GroupMe is Microsoft's free group messaging app, and Google Search interest for the keyword groupme printed 75 the week of August 22 2026. That is up 27.12% from 59 on August 15 and up 56.25% from 48 on July 25, per Trends MCP get_growth on google search. The 261-week get_time_series on the same source runs from August 28 2021 (first print 83) through August 22 2026. Native Android app downloads for com.groupme.android did rise 37.04% over 30 days, but the daily curve is too jagged to read, so this page charts search. The same week in 2025 printed 84. The climb is the back-to-school one, not a one-day spike.
About GroupMe
GroupMe is a free group messaging app for iOS, Android, and the web. Microsoft Support says people without smartphones can join by SMS in the United States. Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci built it as Grouply at TechCrunch Disrupt in May 2010, renamed it GroupMe that August, and shipped it on the App Store in October, per Wikipedia. Skype bought the company in August 2011 for about $80 million according to The Wall Street Journal; Business Insider printed $85 million. Microsoft announced its Skype purchase in May 2011 and closed it in October.
Consumer Skype retired on May 5 2025. GroupMe stayed. On March 12 2025, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said the app had millions of users in over 70 percent of colleges in the United States, with Copilot inside the product. GroupMe Campus needs a verified college or university email, per Microsoft Support. The changelog lists v15.70 in May 2026 and v16.0 in August 2026. Wikipedia puts the group cap at 5,000 after a 2019 change from 100.
What the time series shows
Google Search interest for groupme printed 75 on August 22 2026, 25% below the all-time peak of 100 on September 3 2022. Last eight weekly prints are 36, 41, 42, 48, 45, 52, 59, and 75. Closest 30-day point is 48 on July 25 (+56.25%). Closest 90-day point is 41 on May 23 (+82.93%). Same week of the year: 84 on August 23 2025, 74 on August 24 2024, 75 on August 26 2023, 94 on August 27 2022.
The chart window starts August 24 2024 so two school-year cycles stay in view. Fall prints hit 93 on September 14 2024 and 96 on September 6 2025. Winter prints fall to 33 on November 29 2025 and 20 on December 27 2025, then rebuild in January (24 on January 3 2026, 67 on January 31). That calendar is why the query will be searched next quarter. 75 is not a new peak. It sits in the same August band as 2023 and 2024, behind last year's 96.
Why the page charts Google Search
App downloads for the Android bundle ID com.groupme.android gained 37.04% over 30 days, from a 2.7 index (19,747 installs) on July 26 2026 to 3.7 (27,065 installs) on August 26, but that daily series is not chartable. The same source printed 100 on March 27 2026, 739,979 installs against a typical day in the 10,000 to 30,000 range, then returned to 3.2 two days later. Multiple summer days print 0. The 7-day app-download change is -42.19% (6.4 on August 18 to 3.7 on August 26). YouTube for groupme is 6 on August 22, up from 1 a week earlier and down 81.25% from 32 on July 25. TikTok has no series. App rankings returns no data. Google Search is the fallback that actually tells the story: 261 weekly points, a readable August direction, week-to-week moves that stay in a band a stranger can parse in one glance.
The App Store Top Free board listed GroupMe at rank 25 as of 2026-08-27T04:01:37Z, next to other back-to-school apps: ParentSquare at 6, Canvas by Instructure at 15, WhatsApp Messenger at 8, and Microsoft Teams at 10. Nearby Google Search neighbors on the same pull date moved with the calendar too. classdojo is +253.85% over 30 days (13 to 46), parentsquare is +178.57% (28 to 78), and canvas login is +168.42% (19 to 51). discord is +8.54% (82 to 89). whatsapp is -4.69% (64 to 61). microsoft teams is -31.37% (51 to 35). GroupMe sits in the school-chat cluster, not the household-messenger cluster that WhatsApp occupies.
The Trends MCP calls for this keyword
get_time_series with source google search and keyword groupme is the call behind the chart: 261 weekly points from 2021-08-28 through 2026-08-22, stored as {date, value} with no smoothing. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D and 30D, is the headline math: 59 to 75 (+27.12%) and 48 to 75 (+56.25%). Those two tools have to share a source. Mixing the YouTube 6 with the search 75 would invent a story the APIs do not tell. get_top_trends on App Store Top Free supplies the rank-25 context and the neighbor apps. The Google Search data source page documents the 0-100 weekly index. Related topic pages for Discord and ClassDojo sit on the same back-to-school calendar.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="google search" keyword="groupme"
get_growth source="google search" keyword="groupme" percent_growth=["7D","30D"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth. This run's MCP and REST weekly prints matched: last eight weeks 36, 41, 42, 48, 45, 52, 59, 75, latest 75 on 2026-08-22. The JSON at topics/data/groupme.json keeps the full series. The PNG window starts at 2024-08-24, labeled Last 2 years, so the chart shows two complete school-year cycles plus the 2026 climb instead of five years of Thanksgiving holes.