69
BU Score
Solid
Upward: Dating for Christians
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Upward: Dating for Christians is an iOS app from Affinity Apps, LLC in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.3★ across 156,412 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking 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:
| High install base (156,412 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (6y 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 →💾 227 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v12.7.1🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, ES📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📝 About this app
UPWARD
Upward. The #1 dating app for Christian singles in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021
Connect, chat, and meet with Christian singles searching for meaningful relationships built on faith and shared values.
Upward is the app for Christian singles. A fun, fresh, free, and simple-to-use app where Believers meet.
Our mission is simple: To create a faith-based community for single Christian men and women to connect based on shared beliefs, shared values, and similar likes and interests.
We believe that values matter when building lasting relationships, and Upward is designed for people who prioritize family values, faith, and meaningful connections.
The Christian community is full of diverse identities, denominations and levels of faith; Upward is created with all of that in mind: Whether you are Non-Denominational, Baptist, Catholic, Pentecostal or anything and everything in between, we are here and created for you and for the values that guide your life, relationships, and future.
How Upward works:
• Set up your profile in a few easy steps and remember: It’s important to showcase your best self!
• Fill out your faith statement so everyone knows what your faith means to you.
• Just like other apps, swipe right to like someone and swipe left to pass…
• Make a mutual connection and chat with other Christian singles near you for FREE!
So what’s next:
• Download Upward today to find someone that shares the same beliefs as you.
• Upward is here for you to find a lifetime partner, values-based matches, long-term relationship and even new friends.
Go Premium and you can also:
• Send 5 Super Likes per week to stand out from the crowd and let people know that you're really interested
• Rewind on people to give them a second chance
• Boost your profile each month to be one of the top profiles in your area for 30 minutes
• Send unlimited amount of likes to people who share your faith and values
• Have an uninterrupted experience with no ads!
Become Elite and you can:
• Get all of the Premium benefits PLUS
• Remove the mystery and See Who's Liked You for instant matches!
Check us out every day! We're growing fast and there's someone new to match with every day making it easier to find value-based relationships rooted in faith!
Here we grow! Share Upward with your fellow Christian friends and family.
Privacy Policy: https://www.upward-app.com/en/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://www.upward-app.com/en/terms-of-use
All photos are of models and used for illustrative purposes only.
Upward. The #1 dating app for Christian singles in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021
Connect, chat, and meet with Christian singles searching for meaningful relationships built on faith and shared values.
Upward is the app for Christian singles. A fun, fresh, free, and simple-to-use app where Believers meet.
Our mission is simple: To create a faith-based community for single Christian men and women to connect based on shared beliefs, shared values, and similar likes and interests.
We believe that values matter when building lasting relationships, and Upward is designed for people who prioritize family values, faith, and meaningful connections.
The Christian community is full of diverse identities, denominations and levels of faith; Upward is created with all of that in mind: Whether you are Non-Denominational, Baptist, Catholic, Pentecostal or anything and everything in between, we are here and created for you and for the values that guide your life, relationships, and future.
How Upward works:
• Set up your profile in a few easy steps and remember: It’s important to showcase your best self!
• Fill out your faith statement so everyone knows what your faith means to you.
• Just like other apps, swipe right to like someone and swipe left to pass…
• Make a mutual connection and chat with other Christian singles near you for FREE!
So what’s next:
• Download Upward today to find someone that shares the same beliefs as you.
• Upward is here for you to find a lifetime partner, values-based matches, long-term relationship and even new friends.
Go Premium and you can also:
• Send 5 Super Likes per week to stand out from the crowd and let people know that you're really interested
• Rewind on people to give them a second chance
• Boost your profile each month to be one of the top profiles in your area for 30 minutes
• Send unlimited amount of likes to people who share your faith and values
• Have an uninterrupted experience with no ads!
Become Elite and you can:
• Get all of the Premium benefits PLUS
• Remove the mystery and See Who's Liked You for instant matches!
Check us out every day! We're growing fast and there's someone new to match with every day making it easier to find value-based relationships rooted in faith!
Here we grow! Share Upward with your fellow Christian friends and family.
Privacy Policy: https://www.upward-app.com/en/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://www.upward-app.com/en/terms-of-use
All photos are of models and used for illustrative purposes only.
🆕 What's New · v12.7.1
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Upward: Dating for Christians
- Developer
- Affinity Apps, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.affinityapps.twozerofour
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, ES
Company
- Website
- www.upward-app.com
- Tagline
- Where Faith and Values Meet
- Description
- Upward is a new, FREE app focused on creating a community for Christian men and Christian women to connect based on similar likes and interests.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $400.0K ($360.0K – $440.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $4.8M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $36.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#35 /100 🇨🇦#46 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- 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
- Socials
- Not found
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- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Upward: Dating for Christians" is estimated to generate approximately $400,000 in monthly revenue, based on recent data. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of $4.8 million.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Apple App Store, Reddit
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.71★ · 8.2% 5★ · 69.4% 1★
5★4 (8%)
4★3 (6%)
3★2 (4%)
2★6 (12%)
1★34 (69%)
+362 ratings/week
Praise: great ×4 recommend ×2 love ×1 amazing ×1 awesome ×1Complaints: expensive ×4 subscription ×4 scam ×3 worst ×2 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Met my husband!
This app is amazing! After only two weeks on this app I met my now soon to be husband. I love how the profiles are set up and really push you to be honest about what you want in the future. It made it so much easier to get the hard conversa…
★★★★★ All red with a guitar in your hand
I wonder where you’re ready to go I bet not some typical bar but higher up a cliff or mountain lead in your voice do the work…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Ms Boss
Thus site sucks. You don’t get anyone that lives close…
★☆☆☆☆ Waste of time
Just a scam for money. You rarely ever see people near your area even when there are more near you. It shows people hundreds of miles away. Also you could be swiping for days and never see a profile that already likes you. You can really on…
📈Ratings growth156,412 ratings+48% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (25 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
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇺🇸US#35 /100
🇨🇦CA#46 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#35 now · best #32 · 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Upward: Dating for Christians: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.