ChatGPT Has Been Ousted by Google Gemini: Nano Banana AI Takes the App to No.1 in the World
September 18, 2025
At long last, Google Gemini has jumped to the top of both Apple App Store and Google Play Store ti score number one position ahead of ChatGPT. The abrupt climb followed the release of Gemini’s viral Nano Banana AI feature — a hit on social media.
Nano Banana AI Goes Gemini Viral
Nano Banana Released on 26 August 2025 Nano Banana is a potent image generator within Gemini. It lets users transform basic selfies into 3-D figurines, anime characters and hyper realistic edits with a few typed words. In two weeks, more than 500 million AI-generated images were generated and Gemini enlisted over 23 million new users around the world.
The fad soon began to spread across Instagram, X, Discord and Facebook, with users sharing impressionistic edits under viral tags like “hug my younger self.”
App Store Rankings Change Overnight
On September 15th, 2025 Gemini was the most downloaded free app in the world.
ChatGPT, the longtime chart ruler, slipped to second.
Analysts say Nano Banana has converted image editing into the third most popular AI use case, after general queries and learning tools.
Seedream 4.0 - Nano Banana: The Rivalry
Gemini’s faddish Nano Banana is also now a world trend, and the new release of ByteDance Seedream 4.0 is in the news too!
Seedream 4.0 brings you to a high resolution world of 2K & 4K artistic images.
Nano Banana specializes in pinpoint precision, with the port of real faces and uniform adjustments throughout several pictures.
Online communities comment that Seedream is for strong creative environment and Nano Banana is best for realistic portraits.
This battle reflects AI tools’ rapid evolution, with at this point each platform honing in on different strengths.
Privacy and Safety Concerns
Google has guaranteed that each achievable Nano Banana picture comes with a visible watermark and an invisible SynthID marker to verify it is of AI creation. However, experts have cautioned that people should not submit sensitive personal pictures to the internet as viral fads often entice fraudsters.
What Analysts Say
Some market experts say Gemini’s ascent is a harbinger of a shift in the race for A.I. Image creation is not a peripheral feature but now the key driver of app adoption. If growth continues, Gemini can certainly extend its lead and threaten OpenAI's supremacy in consumer AI.
FAQs
Q1. What makes Google Gemini rank first on app stores?
Due to the huge success of the Nano Banana AI tool, a system that allows people to make creative and fast photo transformations which went viral on social media.
Q2. How does Seedream 4.0 stack up against Nano Banana?
Seedream focuses on hi-res images, whilst Nano Banana makes more accurate, identity-preserving portraits. Both services are accessible, though Gemini has a larger international user base.
Q3. Is Nano Banana free to use?
Yes. Users can edit as many as 100 images a day for free, while premium subscribers can work on up to 1,000 images a day.
Q4. Does Nano Banana AI have any risk?
Google retains watermarks for security, but sharing risqué personal photos— to not get anyone naked and have your car/drone broken down — is ill-advised per experts.
Conclusion
And with the release of Nano Banana AI the global AI world has shaken hard, Google Gemini has thereby overtaken ChatGPT and became No.1 worldwide. With a competitor like Seedream 4.0 challenging so closely, the fight for AI dominance in creativity is only just getting started.
