78
BU Score
Strong
Backbone — Next-Level Play
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Backbone — Next-Level Play is an iOS app from Backbone Labs, Inc in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.8★ across 98,280 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (98,280 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 |
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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 376 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.9.26🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +5📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (5y old)
📝 About this app
Backbone turns your iPhone and iPad Mini into the ultimate gaming device.
■ Play any game or service that supports game controllers.
The Backbone One controller works with services like PS Remote Play, Xbox Game Pass (xCloud), Apple Arcade, Xbox Remote Play, Google Stadia, and Amazon Luna.
It also works with games like Call of Duty: Mobile, Minecraft and Genshin Impact.
Press the Backbone Button to bring up the app and launch into your favorite games that support controllers from one place.
■ Record, edit, and share epic gaming clips
Backbone One has a built-in Capture button that allows you to easily screen record or screenshot gameplay and share directly to social platforms like Instagram Stories and iMessage, all directly from your mobile device.
■ Never miss a moment
Hold the Capture Button to bookmark a moment when recording. Forgot to bookmark? Once a video is captured, Backbone’s app helps you identify your most action-packed moments automatically, allowing you to show off your best moments and highlights with ease.
■ Party with your friends
With Backbone’s Rich Presence feature, you can get push notifications when your friends start playing games on Backbone, making it easy to join the action in real-time. Once you see a friend online, you can link up for voice chat inside the app and move from game to game, seamlessly.
To learn more, download the app or visit https://backbone.com/
A Backbone+ subscription is required for some features within the app.
Any feedback? Use the in-app feedback tool, ping us at support@playbackbone.com or tweet us @backbone
Terms of Use: https://backbone.com/terms/
■ Play any game or service that supports game controllers.
The Backbone One controller works with services like PS Remote Play, Xbox Game Pass (xCloud), Apple Arcade, Xbox Remote Play, Google Stadia, and Amazon Luna.
It also works with games like Call of Duty: Mobile, Minecraft and Genshin Impact.
Press the Backbone Button to bring up the app and launch into your favorite games that support controllers from one place.
■ Record, edit, and share epic gaming clips
Backbone One has a built-in Capture button that allows you to easily screen record or screenshot gameplay and share directly to social platforms like Instagram Stories and iMessage, all directly from your mobile device.
■ Never miss a moment
Hold the Capture Button to bookmark a moment when recording. Forgot to bookmark? Once a video is captured, Backbone’s app helps you identify your most action-packed moments automatically, allowing you to show off your best moments and highlights with ease.
■ Party with your friends
With Backbone’s Rich Presence feature, you can get push notifications when your friends start playing games on Backbone, making it easy to join the action in real-time. Once you see a friend online, you can link up for voice chat inside the app and move from game to game, seamlessly.
To learn more, download the app or visit https://backbone.com/
A Backbone+ subscription is required for some features within the app.
Any feedback? Use the in-app feedback tool, ping us at support@playbackbone.com or tweet us @backbone
Terms of Use: https://backbone.com/terms/
🆕 What's New · v1.9.26
Bug fixes, enhancements, and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Backbone — Next-Level Play
- Developer
- Backbone Labs, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.backbonelabs.backboneapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
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- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
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- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $300.0KAI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $3.6M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#42 /100 🇺🇸#60 /100 🇫🇷#98 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
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- X / Twitter
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- GitHub
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- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
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- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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- AngelList
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Press & Links
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Backbone — Next-Level Play" is estimated to generate approximately $300,000 in monthly revenue, leading to an annual estimate of $3.6 million. This revenue primarily comes from its Backbone+ subscription service, which unlocks premium app features.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Apple App Store, Reddit
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.57★ · 28.6% 5★ · 51.0% 1★
5★14 (29%)
4★3 (6%)
3★5 (10%)
2★2 (4%)
1★25 (51%)
+9 ratings/week
Praise: great ×9 love ×3 amazing ×3 favorite ×2 recommend ×2Complaints: subscription ×8 bug ×4 scam ×1 terrible ×1 refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Good app for its device
It’s a very good app for the device and it has games that you click on and you go to that app and you play the game…
★★★★★ Fire
Works great…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Complete scam
I bought my Backbone for the PS a few years ago and at first it was pretty dang cool but now I can’t play any PS4 games unless my PS4 is turned on. I can’t play it away from the house because I lose internet connection and which is dumb and…
★☆☆☆☆ says a game which i play with controller lacks controller support
the app wants me to leave a review on the game so that it gets controller support but the game already has controller support, also i cannot remap the buttons so the confirm button is on the right side like the nintendo orientation i am use…
📈Ratings growth98,280 ratings+76% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (37 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇬🇧GB#42 /100
🇺🇸US#60 /100
🇫🇷FR#98 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#42 now · best #41 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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.
