Free VPN by Free VPN .org™
83
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ is an iOS app from Free VPN LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.5★ across 450,295 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 83: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
25 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
450,295 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
25
since Mar 2026
🤖Also on Android
$177/mo · 176K ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (61 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-8235 |
| ⚙ 11.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$65K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$11.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~96× return on build cost
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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
63.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.8M
Daily active
1.1M
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 |
| 📅 11.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 61 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-21 · 49 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
| 📅 49 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.2
Product Quality
9.0
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.52★ across 450,295 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (450,295 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (36 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v4.056
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We’ve improved performance across the app, so your VPN connects faster and runs more smoothly and reliably. Smarter traffic optimization helps keep your connection fast and stable from the moment you connect.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Free VPN by Free VPN .org™
- Developer
- Free VPN LLC
- Bundle ID
- org.freevpn.vpn
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BE, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UZ, VI
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
- $600K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#6 /100 🇦🇺#20 /100 🇺🇸#40 /100 🇩🇪#57 /100 🇨🇦#67 /100 🇫🇷#84 /100
- 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 growth456,001 ratings+2% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (25 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇬🇧GB#6 /100
🇦🇺AU#20 /100
🇺🇸US#40 /100
🇩🇪DE#57 /100
🇨🇦CA#67 /100
🇫🇷FR#84 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#6 now · best #6 · worst #6
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 releases tracked
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
Free VPN, the #1 VPN for secure browsing on iPhone, iPad & Mac. Trusted by 82+ million users worldwide, with one-tap access to 1000+ high-speed servers in 40+ countries. No sign-up, no logs, no hassle, just fast, private browsing on any network.
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 61 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v4.056🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, BE, CA, HR, CS +31📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.051 → v4.056
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,195 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.050 → v4.051
→ 30 days after: reviews +283 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.049 → v4.050
→ 30 days after: revenue +$20.1K/mo · reviews +764 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.047 → v4.049
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,753 high confidence
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #5Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
vpn·#5🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.1536★ | 9,603 | 4.1536★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.45015★ | 1,344 | 4.45015★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.28066★ | 23,110 | 4.28066★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.2329★ | 15,466 | 4.2329★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.37085★ | 8,548 | 4.37085★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.25605★ | 61,578 | 4.25605★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.28913★ | 11,635 | 4.28913★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.11818★ | 990 | 4.11818★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.52334★ | 458,269 | 4.52334★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Free VPN by Free VPN .org™: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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Lead-app heavy — top app contributes 71%
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 450,295 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ earns approximately $600K/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 Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $600K, Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ have?▴
Estimated audience: ~63.0M lifetime downloads, ~5.8M monthly active users, and ~1.1M 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 Free VPN by Free VPN .org™?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ built with?▴
Our heuristic places Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $11.0M (marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M). Calculated as 18× 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 Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ last updated?▴
Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ last shipped a new version on 2026-09-21 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Free VPN by Free VPN .org™?▴
Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ is published by Free VPN 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 Free VPN by Free VPN .org™'s BU Score?▴
Free VPN by Free VPN .org™ has a BU Score of 83/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.