream.ai

#26

Ourdream.ai

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

Generative AI
$2MRemote
Perplexity AI

#27

Perplexity AI

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

Search Engine
$665MSan Francisco, United States
Photoroom

#28

Photoroom

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

AI Image Generation
Paris, France
Pixelcut

#29

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

#30

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

#31

Polybuzz

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

Consumer
Wilmington, United States
Quark

#32

Quark

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

AI
Hangzhou, China
QuillBot

#33

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

#34

Qwen

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

Foundation Model
Hangzhou, China
Remove.bg

#35

Remove.bg

AI-powered background removal tool processing billions of images

AI
$10MVienna, Austria
SeaArt

#36

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

#37

Spicychat

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

Conversational AI
$1MRemote
Suno

#38

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

#39

Turboscribe

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

Transcription
$2MRemote
Veed

#40

Veed

Browser-based AI video editor for creators and marketing teams

Video Editing
$35MLondon, UK
Brainly

#41

Brainly

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

EdTech
Krakow, Poland
FaceApp

#42

FaceApp

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

Photo editing
Limassol, Cyprus
Learna AI

#43

Learna AI

An AI-powered learning platform designed to personalize educational experiences.

EdTech
Tel Aviv, Israel
Meituan

#44

Meituan

Leading Chinese e-commerce platform for services like food delivery, hotel booking, and movie tickets.

E-commerce
$10.2BBeijing, China
Picsart

#45

Picsart

AI-powered design platform providing creative tools for content creation, editing, and graphic design.

Artificial Intelligence
$130MMiami, United States
Remini

#46

Remini

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

AI Image Generation
$1MSingapore, Singapore
Seekee

#47

Seekee

An all-in-one AI assistant and browser that streamlines digital life with features for creation, learning, and entertainment.

AI Chatbot
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yandex

#48

Yandex

Russian tech giant providing search, AI, ride-hailing, and e-commerce services.

Search Engine
Moscow, Russia
VN

#49

VN

A powerful and intuitive mobile video editor for creators.

Mobile Video Editor
Shanghai, China
Photomath

#50

Photomath

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

EdTech
$1MHelsinki, Finland
E

#51

Epik

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

AI
$95MSeongnam, South Korea