32
BU Score
Emerging
PURPLE: Play, Chat, and Stream
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PURPLE: Play, Chat, and Stream is an iOS app from NCSOFT in the Social Networking category, currently rated 2.4★ across 42 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 32: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Social Networking app, that means early traction worth watching.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (42 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 171 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v6.52.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, ID, JA +8📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2021 (4y old)
📝 About this app
Unleash your play, PURPLE
PURPLE is a gaming platform provided by NC to create an optimal environment with various convenience features for users.
#Core Convenience Features
1. PURPLE Talk
Chat anytime, anywhere with your clan members using the Clan Chat
Share your situation with clan members who aren't logged into the game and experience the moments of glorious battles together.
2. PURPLE Live
Without installing any additional programs, you can stream your game screen or watch a friend's game screen with a simple command, and enjoy a livelier game together.
3. PURPLE Lounge
PURPLE Lounge is a space where you can easily check game notices and news.
You can quickly check game-related contents from a mobile environment via PURPLE Lounge.
In addition to news about game updates, the service will provide
various contents including those created by PURPLE editors.
The service will expand into other countries one at a time.
#More PURPLE News
Official Website: https://www.nc.com/
# About Service Permissions: Optional Permissions
ㆍ Photo: To send and save photos
ㆍ Camera: To take and send photos
ㆍ Microphone: To join a voice chat
ㆍ Notifications: To receive notifications on in-game information and advertisement notifications
ㆍ Biometrics: To authenticate with Fingerprint/Face ID
* We may request device access permissions when necessary. You can deny permissions and still use the service.
* How to deny permission: Go to Device Settings > Privacy > select relevant access permission.
PURPLE is a gaming platform provided by NC to create an optimal environment with various convenience features for users.
#Core Convenience Features
1. PURPLE Talk
Chat anytime, anywhere with your clan members using the Clan Chat
Share your situation with clan members who aren't logged into the game and experience the moments of glorious battles together.
2. PURPLE Live
Without installing any additional programs, you can stream your game screen or watch a friend's game screen with a simple command, and enjoy a livelier game together.
3. PURPLE Lounge
PURPLE Lounge is a space where you can easily check game notices and news.
You can quickly check game-related contents from a mobile environment via PURPLE Lounge.
In addition to news about game updates, the service will provide
various contents including those created by PURPLE editors.
The service will expand into other countries one at a time.
#More PURPLE News
Official Website: https://www.nc.com/
# About Service Permissions: Optional Permissions
ㆍ Photo: To send and save photos
ㆍ Camera: To take and send photos
ㆍ Microphone: To join a voice chat
ㆍ Notifications: To receive notifications on in-game information and advertisement notifications
ㆍ Biometrics: To authenticate with Fingerprint/Face ID
* We may request device access permissions when necessary. You can deny permissions and still use the service.
* How to deny permission: Go to Device Settings > Privacy > select relevant access permission.
🆕 What's New · v6.52.0
Fixed bugs and improved performances.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PURPLE: Play, Chat, and Stream
- Developer
- NCSOFT
- Bundle ID
- com.ncsoft.community
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, ID, JA, KO, PL, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, VI
Company
- Website
- www.nc.com
- Tagline
- NC - Welcome to a New world Connected Through Joy
- Description
- From MMORPGs like Lineage, AION, Blade & Soul, and THRONE AND LIBERTY to casual, shooting, and action titles, NC connects the world through play.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $83/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth42 ratings+4100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (12 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PURPLE: Play, Chat, and Stream: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.