Weekly Trends: 10 Small AI App Markets Added $150,496 a Month in 30 Days

Over the last 30 days, the 10 markets on our list added $150,496 a month (+5.6%), to $2,854,569. AI video added $76,542 of that, about half.

On paper, lead gen makes $1,071,639 a month. After our checks, it holds up at $353,887, and it was flat over the month.

What's left

Yesterday's post ended with "One snapshot is a rumour. Two is a story." A reader took it one step further:

So this week, it's the rule.

One app in a niche is a rumour. Two is a pattern. Three is a trend. An app only counts if it makes $10K+ in monthly revenue (MRR), and if one app holds more than half of a group's money, it isn't a trend.

After our checks, 10 markets hold up. 5 are deep, with 10 or more apps at $10K+ a month and no single app taking half the money. Five other groups have enough apps at $10K+, but one app holds over half the money in each, so they don't make the list.

Developer tools leads at $634,669 a month, and AI video is second at $606,099. The gap between them is $28,569 a month, which at this altitude is a rounding error with a podium. Lead gen is fourth, at $353,887.

Over 30 days, 5 of the 10 grew: developer tools, AI video, looks, writing and voice. The other 5 were flat: ads, lead gen, SEO, calorie tracking and chatbots. We reviewed 6,154 apps and sorted 2,749 of them into 63 groups.

Community and membership is a pattern, with 2 apps at $10K+, so it isn't on the list. Advise.so leads it at $20,705 a month. It fell $3,862 (-7.4%) over 30 days.

Where it's crowded, and where it isn't

AI video has 245 apps listed, and 10 of them make $10K+ a month. AI headshots on mobile has 107 apps and one at $10K+, which is less a market than a queue for one chair.

SEO has 82 apps and 10 at $10K+. Ads has 99 and 10. Ads, SEO and e-commerce tools all sit in the less crowded corner, where more apps get to $10K+.

Less crowded isn't empty. Every group on this chart has apps in it, just fewer of them.

The 5 solid trends

All five are web subscriptions sold to businesses.

Developer tools and APIs: $634,669 a month

Growing over 30 days: up $41,018 (+6.9%). 1Lookup added $18,754 of it on its own.

1Lookup checks phone numbers, emails and IP addresses in real time through an API. It brings in $269,996 a month on 742 active subscriptions, 42.5% of the group. Other apps here stopped syncing and are out of the figures, which is part of why 1Lookup's slice is that big.

11 apps at $10K+. We placed 1Lookup in this group by hand. Without it, the group has $364,673 a month and 10 apps at $10K+, right on the solid line. That makes 1Lookup less a member of this group than its load-bearing wall.

• Who pays: engineering budgets, about $47 a subscription a month (estimate). Once a tool is wired into a product, it tends to stay.
• Risk: free or open-source alternatives, or cloud platforms bundling the same feature.

AI video and ad creation: $606,099 a month

Growing over 30 days: up $76,542 (+14.5%), the biggest gain on the list. Gomotion AI added $26,889 (+64.7%) and Promptwise $13,728 (+26.3%).

Gomotion AI leads, and only just. It makes documentary-style videos for YouTube channels, and it brings in $68,433 a month on 1,471 active subscriptions. That's 11.3% of the group.

245 apps, 10 of them at $10K+. No other market on the list spreads its money across this many apps.

• Who pays: marketers and small brands, about $32 a subscription a month (estimate). Part of each dollar goes on to the AI model providers.
• Risk: the model providers or the big ad platforms ship the same thing for free, and switching costs are close to zero.

Ads and marketing analytics: $459,175 a month

Flat over 30 days. On a $459,175 base, the month's net move is a rounding error in a good suit.

Cometly sells marketing attribution and analytics to SaaS companies. It brings in $198,256 a month on 278 active subscriptions, 43.2% of the group. That's about $713 a subscription (estimate), a lot more than anyone else here.

Exactly 10 apps at $10K+, so it's solid by the smallest possible margin.

• Who pays: ad budgets, about $63 a subscription a month across the group (estimate).
• Risk: ad platforms change tracking or privacy rules and break attribution, or offer it themselves.

Lead gen, outreach and sales: $353,887 a month

Flat over 30 days. 12 apps at $10K+ held their ground, and the group as a whole stood still.

traxy.ai (founder @benbuaron_) builds lead lists from social media listening, with plans from $149 a month. It brings in $53,034 a month on 246 active subscriptions, 15.0% of the group. That's about $216 a subscription (estimate).

12 apps at $10K+, and no app holds more than 15.0%. Before our checks, the listings here showed $1,071,639 a month. Most of the gap was listings whose payment sync had stopped, including the two biggest, plus apps with no payments and one agency.

• Who pays: sales teams, out of a budget they can tie to deals. About $72 a subscription a month (estimate).
• Risk: LinkedIn or the email providers tighten automation rules, and the whole group loses its channel at once.

SEO and content marketing: $281,339 a month

Flat over 30 days. Tools that sell getting found spent the month flat.

Rank Prompt (founder @tomymarengo) shows how a website appears in AI search engines and how to improve it. It brings in $42,448 a month on 218 active subscriptions, 15.1% of the group.

Exactly 10 apps at $10K+, and no app holds much.

• Who pays: businesses paying for search and AI-answer visibility, about $71 a subscription a month (estimate).
• Risk: search and AI-answer engines change how they pick sources, and the tools lose their proof of results.

