Disney+
77
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This Entertainment app serves the premium video streaming niche, directly competing with major players like Netflix, Max, and Prime Video. Its substantial rating count and high average rating indicate strong user satisfaction and significant market penetration. Despite its "free" monetization tag, the estimated monthly revenue of ~$441 suggests a subscription-based model where the app itself is free to download, but content access requires a paid subscription. This revenue figure, while seemingly low for a brand of this caliber, likely reflects only a fraction of total subscription income, possibly from in-app purchases or specific regional billing, rather than all direct subscription revenue. Given its release in 2019 and consistent updates, Disney+ is firmly in the mature growth stage, leveraging a vast content library for retention. A key monetization observation in this category is the shift towards bundled subscriptions (e.g., Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+) to increase average revenue per user and reduce churn, a strategy Disney+ actively employs.
BU Score 77 · Strong — healthy traction. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.1M – $6.8M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$5.7M – $8.6M
per month
MEGA 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
6 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
1,975,815 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0M
Snapshots tracked
6
since Apr 2026
🤖Also on Android
$114/mo · 5.1M ratings · 4.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (285 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 6.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$41K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$99.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75.0M – $129.5M · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~663× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅 6.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
165.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
17.5M
Daily active
7.8M
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 6.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | 285 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-23 · 3 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
| 📅 3 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$4.9M – $6.0M
12 months
$5.1M – $6.8M
24 months
$5.7M – $8.6M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 68/100MEGA TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
6.7
Product Quality
7.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
9.2
Operational Safety
6.3
Founder Strength
7.6
Monetization Maturity
9.5
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $2.0M - $10.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.59★ across 1,975,815 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 9% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -3.01 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 18-32× monthly = $90.0M-$160.0M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,975,815 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (28 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Established app (6y 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 · v5.18.0
Disney+ now has even more content on our never-ending quest to create and share the best stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic. We will continue to be a place for you to feel something with every story, whatever your mood, wherever you might be.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Disney+
- Developer
- Disney
- Bundle ID
- com.disney.disneyplus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Disney+ | Stream Movies, TV Shows, Documentaries & More | U.S. Site
- Description
- Access your favorite entertainment with Disney+. Disney+ is the streaming home for Disney, Hulu, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Nat Geo, and so much more.
- 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
- $5.0M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#2 /100 🇦🇺#2 /100 🇫🇷#3 /100 🇨🇦#3 /100 🇺🇸#5 /99 🇩🇪#5 /100 🇧🇷#5 /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.
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank8 countries
🇬🇧GB#2 /100
🇦🇺AU#2 /100
🇫🇷FR#3 /100
🇨🇦CA#3 /100
🇺🇸US#5 /99
🇩🇪DE#5 /100
🇧🇷BR#5 /100
🇯🇵JP#12 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#2 now · best #2 · worst #2
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Disney+ is the streaming home of your favorite stories. With beloved movies and series from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, there's always something to explore. Stream the latest movie releases, exclusive Original series, and highly anticipated matchups all in Disney+.
Stream Originals like Marvel Studios’ Loki and fan favorites like Encanto and The Simpsons.
With a Disney+ subscription plan you will get to experience:
• Exclusive new Originals from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.… View full description on the official store →
Stream Originals like Marvel Studios’ Loki and fan favorites like Encanto and The Simpsons.
With a Disney+ subscription plan you will get to experience:
• Exclusive new Originals from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 285 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.5+🔖 v5.18.0🔄 updated 3d ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, DA, NL +23📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (6y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.13.0 → v5.15.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +926 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.10.1 → v5.13.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$212/mo · reviews +2,341 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.8.0 → v5.10.1
→ 30 days after: revenue −$212/mo · reviews +2,891 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v5.8.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +5,424 high confidence
2026-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,948 high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 750 reviews across 7 markets● 32% positive · ● 22% neutral · ● 46% negative · Rating drift: -3.01★ (declining — recent 50: 1.58★ vs lifetime: 4.59★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇯🇵 JP
+0.04
🇺🇸 US
-0.04
🇧🇷 BR
-0.04
🇬🇧 GB
-0.13
🇨🇦 CA
-0.19
🇦🇺 AU
-0.23
🇩🇪 DE
-0.48
Top praise themes
poo poo ×8 different ads ×5 movies shows ×5 please put ×4 same ads ×4 shows movies ×4 please add ×4 ads ads ×3
Top complaint themes
ads ads ×30 doesn work ×20 nicht mehr ×16 streaming service ×14 watch ads ×14 ads minutes ×11 worst streaming ×11 over over ×10
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.5% Subscription complaints: 9% Bug mentions: 4% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.8%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.58974★ | 1,976,067 | 4.58974★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69141★ | 318,803 | 4.69141★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.59807★ | 178,558 | 4.59807★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64586★ | 186,588 | 4.64586★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.70596★ | 349,902 | 4.70596★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.64742★ | 266,703 | 4.64742★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.64306★ | 279,695 | 4.64306★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.62612★ | 119,453 | 4.62612★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Disney+: 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: 1,975,815 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Disney+ make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Disney+ earns approximately $5.0M/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 Disney+ profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $150K and monthly revenue $5.0M, Disney+ looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Disney+ have?▴
Estimated audience: ~165.5M lifetime downloads, ~17.5M monthly active users, and ~7.8M 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 Disney+?▴
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What is Disney+ built with?▴
Our heuristic places Disney+ on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Disney+ still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Disney+ sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $99.5M (marketplace range $75.0M – $129.5M). 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 Disney+ last updated?▴
Disney+ last shipped a new version on 2026-09-23 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Disney+?▴
Disney+ is published by Disney 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 Disney+'s BU Score?▴
Disney+ has a BU Score of 77/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.