Second Texting Number
80
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Second Texting Number is an iOS app from Torqued Studios LLC in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.6★ across 63,353 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Social Networking 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
166 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
63,353 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
166
since Feb 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.3y 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 |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$35K |
| ⚙ 9.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$54K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~0.7× 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 |
| 📅 9.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
565K
Daily active
310K
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 |
| 📅 9.1y 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)
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 | 14 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-04 · 27 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
| 📅 27 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
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 · 52/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
7.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
8.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.58★ across 63,353 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.5% refund mentions, 5% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected.
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($34K/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 15 of 15 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (63,353 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v4.2.3
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Second Texting Number
- Developer
- Torqued Studios LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.alloy.texting
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- 🇺🇸#81 /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 growth65,451 ratings+14575% 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 Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #81 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#81 now · best #81 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
CHOOSE YOUR NEW NUMBER
Get a phone number with any available area code.
UNLIMITED TEXTING
Send and receive unlimited text messages to any US phone number. This includes photo messages.
RECEIVE VERIFICATION CODES
Your number can be used to receive verification codes for account registrations. Not compatible with all services.
PRIVACY PROTECTED
Keep your real number private when shopping, dating, or selling online. Use your second number to stay protected.
GROUP TEXTING
Seamlessly create and participate in group text messaging.
NO ADS
Uninterrupted texting without any disruptive ads.… View full description on the official store →
Get a phone number with any available area code.
UNLIMITED TEXTING
Send and receive unlimited text messages to any US phone number. This includes photo messages.
RECEIVE VERIFICATION CODES
Your number can be used to receive verification codes for account registrations. Not compatible with all services.
PRIVACY PROTECTED
Keep your real number private when shopping, dating, or selling online. Use your second number to stay protected.
GROUP TEXTING
Seamlessly create and participate in group text messaging.
NO ADS
Uninterrupted texting without any disruptive ads.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 14 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v4.2.3🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 — v4.2.1 → v4.2.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +440 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2 → v4.2.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.2K/mo · reviews +1,658 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +963 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 4.50 (improved 1.17★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$854/mo · rating +1.17★ · reviews +61,816 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$854/mo · rating +1.17★ · reviews +61,816 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$854/mo · rating +1.17★ · reviews +61,817 medium · co-occurring
2023-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +26 high confidence
2023-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +45 high confidence
2023-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2023-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ · reviews +18 high confidence
2023-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.58 → 3.95 (dropped 0.63★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.19★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.63★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2023-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.85★ · reviews +15 high confidence
2023-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.22★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2023-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.22★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2023-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #32Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
messaging·#32🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 523 reviews across 4 markets● 63% positive · ● 10% neutral · ● 26% negative · Rating drift: -1.70★ (declining — recent 50: 2.88★ vs lifetime: 4.58★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.32
🇺🇸 US
+0.30
🇦🇺 AU
-0.01
🇬🇧 GB
-0.05
Top praise themes
highly recommend ×10 free works ×4 free trial ×3 easy easy ×3 super easy ×3 awesome ×31 text ×23 service ×15
Top complaint themes
free trial ×46 doesn work ×20 trial period ×10 stopped working ×8 customer service ×7 let send ×6 canceled subscription ×6 send messages ×6
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.5% Subscription complaints: 5% Fraud / scam mentions: 8.0%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.14035★ | 57 | 4.14035★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.2★ | 5 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.42746★ | 517 | 4.42746★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.92857★ | 14 | 3.92857★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.15★ | 20 | 4.15★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.50968★ | 155 | 4.50968★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.5★ | 2 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.57322★ | 65,597 | 4.57322★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Second Texting Number: 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 high confidence: 63,353 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Second Texting Number make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Second Texting Number 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 Second Texting Number profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Second Texting Number looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.3 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Second Texting Number have?▴
Estimated audience: ~4.0M lifetime downloads, ~565K monthly active users, and ~310K 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 Second Texting Number?▴
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What is Second Texting Number built with?▴
Our heuristic places Second Texting Number 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 Second Texting Number still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 27 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Second Texting Number sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 Second Texting Number last updated?▴
Second Texting Number last shipped a new version on 2026-09-04 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Second Texting Number?▴
Second Texting Number is published by Torqued Studios 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 Second Texting Number's BU Score?▴
Second Texting Number has a BU Score of 80/100 (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.