BlockBear!
74
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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BlockBear! is an iOS app from TunnelBear, LLC in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.7★ across 2,763 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 74: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
119 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
2,763 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
119
since Sep 2015
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.0y 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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 11.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$66K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 11.0y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
145K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
19K
Daily active
8.7K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 19 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2018-02-13 · 3147 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
| 📅 8y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
Below median · 43/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.5
Product Quality
6.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
3.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.66★ across 2,763 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3145d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.46 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (3145d 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 = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($56K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,763 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)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.
🆕 What's New · v1.3.1
This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.
• Fixed an embearassing bug that caused BlockBear to ask you to download block list updates, even when none were available.
• Fixed an embearassing bug that caused BlockBear to ask you to download block list updates, even when none were available.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BlockBear!
- Developer
- TunnelBear, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.tunnelbear.BlockBear
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth2,784 ratings+801% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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
Rawr! BlockBear is a really simple and ferocious adblocking app that allows you to browse the web ad-free and reclaim valuable screen space.
BlockBear:
• Blocks ads (popups, text ads, banners) and removes website clutter
• Loads many websites 3-5x faster saving time and bandwidth
• Protects your privacy from widespread online tracking (cookies, beacons, scripts, etc)
• Lets you choose to block any combination of ads, online tracking and social buttons with a simple switch
• Helps you to conveniently whitelist your favourite websites from within Safari using the BlockBear Safari extension… View full description on the official store →
BlockBear:
• Blocks ads (popups, text ads, banners) and removes website clutter
• Loads many websites 3-5x faster saving time and bandwidth
• Protects your privacy from widespread online tracking (cookies, beacons, scripts, etc)
• Lets you choose to block any combination of ads, online tracking and social buttons with a simple switch
• Helps you to conveniently whitelist your favourite websites from within Safari using the BlockBear Safari extension… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 19 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.3.1🔄 updated 8y ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +13 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.23 → 4.60 (improved 0.37★)
2016-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$95/mo · reviews +13 high confidence
2015-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$154/mo · reviews +21 medium · co-occurring
2015-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$286/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +39 medium · co-occurring
2015-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$68/mo · rating +0.11★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2015-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$68/mo · rating +0.11★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2015-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$68/mo · rating +0.11★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2015-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$68/mo · rating +0.11★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 183 reviews across 3 markets● 67% positive · ● 18% neutral · ● 15% negative · Rating drift: -0.46★ (declining — recent 50: 4.2★ vs lifetime: 4.66★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.45
🇬🇧 GB
+0.45
🇧🇷 BR
+0.17
Top praise themes
block bear ×10 block ads ×5 safari blocker ×4 blocker works ×4 ads safari ×4 works safari ×3 whitelist sites ×3 doesn work ×3
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×8 youtube ads ×5 hasn updated ×3 longer maintained ×3 block ×6 pop ×5 don ×5 now ×5
Risk signals
Fraud / scam mentions: 0.5%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.59113★ | 406 | 4.59113★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.78526★ | 312 | 4.78526★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5873★ | 945 | 4.5873★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.66087★ | 749 | 4.66087★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.58403★ | 839 | 4.58403★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.60904★ | 1,903 | 4.60904★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.63907★ | 906 | 4.63907★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.65772★ | 149 | 4.65772★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.66237★ | 2,790 | 4.66237★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for BlockBear!: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,763 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does BlockBear! make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, BlockBear! earns approximately $5.0K/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 BlockBear! profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $5.0K, BlockBear! looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does BlockBear! have?▴
Estimated audience: ~145K lifetime downloads, ~19K monthly active users, and ~8K 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 BlockBear!?▴
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What is BlockBear! built with?▴
Our heuristic places BlockBear! on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is BlockBear! still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would BlockBear! sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 21× 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 BlockBear! last updated?▴
BlockBear! last shipped a new version on 2018-02-13 — more than 8 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes BlockBear!?▴
BlockBear! is published by TunnelBear, LLC 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 BlockBear!'s BU Score?▴
BlockBear! has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.