Viral apps

Cases
56
Median Spread Score
40
Most started on
App stores48%
First post to peak
64 days

By mechanic

Shareable output33Controversy26Maker origin14Dupe economy12Pairing12Newsjacking6

ChatGPT

73
Current official ChatGPT iOS screenshot from OpenAI’s Apple App Store listing.

100M users

Houseparty

61
The Houseparty screen for connecting a Fortnite account.

28M downloads a month

DeepSeek AI Assistant

58
Official DeepSeek app screenshot from its app announcement.

23M downloads a month

Clubhouse

55
Andreessen Horowitz Wins VC Sweepstakes To Back Clubhouse, Voice App Still In Beta, At $100 Million Valuation

9.6M downloads a month

EPIK AI Yearbook

53
How I wish this was my college yearbook creative photos 😅 #photodumps #yearbookAIphotos #AI #epikapp #yearbooktrend #fyp #viral

Peaked at #1

MSQRD

53
Frame from MSQRD’s official demo showing a live animal mask and the camera controls.

14M users

Periscope

53
The Periscope video streaming site logo is displayed on the screen of an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in London, U.K., on Friday, May, 15, 2015. Facebook Inc. reached a deal…

4.3M users

Locket Widget

52
Official Locket graphic showing friends’ photos inside the home-screen widget

10M downloads a month

BeReal

50
Current official App Store screenshot showing BeReal’s paired front-and-back camera photo.

20M users

Nano Banana

49
Google’s examples of Nano Banana figurines, retro portraits and other image trends.

Peaked at #1

Pokopia Font Generator

49
While you wait for Pokemon Pokopia to release, generate your own custom version of the logo with the Pokopia Font Generator! Featuring a hand-made custom recreation of the logo font.

Spotify Pie

48
Darren Huang’s Spotify Pie, with genre slices and ranked favorite artists.

Ushahidi’s Kenya crisis map

48
Ushahidi v0.1 SMS reporting and feedback workflow with map, reproduced in Ory Okolloh’s account

Lovable

46
Current Lovable dashboard with the prompt field and project cards, from the official documentation

$600M revenue

Character.AI mobile app

45
Official launch graphic showing the Character.AI mobile interface and app-store badges.

22M users

Reface

45
The Viral Reface App Could Make Our Deepfake Problem Worse

20M users

Trust Bank Singapore Referral Launch

45
Trust app splash screen and Gojek stamp-card reward, shown in Perx’s December 2022 newsletter.

Acapella from PicPlayPost

44
Acapella from PicPlayPost App Store listing, Mixcord

7M users

Lensa Magic Avatars

44
We've launched something really cool! 🚀 Now you can generate mind-blowing personal avatars with Stable diffusion + Dream booth in a few taps in our app Lensa. It also costs just $2.99 per pack!😃…

$29.3M revenue

Sarahah

44
The app has become popular with users of Snapchat

Peaked at #1

Wplace

44
Welcome to wplace: A chaotic, collaborative digital canvas where users 'paint the world'

DOGS Telegram Mini App

43
DOGS token sets memecoin record with 17M users on The Open Network

Peaked at #3

Poparazzi

42
Poparazzi camera, photo feed and friends-created profile, supplied in the Luciq customer case study.

4M users

NewProfilePic

41
Post by @BeardedGenius on X

Peaked at #1

Artisto

40
After initial success in Russia, neural network-inspired apps Artisto and Prisma become international hits

1.3M users

Countdown App

40
Official current App Store screenshot showing Countdown App’s death timer.

Peaked at #1

Dropbox’s two-sided referral rewards

40
Drew Houston’s 2010 slide explaining Dropbox’s two-sided referral incentive

Instafest

40
Official screenshot of Instafest’s later iPhone app and its festival-poster interface.

6M users

Shuffles

40
Official Shuffles screenshot showing animated collage examples and image cutouts.

500K downloads a month

Peach

39
Official Peach App Store screenshot showing the social app interface.

Peaked at #9

Bondee

38
スマホ向けメタバースSNS『Bondee ボンディー』 日本で初めてのPOP UP！ 4/24～5/7までのイベント開催レポート

Peaked at #1

BOOK OF MEME (BOME)

38
BOOK OF MEME Price: BOME/USD Live Price Chart, Market Cap & News Today | CoinGecko

Deep Nostalgia

38
MyHeritage’s official Deep Nostalgia animation demonstration.

Peaked at #1

Polly

38
Second Polly app screenshot supplied in its Product Hunt gallery

20M users

Gas app

36
Gas: The social app for teens designed to spread positivity | Fox Business Video

$11M revenue

Arc Browser

35
Goodbye, waitlist. Hello, Arc 1.0. Download now: 🔗 in bio

250K impressions

Hotmail’s email signup footer

35

HubSpot’s free Website Grader

35
First page of HubSpot’s March 2007 Website Grader report with score and recommendations

M-PESA’s Send Money Home launch

35

WeChat’s first New Year red packets

35
Tencent’s 2017 presentation illustrating WeChat group red-packet opening and random allocation

NGL app

34
Official NGL App Store screenshot showing a question card shared over an Instagram Story.

125M users

Color Widgets

33
Color Widgets on the App Store

$155K revenue

David's Disposable

33
Dispo 2.0

Peaked at #1

Turbo (TURBO)

30
Turbo Token — RHETT MANKIND

Lapse (2023 relaunch)

29
Lapse social photo-journal screens supplied with its funding announcement.

$0 revenue

Friend.tech

24
1/3 We've been taking a look at some numbers to see how key holders are using friendtech. Let's start with active users: about 20k key holders check rooms to read messages every day

$7.2M revenue

Ditty

23
FunBITS: Send Your Friends a Ditty - TidBITS

Peaked at #1

Pepe (PEPE)

16
Today. $PEPE #MMGA

Peaked at #3

dogwifhat (WIF)

15
$WIF live CA: EKpQGSJtjMFqKZ9KQanSqYXRcF8fBopzLHYxdM65zcjm Chart: Tg :

Peaked at #3

Byte

12

Peaked at #1

Linux’s announcement and contributor response

10

MXit’s early South African mobile community

10

SETI@home volunteer launch

10
SETI@home BOINC graphics in Classic display mode. Later BOINC interface demonstration, not the original 1999 screensaver.

The Million Dollar Homepage

10
The Million Dollar Homepage’s completed advertising-pixel grid. Completed campaign grid retained on the original website; later state, not the launch-day grid.

$1M revenue

Wikipedia’s first-year contributor community

10

Avatarify

0
马云、马斯克齐唱“蚂蚁呀嘿”，这股风潮你跟上了吗？

Peaked at #1

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