Pharos Pro
42
Quality Score
Emerging
Pharos Pro
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pharos Pro is an iOS app from Pharos Limited Co.,Ltd in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.2★ across 104 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 42: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$3.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.8K – $10.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.6K – $23.1K
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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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
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$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 (134 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-12627 |
Total estimate$70K
👥 Estimated audience size
20K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.1K
Daily active
820
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
| 📲Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$2.7K – $6.3K
12 months
$2.8K – $10.0K
24 months
$2.6K – $23.1K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
4.5
Revenue Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $7K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.18★ across 104 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $57K-$101K.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (104 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 →💾 134 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.8.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, JA, ZH, ZH📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📝 About this app
*THIS APPLICATION DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY SERVER SIDE SERVICE*
Pharos Pro is a simple but powerful proxy client.
You can configure which traffics route to proxy servers,Its core value is to provide the most secure proxy, The NEVPNManager API gives Pharos Pro the ability to create and manage a Personal proxy configuration on iOS.
It can capture all HTTP/HTTPS/TCP traffic from any applications on your device, and redirect to an HTTP/SOCK5 proxy server following highly configurable rules.
# Feature:… View full description on the official store →
Pharos Pro is a simple but powerful proxy client.
You can configure which traffics route to proxy servers,Its core value is to provide the most secure proxy, The NEVPNManager API gives Pharos Pro the ability to create and manage a Personal proxy configuration on iOS.
It can capture all HTTP/HTTPS/TCP traffic from any applications on your device, and redirect to an HTTP/SOCK5 proxy server following highly configurable rules.
# Feature:… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.8.7
- 支持更多协议及参数
- 修复各类bug
- 优化测速
- 修复各类bug
- 优化测速
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.52 → 3.20 (dropped 0.32★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2025-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.56 (dropped 0.44★)
2019-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pharos Pro
- Developer
- Pharos Limited Co.,Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.pharospro.kuaizhu
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA, ZH, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
📈Ratings growth104 ratings+5100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pharos Pro: 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: 104 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pharos Pro make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pharos Pro earns approximately $86/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.
What apps are like Pharos Pro?▴
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Who makes Pharos Pro?▴
Pharos Pro is published by Pharos Limited Co.,Ltd 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 Pharos Pro's BU Score?▴
Pharos Pro has a BU Score of 42/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.