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  • The biggest climbers in the ChatGPT and Claude top charts
  • Notable launches, and how many apps were removed
  • One chart worth reading, with a short note from the OpenApps team
  • New guides and research before they're anywhere else

A sample issue

OpenAppsThe AI app stores, week of October 28, 2026

Biggest AI app climbers this week: new ChatGPT apps, NetSuite and n8n

KiasuMiles, a ChatGPT app that picks the best miles credit card, was the biggest climber in the AI app stores in the week to Oct 28, 2026, from #355 to #77 in Finance. Eight of the 20 biggest climbers launched in September, and on Claude, NetSuite and n8n each rose more than 100 places.

Biggest climb
278 placesKiasuMiles, #355 to #77
Top 20 climbers launched in September
8the rest launched earlier
Apps new to a top 10
4812 of them OpenAI's

This week in ChatGPT apps: a 63-app shelf reshuffle

ChatGPT listed 288 new apps in the week of Oct 19 to Oct 25, 2026, and none of them was on a home shelf by Oct 28. The shelves moved anyway: on Oct 28, 2026, 63 apps entered 15 of ChatGPT's 16 US home shelves in one reshuffle, bringing Booking.com and iCloud Mail onto the home page and adding Figma to Creativity.

Shelf entries
7616 US shelves, Oct 21 to Oct 28
Entries on Oct 28 alone
63of 76
Slots held all window
76 of 14471 distinct apps

This week in plugins: Oracle, J.P. Morgan and LinkedIn ship to Claude

Claude added 13 plugins and connectors in the week of Oct 19 to 25, with Oracle NetSuite, J.P. Morgan Asset Management and LinkedIn among the publishers. OpenApps counted 6 plugins and 7 connectors there, and on Cursor, 2 new plugins and 122 directory listings from Oct 23 to Oct 25, 2026, the only days we could read.

Claude launches
136 plugins, 7 connectors
Cursor plugins launched
2Oct 23 to 25 only
Biggest Cursor climb
#33 to #2WordPress rule, directory trending