Virtual Landline
54
Quality Score
Solid
Virtual Landline
by Buzz Networks
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Virtual Landline is an iOS app from Buzz Networks in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 36 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$683
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$598 – $2155
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$554 – $4984
per month
INDIE tier
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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
6 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
36 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$683
Snapshots tracked
6
since Mar 2026
🤖Also on Android
$229/mo · 320 ratings · 3.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (108 MB) | +$23K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-11079 |
| ⚙ 8.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$48K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 8.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 108 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
40%
Last shipped 2026-04-22 · 162 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
| 📅 5 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (36 ratings) + 8.1y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$683/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$582 – $1.4K
12 months
$598 – $2.2K
24 months
$554 – $5.0K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
3.7
Revenue Strength
2.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $273 - $1709/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.64★ across 36 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $12K-$21K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (26 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (36 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v3.16
Application translation improvement
Application stability improvement
Application stability improvement
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Virtual Landline
- Developer
- Buzz Networks
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.virtuallandline.vl.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, BG, CS, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, FA, PL, PT, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, 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
- $684/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
🌍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
“Virtual Landline” is a business quality Mobile VoIP solution from Buzz Connect that allows you to make high quality calls from your smartphone or tablet using a Wi-Fi or 3G/4G data connection.
Used as a means of avoiding roaming charges away from home, users can experience big savings with calls back to the UK! User to user calls are free.
Why not choose one of our UK landline numbers for inbound calls, or even port your home/office number to make a fully integrated mobile solution?”
***VOIP OVER 3G/4G - IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ***… View full description on the official store →
Used as a means of avoiding roaming charges away from home, users can experience big savings with calls back to the UK! User to user calls are free.
Why not choose one of our UK landline numbers for inbound calls, or even port your home/office number to make a fully integrated mobile solution?”
***VOIP OVER 3G/4G - IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ***… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 108 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.16🔄 updated 5mo ago🌐 AR, BG, CS, DA, NL +21📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (8y old)
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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 +5 high confidence
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.2★ | 5 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 4 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.33333★ | 3 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.71429★ | 14 | 4.71429★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.4549★ | 3,049 | 4.4549★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.85714★ | 14 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.6087★ | 46 | 4.6087★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 36 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Virtual Landline make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Virtual Landline earns approximately $683/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 Virtual Landline profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $683, Virtual Landline looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Virtual Landline?▴
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 Virtual Landline built with?▴
Our heuristic places Virtual Landline on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Virtual Landline still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (40% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Virtual Landline sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $10K – $15K). Calculated as 16× 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 Virtual Landline last updated?▴
Virtual Landline last shipped a new version on 2026-04-22 — 5 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Virtual Landline?▴
Virtual Landline is published by Buzz Networks 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 Virtual Landline's BU Score?▴
Virtual Landline has a BU Score of 54/100 (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.