Steam Chat
34
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Steam Chat is an iOS app from Valve in the Social Networking category, currently rated 1.8★ across 1,500 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 34: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Social Networking app, that means early traction worth watching. 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 tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
113 snapshots on record
Rating
1.8
Reviews
1,500 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
113
since Sep 2021
🤖Also on Android
—/mo · 34K ratings · 2.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$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 |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$35K |
| ⚙ 7.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$44K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 7.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
94K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
16K
Daily active
8.8K
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 |
| 📅 7.4y 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)
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 | 36 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
88%
Last shipped 2021-01-06 · 2094 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
| 📅 5y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
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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
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
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
Stalled · 29/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.1
Product Quality
3.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.77★ across 1,500 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2089d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, dormant (2089d since update).
🎯 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. 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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,500 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v1.0.15
- Added support for message reactions
- Other minor bug fixes and performance improvements
- Other minor bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Steam Chat
- Developer
- Valve
- Bundle ID
- com.valvesoftware.Steam.friendsui
- 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
- 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 growth1,577 ratings+253% 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 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
Take your Steam friends, groups, and conversations with you wherever you go.
The Steam Chat app includes many key features of the desktop Steam client chat, including:
Friends List – See who’s in game or online at a glance. You'll see your custom categories and favorites bar just like you can on your PC. (repeated above)
Rich Chat – Your chats get even better with higher fidelity links, videos, tweets, GIFs, Giphy, Steam emoticons, and more.
Invite Links – Add new friends on Steam with a link. Generate an invite link you can text or email.… View full description on the official store →
The Steam Chat app includes many key features of the desktop Steam client chat, including:
Friends List – See who’s in game or online at a glance. You'll see your custom categories and favorites bar just like you can on your PC. (repeated above)
Rich Chat – Your chats get even better with higher fidelity links, videos, tweets, GIFs, Giphy, Steam emoticons, and more.
Invite Links – Add new friends on Steam with a link. Generate an invite link you can text or email.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 36 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v1.0.15🔄 updated 5y ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (7y 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.42 → 1.77 (improved 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +27 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.35★ · reviews +1,003 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2023-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2022-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2022-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.23★ · reviews +40 high confidence
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.64 → 1.79 (dropped 0.85★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.16★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2022-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.24★ high confidence
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.60 (dropped 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.43★ high confidence
2021-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2021-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +1.00★ medium · co-occurring
2021-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.00★ medium · co-occurring
2021-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +1.00★ medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 787 reviews across 9 markets● 28% positive · ● 22% neutral · ● 50% negative · Rating drift: -0.07★ (stable — recent 50: 1.7★ vs lifetime: 1.77★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇫🇷 FR
+0.03
🇦🇺 AU
+0.01
🇮🇳 IN
-0.02
🇯🇵 JP
-0.02
🇺🇸 US
-0.11
🇧🇷 BR
-0.14
🇨🇦 CA
-0.15
🇬🇧 GB
-0.18
🇩🇪 DE
-0.32
Top praise themes
works fine ×5 friends ×10 its ×9 mobile ×7 update ×7 it's ×5 don ×5 message ×5
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×73 failed connect ×51 problem logging ×36 nicht mehr ×22 connect failed ×19 please fix ×15 longer works ×15 friends network ×12
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 13%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1.84821★ | 112 | 1.84821★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.08602★ | 93 | 2.08602★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.45741★ | 317 | 1.45741★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1.46701★ | 394 | 1.46701★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.22222★ | 54 | 2.22222★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1.96078★ | 204 | 1.96078★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.58333★ | 24 | 2.58333★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1.75862★ | 58 | 1.75862★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.79619★ | 1,575 | 1.79619★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Steam Chat: 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 medium confidence: 1,500 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Steam Chat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Steam Chat 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 Steam Chat profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Steam Chat 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 Steam Chat have?▴
Estimated audience: ~94K lifetime downloads, ~16K monthly active users, and ~8K 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 Steam Chat?▴
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What is Steam Chat built with?▴
Our heuristic places Steam Chat 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 Steam Chat still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Steam Chat sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). 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 Steam Chat last updated?▴
Steam Chat last shipped a new version on 2021-01-06 — more than 5 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Steam Chat?▴
Steam Chat is published by Valve 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 Steam Chat's BU Score?▴
Steam Chat has a BU Score of 34/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.