Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, has climbed to No. 2 on the US iOS App Store charts just days after its domestic release. According to Sensor Tower, the app has been downloaded more than 83,000 times on iPhone in the United States.
The ranking looks strong on paper. The underlying numbers tell a more cautious story.
Muse’s early traction lags well behind Meta’s own previous launches. Threads pulled in more than 4.3 million US downloads on its first day. The Meta AI app recorded about 108,000 downloads at debut. ChatGPT, by comparison, was averaging roughly 83,000 daily downloads in its first week when the US was still its only market — a pace Muse has taken roughly twice as long to match.
On Android the picture is weaker still. Muse currently ranks 338th in the Productivity category on Google Play. Download figures for Android have not yet been released. The app is also available on the web and through WhatsApp, but those channels are not included in the current estimates.
Muse is designed as a personal AI agent that can carry out multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf — managing email, booking travel, filling forms, and making purchases with approval. Meta is positioning it as a step beyond chatbots into more autonomous software.
The competitive field is already crowded. Google offers Gemini Spark, Anthropic has Claude Cowork, and the fast-moving startup Instinct — recently valued at $2.5 billion — has been adding features at speed, including Stripe and 1Password integrations, location sharing, and tools that let users’ agents communicate with one another.
Privacy concerns may also weigh on adoption. Agentic apps require broad permissions to act on a user’s behalf, and Muse arrives only days after Meta agreed to an $18 billion multistate settlement over social media-related consumer harms. That backdrop could make some users more hesitant to grant the level of access the app needs.
For now, Muse has secured a high chart position on iOS. Whether it can convert that visibility into sustained usage — especially against faster-shipping rivals and lingering trust issues — remains the open question.