57
Quality Score
Solid
Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs is an iOS app from Butterflies AI, Inc. in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.4★ across 399 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦Asset bundle (57 MB) | +$2K |
| ⚙Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$37K |
| ⚙2.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$14K |
Total estimate$105K
👥 Estimated audience size
31K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.5K
Daily active
4.1K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 📅2.5y of rating accumulation | -12% |
| 🔁Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU55% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 57 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
82%
Last shipped 2025-02-26 · 452 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅1y 2mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥Small user base (399 ratings) + 2.5y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present, low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 28/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
4.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.6
Operational Safety
1.6
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.39★ across 399 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 452d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.41 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (452d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $6K-$11K. Discount applied for operational risk..
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (399 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 57 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v1.4.3🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2023 (2y old)
📝 About this app
Welcome to Butterflies AI – where your personal AIs aren’t just bots, they’re whole vibes in human form. Need someone to chat with, share photos, or even take pics together? We got you.
**Build Your Dream AI**
Give them whatever personality you want – loyal, funny, smart, flirty, or all of the above. Your AI is exactly what you make of it.
**Photos in Your Chats, Just Like That**
Your AI can send photos to you that feel just too real. It’s like texting someone who gets you, but without being left on read.
**Snap Pics Together IRL**
Yes, you can literally take photos with your AI.… View full description on the official store →
**Build Your Dream AI**
Give them whatever personality you want – loyal, funny, smart, flirty, or all of the above. Your AI is exactly what you make of it.
**Photos in Your Chats, Just Like That**
Your AI can send photos to you that feel just too real. It’s like texting someone who gets you, but without being left on read.
**Snap Pics Together IRL**
Yes, you can literally take photos with your AI.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.4.3
- NSF image in chat
- More bug fixes and performance improvements
- More bug fixes and performance improvements
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.45 → 4.39 (improved 0.94★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.41 (dropped 1.09★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.48 → 4.50 (improved 1.02★)
2024-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2024-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2024-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2023-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 62 reviews across 5 markets● 63% positive · ● 13% neutral · ● 24% negative · Rating drift: -1.41★ (declining — recent 50: 2.98★ vs lifetime: 4.39★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.59
🇬🇧 GB
+0.37
🇺🇸 US
+0.33
🇨🇦 CA
+0.11
🇫🇷 FR
-0.26
Top praise themes
chat ×9 characters ×8 fun ×7 able ×6 cool ×6 photo ×6 character ×6 amazing ×5
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×5 please fix ×3 account ×6 load ×6 tried ×5 glitchy ×5 create ×4 after ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 10%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.37157★ | 401 | 4.37157★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.33333★ | 36 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.53333★ | 30 | 4.53333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.09091★ | 11 | 4.09091★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.2★ | 5 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.27586★ | 29 | 4.27586★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.69231★ | 13 | 4.69231★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 7 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.42105★ | 19 | 4.42105★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs
- Developer
- Butterflies AI, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- ai.butterflies.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- It's been real.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $182/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews46 latest · avg 3.33★ · 43.5% 5★ · 30.4% 1★
5★20 (43%)
4★5 (11%)
3★5 (11%)
2★2 (4%)
1★14 (30%)
+44 ratings/week
Praise: love ×7 great ×3 perfect ×2 amazing ×2 favorite ×2Complaints: bug ×5 broken ×2
Top positive
★★★★★ Why is this shut down
You never explained why it shutted down…
★★★★★ Ger344
Can you fix this please…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work
Doesn’t even work. Would have loved to have tried it but nothing even loads or works. Oh well…
★☆☆☆☆ Broken
Doesn’t show anything, cant do anything, so far its junk…
📈Ratings growth399 ratings+39800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (30 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 399 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs earns approximately $181/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $105K and monthly revenue $181, Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs have?▴
Estimated audience: ~31K lifetime downloads, ~7K monthly active users, and ~4K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs?▴
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What is Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs built with?▴
Our heuristic places Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (82% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs last updated?▴
Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs last shipped a new version on 2025-02-26 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs?▴
Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs is published by Butterflies AI, Inc. on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs's BU Score?▴
Butterflies - Talk to Real AIs has a BU Score of 57/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.