Passes the rule, but thin

Five more groups have 3+ apps at $10K+ and no app over half. They pass the rule, but none runs 10 apps deep. Four of them have exactly 3. Three apps at $10K+ is a trend by our rule. It's also a dinner party where one guest leaving cancels it.

AI calorie and nutrition tracking (mobile): $125,382 a month

Flat over 30 days. The market barely moved, which suits an app category built on counting almonds.

Nutria (calorie tracker) is an AI calorie tracking app. It brings in $46,543 a month on 15,426 active subscriptions, 37.1% of the group. A different app, nutrIA (nutrition habits app), is third.

The most subscribers of any market on the list, at about $3 a subscription (estimate). 4 apps clear $10K.

Looks and skincare (mobile): $115,472 a month

Growing over 30 days: up $10,156 (+9.7%), and that is one app. Hairly AI added $13,898 (+103.7%), more than the whole group's net gain. The group's growth chart is one app's haircut.

An unnamed makeup app, listed anonymously, previews makeup looks on your own selfie. It brings in $35,266 a month on 1,243 active subscriptions, 30.5% of the group. It lost $4,150 (-10.5%) over the month.

It sits $1,609 a month above Writing. Exactly 3 apps clear $10K, in a consumer niche that comes and goes.

Writing and documents (web): $113,863 a month

Growing over 30 days: up $10,145 (+9.8%). Laper added $6,586 (+15.6%) of it, about two thirds.

Laper (founder @chunxiangai) is a writing and storyboarding workspace for screenwriters and directors. It brings in $48,709 a month on 1,506 active subscriptions, 42.8% of the group.

Exactly 3 apps clear $10K, and the top 3 hold about 80% of the money.

AI chatbots and customer support (web): $83,342 a month

Flat over 30 days. Underneath, the order nearly flipped.

ChatDash is the biggest app here, at $18,043 a month on 103 active subscriptions, 21.6% of the group. It lost $2,791 (-13.4%) over the month, while Chat Data added $4,063 (+29.9%) to $17,645. The lead is now $398.

Exactly 3 apps clear $10K, all within about $900 of each other. Less a leaderboard than a queue at one till.

AI voice, audio and music (mobile): $81,341 a month

Growing over 30 days: up $7,097 (+9.6%), and that is one app. SoundBoost.ai added $7,074; the other 41 apps together were flat.

SoundBoost.ai (founder @berkan_cesur) does AI music mastering guided by text prompts. It brings in $28,407 a month on 2,773 active subscriptions, 34.9% of the group.

Exactly 3 apps clear $10K, and it's the smallest market on the list.

Rumours that look like a trend

Five groups have 3+ apps at $10K+, but one app holds more than half the money:

• Social media scheduling (web): Postiz holds 51.8% of $657,381. One app in it stopped syncing and is out of the figures.
• E-commerce and Shopify tools (web): Brand On Demand, Inc. holds 65.1% of $274,424. Three apps in it stopped syncing and are out of the figures.
• Resumes and jobs (web): Rezi holds 57.0%.
• Education (web): one anonymous app holds 56.0%.
• Fitness (mobile): one anonymous app holds 60.6%.

At 65.1%, the e-commerce group is less a market than a company town.

What the money looks like

The solid markets all sell to businesses on the web, at roughly $32 to $72 a subscription a month. The mobile consumer ones run at about $3 to $11. These are estimates: monthly revenue divided by active subscriptions. At $72 against $3, one month of a lead gen tool costs about what two years of an AI counting your almonds does.

Why this matters

Our source shows revenue straight from each app's payment provider. When that connection stops, the figure stays where it was. It doesn't drop to zero, so nothing looks wrong. It's a scoreboard still showing August's score. This week, 47 apps in our groups had a payment sync that had stopped, 14 of them showing $10K+ a month. We also took out apps that collected no payments in the last 30 days, and one lead gen app that turned out to be an agency selling done-for-you work, like the other service businesses we leave out. All of them are out of the figures, and we're not naming them.

A listing with a payment connection is about as good as public revenue data gets. It still doesn't tell you the number is from this month. The apps that stopped syncing were among the biggest on the board, so they moved the totals most. A market that rests on one or two of them can disappear overnight. We'd rather show you a smaller board that's current.

You asked

Percent or dollars. One of you said "+139% on a small base can be a single annual plan, so I'd check the customer count."

Another pointed out that "+139% from a small base and +$12K from a big one read very differently."

Fair. The table below shows dollars and subscriptions for every market on the list, and each 30-day change in dollars as well as percent.

Orbitagents: still live.

Pricing signals. One reader asked about this. The data doesn't support an answer, so we're not giving one.

The 10 trends

Revenue reported by TrustMRR, Oct 31, 2026. 30-day change uses TrustMRR's 30-day MRR growth for apps live today. Grouping is our own. Revenue per sub is an estimate. Not investment advice. 56 service businesses and 1 other app excluded.

About the numbers

Only revenue from payment-connected sources counts, and service businesses are left out.

A market counts with 3+ apps at $10K+ a month and no app over half the money; changes cover 30 days.

Only apps live today are counted; apps that shut down during the month aren't.

The lesson this week is a dull one. Before you count a market, check that the money is still coming in. That's often the difference between a real market and a rumour.

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— @AndriusMacikas