DeepSeek trumps OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Apple and Google app stores as top productivity app

China’s DeepSeek AI Assistant, which made waves in the global AI sector, has become the top productivity app in India in both Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store.

DeepSeek’s AI assistant, like ChatGPT, lets users enter prompts in order to generate answers, read files, search the web, solve complex problems, and summarise documents.

It has over 10 million downloads on the Google Play Store alone and pushed ChatGPT to fifth place. On the Apple App Store, DeepSeek had pushed ChatGPT to second place while Google’s Gemini took the third place.

Per the Google Play Store, the DeepSeek app collects information such as users’ names, email IDs, user IDs, phone number, photos, app interactions/user-generated content, and files/documents. Meanwhile, it may share information such as email addresses and device or other IDs with external companies/organisations.

“Experience seamless interaction with DeepSeek’s official AI assistant for free! Powered by the groundbreaking DeepSeek-V3 model with over 600B parameters, this state-of-the-art AI leads global standards and matches top-tier international models across multiple benchmarks. Enjoy faster speeds and comprehensive features designed to answer your questions and enhance your life efficiently,” stated the app bio on the Apple App Store.