59
BU Score
Solid
NextDNS
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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NextDNS is an iOS app from nextdns Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.4★ across 1,123 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 59 — Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities app, that means established niche player.
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 10 of 10 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 (1,123 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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.
💚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 →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v3.2.0🔄 updated 1d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +9📂 Utilities💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (6y old)
📝 About this app
NextDNS protects your device from ads, trackers, malware, and other harmful domains while keeping your internet activity private.
All DNS traffic is encrypted, preventing networks and internet providers from seeing or manipulating your DNS queries.
Protection across your device
NextDNS works system-wide across apps and browsers.
• Block ads and trackers automatically
• Protect against malware, phishing, and malicious domains
• Enable parental controls and content filtering
• View analytics, query logs, graphs, and domain details in a native dashboard
Easy setup
Create your NextDNS profile in seconds or connect an existing one.
Your configuration is managed at my.nextdns.io, where you control blocking rules, security settings, and privacy features.
Control on iPhone and iPad
The app lets you manage protection on your device:
• Enable or disable NextDNS anytime
• Temporarily pause protection and resume from a live activity
• Optionally send your device name for easier identification in logs
• Quickly unblock domains from the app
• Exclude trusted Wi-Fi networks
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://nextdns.io/privacy
All DNS traffic is encrypted, preventing networks and internet providers from seeing or manipulating your DNS queries.
Protection across your device
NextDNS works system-wide across apps and browsers.
• Block ads and trackers automatically
• Protect against malware, phishing, and malicious domains
• Enable parental controls and content filtering
• View analytics, query logs, graphs, and domain details in a native dashboard
Easy setup
Create your NextDNS profile in seconds or connect an existing one.
Your configuration is managed at my.nextdns.io, where you control blocking rules, security settings, and privacy features.
Control on iPhone and iPad
The app lets you manage protection on your device:
• Enable or disable NextDNS anytime
• Temporarily pause protection and resume from a live activity
• Optionally send your device name for easier identification in logs
• Quickly unblock domains from the app
• Exclude trusted Wi-Fi networks
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://nextdns.io/privacy
🆕 What's New · v3.2.0
This update includes bug fixes and improvements to keep NextDNS running smoothly.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- NextDNS
- Developer
- nextdns Inc.
- Bundle ID
- io.nextdns.NextDNS
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- NextDNS
- Description
- NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $255/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#77 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/NextDNS
- Not found
- GitHub
- https://github.com/nextdns
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
📈Ratings growth1,123 ratings+47% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
📊Category Rank Trajectory#77 now · best #72 · 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.
