Talk to Strangers - Anichat
68
Quality Score
Solid
Talk to Strangers - Anichat
by Idan She
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Talk to Strangers - Anichat is an iOS app from Idan She in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.1★ across 1,761 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking app, that means established niche player. 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
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
56 snapshots on record
Rating
4.1
Reviews
1,761 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
56
since Sep 2019
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 (60 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$38K |
| ⚙ 7.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$42K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× 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 |
| 📅 7.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
110K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
19K
Daily active
10K
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 |
| 📅 7.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
53% 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 | 60 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
88%
Last shipped 2023-02-24 · 1310 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
| 📅 3y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
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
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 · 47/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.2
Operational Safety
0.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Monetization Maturity
9.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.14★ across 1,761 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1310d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 7% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.90 ★ (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 = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($25K/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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,761 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v1.54
- Fixing loading time when coming from background.
- Online users are marked with green ring over their profile picture, this would help you identify users you already talked with which are online.… Full release notes →
- Online users are marked with green ring over their profile picture, this would help you identify users you already talked with which are online.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Talk to Strangers - Anichat
- Developer
- Idan She
- Bundle ID
- com.freespiritlabs.chat
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, ZH, ES
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 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 growth1,867 ratings+186600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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
Talk to strangers: Instantly get connected to chat with a new real person and make new friends. Endless possibilities.
Only REAL persons! No bots! No fake accounts!
Try it and meet new people now - it's quickly, easy and fun!
Instant private chat:
- Select a new user to talk with instantly. Free and unlimited.
- Choose the gender of who you want to initiate a chat with (available for premium subscribers only).
- Private 1 on 1 chat, no other user could see what you share.
Only real persons:
- Talk with real people only. No fake accounts and no bots. Only real users!… View full description on the official store →
Only REAL persons! No bots! No fake accounts!
Try it and meet new people now - it's quickly, easy and fun!
Instant private chat:
- Select a new user to talk with instantly. Free and unlimited.
- Choose the gender of who you want to initiate a chat with (available for premium subscribers only).
- Private 1 on 1 chat, no other user could see what you share.
Only real persons:
- Talk with real people only. No fake accounts and no bots. Only real users!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 60 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.54🔄 updated 3y ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +5📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +52 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +52 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.80 → 4.14 (improved 0.34★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +52 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.16 → 3.80 (improved 1.64★)
2022-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2020-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.27 → 2.67 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.14★ high confidence
2020-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.40★ high confidence
2020-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.86 → 2.25 (improved 0.39★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.27★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2020-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2019-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.33★ high confidence
2019-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #6Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
anonymous chat·#6🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 119 reviews across 4 markets● 38% positive · ● 13% neutral · ● 50% negative · Rating drift: -1.90★ (declining — recent 50: 2.24★ vs lifetime: 4.14★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
-0.03
🇬🇧 GB
-0.14
🇮🇳 IN
-0.24
🇨🇦 CA
-0.38
Top praise themes
fun ×4
Top complaint themes
won let ×8 free trial ×3 don waste ×3 banned banned ×3 start chat ×3 chat anyone ×3 banned reason ×3 pay ×11
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.7% Subscription complaints: 7% Bug mentions: 3% Fraud / scam mentions: 4.2%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.15279★ | 1,885 | 4.15279★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.82014★ | 139 | 3.82014★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.18421★ | 76 | 3.18421★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.04255★ | 47 | 4.04255★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.25★ | 4 | 2.25★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.57843★ | 102 | 3.57843★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Talk to Strangers - Anichat: 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: 1,761 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Talk to Strangers - Anichat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Talk to Strangers - Anichat 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 Talk to Strangers - Anichat profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Talk to Strangers - Anichat looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Talk to Strangers - Anichat have?▴
Estimated audience: ~110K lifetime downloads, ~19K monthly active users, and ~10K 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 Talk to Strangers - Anichat?▴
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 Talk to Strangers - Anichat built with?▴
Our heuristic places Talk to Strangers - Anichat 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 Talk to Strangers - Anichat still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Talk to Strangers - Anichat sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 19× 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 Talk to Strangers - Anichat last updated?▴
Talk to Strangers - Anichat last shipped a new version on 2023-02-24 — more than 3 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Talk to Strangers - Anichat?▴
Talk to Strangers - Anichat is published by Idan She 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 Talk to Strangers - Anichat's BU Score?▴
Talk to Strangers - Anichat has a BU Score of 68/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.