Social Chat: Make New Friends
56
Quality Score
Solid
Social Chat: Make New Friends
by Stivisto Inc.
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Social Chat: Make New Friends is an iOS app from Stivisto Inc. in the Social Networking category, currently rated 3.8★ across 4,629 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 56: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
💡 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
215 snapshots on record
Rating
3.8
Reviews
4,629 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
215
since Jun 2020
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.4y 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 (82 MB) | +$12K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$44K |
| ⚙ 6.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$38K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 6.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
290K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
53K
Daily active
29K
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 |
| 📅 6.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 82 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-07-17 · 74 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
| 📅 74 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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)
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 · 34/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
5.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.77★ across 4,629 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.47 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 9 of 9 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 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (4,629 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v5.40.1
Added minor fixes, stability improvements, and overall performance enhancements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Social Chat: Make New Friends
- Developer
- Stivisto Inc.
- Bundle ID
- anonchat
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, RU
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
- 🇮🇳#51 /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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.0★ · 12.2% 5★ · 61.2% 1★
5★6 (12%)
4★3 (6%)
3★6 (12%)
2★4 (8%)
1★30 (61%)
+10 ratings/week
Praise: love ×4 favorite ×1 best ×1 amazing ×1Complaints: terrible ×3 scam ×2 subscription ×1 broken ×1 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Love the app
This app is exploding with such fun conversations. It’s hard to keep my shirt clean.…
★★★★★ Love App
Best way of meeting new people. Keep it up.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ All men
If you don’t pay for service all you get is guys. Not a favorite. If you do pay there is almost no one there in the female filters. Kind of a waste of time…
★☆☆☆☆ What’s happening??
Why is there no connection “on the app it was fine I was talking with friends now it’s not loading anything,I’ve Redownloaded it and reset my phone nothings helping all my other apps work but it’s saying in SoChat I have no connection “plea…
📈Ratings growth4,834 ratings+1322% 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 Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇮🇳
IN
Top-grossing rank: #51 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#51 now · best #51 · worst #52
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
SoChat is a Social Chat! We offer an exciting way to meet new people from all over the world. Practice new languages, like the people you’re into, and find new friends in just a few taps.
What you’ll find in SoChat:
— People worldwide — new connections every day
— 1-on-1 chats and engaging conversations
— Likes and mutual interest — chat with people you truly like
— Language practice through real conversations
— Quick start and a simple, clean interface
Looking for friendship, light conversations, or just a bit of adventure? SoChat helps you find your people anywhere.
What you’ll find in SoChat:
— People worldwide — new connections every day
— 1-on-1 chats and engaging conversations
— Likes and mutual interest — chat with people you truly like
— Language practice through real conversations
— Quick start and a simple, clean interface
Looking for friendship, light conversations, or just a bit of adventure? SoChat helps you find your people anywhere.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 82 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.40.1🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN, RU📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
17 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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.40.0 → v5.40.1
→ 30 days after: revenue −$9.6K/mo · reviews +55 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.39.0 → v5.40.0
→ 30 days after: revenue −$9.6K/mo · reviews +55 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +48 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.62 → 3.77 (improved 1.15★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +48 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$370/mo · reviews +15 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.61 → 3.50 (improved 0.89★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$370/mo · reviews +15 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$132/mo · reviews +5 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$154/mo · reviews +6 high confidence
2023-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$59/mo high confidence
2023-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$122/mo · rating +0.05★ high confidence
2022-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.57 → 3.22 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$71/mo · rating −0.22★ high confidence
2021-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$93/mo · rating +0.17★ high confidence
2021-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$55/mo · rating −0.25★ high confidence
2021-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.42★ high confidence
2021-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2020-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #1Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
anonymous chat·#1🇺🇸voice chat·#24🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 484 reviews across 8 markets● 42% positive · ● 20% neutral · ● 38% negative · Rating drift: -1.47★ (declining — recent 50: 2.3★ vs lifetime: 3.77★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.10
🇦🇺 AU
+0.08
🇧🇷 BR
+0.07
🇺🇸 US
+0.06
🇬🇧 GB
+0.03
🇩🇪 DE
-0.15
🇫🇷 FR
-0.26
🇯🇵 JP
-0.46
Top praise themes
being able ×4 able send ×3 send videos ×3 noice noice ×3 fun ×19 only ×13 find ×10 meet ×9
Top complaint themes
banned reason ×5 horny men ×5 put bio ×4 single person ×4 men don ×3 right now ×3 don waste ×3 don download ×3
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 3% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.1%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.5★ | 164 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.01881★ | 319 | 4.01881★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.28085★ | 235 | 3.28085★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.50165★ | 303 | 3.50165★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.52273★ | 88 | 3.52273★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.42986★ | 556 | 3.42986★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.375★ | 624 | 3.375★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.04★ | 25 | 3.04★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.71204★ | 4,841 | 3.71204★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Social Chat: Make New Friends: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 4,629 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Social Chat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Social 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 Social Chat profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Social Chat looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Social Chat have?▴
Estimated audience: ~290K lifetime downloads, ~53K monthly active users, and ~29K 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 Social Chat?▴
Browse the full Social Networking 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 Social Chat built with?▴
Our heuristic places Social Chat on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Social Chat still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Social Chat sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 17× 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 Social Chat last updated?▴
Social Chat last shipped a new version on 2026-07-17 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Social Chat?▴
Social Chat is published by Stivisto Inc. 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 Social Chat's BU Score?▴
Social Chat has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.