InDating - Dating and Chat
73
Quality Score
Strong
InDating - Dating and Chat
by Dmitry Merva
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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InDating - Dating and Chat is an iOS app from Dmitry Merva in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,979 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking app, that means healthy traction. 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
$8.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.3K – $19.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.5K – $34.4K
per month
MID tierFREE
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
26 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
1,979 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$8.9K
Snapshots tracked
26
since Mar 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$205K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $155K – $275K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.9y at current MRR
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 (123 MB) | +$29K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$55K |
| ⚙ 11.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$67K |
Total estimate
$205K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 11.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
120K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
13K
Daily active
7.1K
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 |
| 📅 11.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 123 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2026-01-29 · 240 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 8 months since last update | Concerning gap |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.5K – $14.2K
12 months
$9.3K – $19.4K
24 months
$11.5K – $34.4K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 35/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
6.9
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.64★ across 1,979 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 237d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.25 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $107K-$196K. Portfolio play ($14K/mo combined) commands premium. 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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (1,979 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- InDating - Dating and Chat
- Developer
- Dmitry Merva
- Bundle ID
- com.ionicframework.vznakomstve
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, DE, RU, UK
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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $8.9K/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.
📈Ratings growth2,179 ratings+217800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (26 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
📝 About this app
App for finding new people for friendship, chatting and relationships.
No subscriptions or hidden pays, all the basic functions necessary for dating are provided for free!
Provides:
- user profiles;
- liking and admiration;
- virtual gifts;
- convenient chatting system;
- viewing guests and fans;
- rating system;
- reputation system;
- VIP status, etc.
No subscriptions or hidden pays, all the basic functions necessary for dating are provided for free!
Provides:
- user profiles;
- liking and admiration;
- virtual gifts;
- convenient chatting system;
- viewing guests and fans;
- rating system;
- reputation system;
- VIP status, etc.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 123 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 12.4+🔖 v3.2.6🔄 updated 8mo ago🌐 EN, DE, RU, UK📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 ↑ 3.22 → 4.64 (improved 1.42★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +44 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +44 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.39 → 3.22 (dropped 1.17★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.0K/mo · rating +0.25★ · reviews +100 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.0K/mo · rating −1.17★ · reviews −1,858 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.14 → 4.39 (improved 1.25★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.0K/mo · rating −1.17★ · reviews −1,858 high confidence
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ high confidence
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.24★ high confidence
2024-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 2.71 (improved 0.38★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.29★ high confidence
2024-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.60 (improved 0.60★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.71★ low · multiple changes
2024-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.60★ medium · co-occurring
2024-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.33★ high confidence
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.67★ high confidence
2023-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 31 reviews across 3 markets● 58% positive · ● 13% neutral · ● 29% negative · Rating drift: -1.25★ (declining — recent 50: 3.39★ vs lifetime: 4.64★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.59
🇺🇸 US
+0.20
🇩🇪 DE
-0.87
Top praise themes
application ×5
Top complaint themes
fake ×6 nutzer ×5 site ×4 scammers ×4 something ×4 die ×4 try ×3 photos ×3
Risk signals
Fraud / scam mentions: 9.7%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.54545★ | 11 | 4.54545★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3★ | 1 | 3★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.73332★ | 15 | 4.73332★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5★ | 24 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 10 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.38462★ | 39 | 4.38462★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.3★ | 10 | 4.3★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.33333★ | 3 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.63732★ | 2,181 | 4.63732★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for InDating - Dating and Chat: 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: 1,979 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does InDating - Dating and Chat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, InDating - Dating and Chat earns approximately $8.9K/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 InDating - Dating and Chat profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $205K and monthly revenue $8.9K, InDating - Dating and Chat looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does InDating - Dating and Chat have?▴
Estimated audience: ~120K lifetime downloads, ~13K monthly active users, and ~7K 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 InDating - Dating and Chat?▴
Browse the full Social Networking category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is InDating - Dating and Chat built with?▴
Our heuristic places InDating - Dating and Chat on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is InDating - Dating and Chat still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would InDating - Dating and Chat sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $175K (marketplace range $125K – $225K). Calculated as 20× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was InDating - Dating and Chat last updated?▴
InDating - Dating and Chat last shipped a new version on 2026-01-29 — 8 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes InDating - Dating and Chat?▴
InDating - Dating and Chat is published by Dmitry Merva 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 InDating - Dating and Chat's BU Score?▴
InDating - Dating and Chat has a BU Score of 73/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.