27
BU Score
Niche
Pay Tel
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Pay Tel is an iOS app from Pay Tel Communications in the Social Networking category, currently rated 1.6★ across 116 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 27 — Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Social Networking app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (1.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (116 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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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Sep 25
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Jan 26
Mar 26
⭐ 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 →💾 34 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.5.0🔄 updated 5mo ago📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📝 About this app
The Pay Tel app provides you with easy access to important functionality:
Instant alerts for any notifications from Pay Tel™ or your inteleMESSAGE™ contacts.
Current unread messages count indicator. Just press to open inteleMESSAGE™.
Visibility to your current balance, and a link to the main PayTel.com site for Adding Funds.
Send photos to inmates in eligible facilities.
Instant alerts for any notifications from Pay Tel™ or your inteleMESSAGE™ contacts.
Current unread messages count indicator. Just press to open inteleMESSAGE™.
Visibility to your current balance, and a link to the main PayTel.com site for Adding Funds.
Send photos to inmates in eligible facilities.
🆕 What's New · v2.5.0
- Support for new inteleMessage
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pay Tel
- Developer
- Pay Tel Communications
- Bundle ID
- com.paytel.friendsfamily
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- Not found
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
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $201/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/letterloop-group-newsletters/id6468623700
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1583092806
📈Ratings growth116 ratings+142% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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.
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