OpenAI recently took the wraps off the Sora 2 video generation model, introducing significant enhancements over its first-gen counterpart. The ChatGPT developer also launched a standalone Sora app at the end of September. However, the app is available only to Apple iPhone users.

Well, it has been nearly two weeks, and OpenAI evidently wants to waste no time in letting the Android audience join the action. As noted by our founder Artem Russakovskii on X/Twitter, the Sora app has just gone up on the Google Play Store, but you can’t download it just yet.

The video generation app for Android is accepting pre-registrations exclusively for users in the US and Canada via the Play Store. Similarly, the Sora app for iPhone is also available only to people in these two regions.

Sora is more than just a video generation app

You will still be able to see the listing if you live outside the US or Canada, albeit with a “This item isn’t available in your country” disclaimer. We’re getting a glimpse of what the app will look like in action, though the images here are identical to the screenshots you’ll find on the Sora App Store page.

The Sora smartphone app is not just an ordinary text-to-video generating tool. As the company noted in its announcement, there’s also a big emphasis on giving users a “customizable Sora feed” of clips, similar to social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram.

To this end, the app contains a feature known as “cameos,” which lets you or your friends use each other’s likenesses in AI videos. This requires “a short one-time video-and-audio recording in the app to verify your identity and capture your likeness,” the company notes. On the privacy and safety front, a support document states that users can manage who can use their likeness in cameos.

One might say Sora is somewhat late to the party, given that Android users have been able to generate videos using Google’s powerful Veo model for a while now. The recent release of Veo 3 was a game-changer for Google, as it introduced multiple advancements to the model, including audio generation.