Element X - Secure Chat & Call
55
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Element X - Secure Chat & Call is an iOS app from Vector Creations Limited in the Social Networking category, currently rated 3.4★ across 133 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 55: 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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📊 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
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.2y 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 (306 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
11K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.8K
Daily active
1.5K
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 |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
54% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
4.8
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.41★ across 133 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($14K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (38 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (133 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v26.07.4
Version 26.07.4 is now available with a handful of small changes including:
• Calls will always be shown using dark mode.
• A fix for a bug that prevented you from opening chats under certain offline conditions.
As always, the full release notes can be found at https://github.… Full release notes →
• Calls will always be shown using dark mode.
• A fix for a bug that prevented you from opening chats under certain offline conditions.
As always, the full release notes can be found at https://github.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Element X - Secure Chat & Call
- Developer
- Vector Creations Limited
- Bundle ID
- io.element.elementx
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EU, BE, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, KA, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LT, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK, UR, UZ, VI, CY
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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $11.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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.
📈Ratings growth146 ratings+14500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (51 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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.
🚀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
Freedom to communicate on your own terms
For individuals and communities - private communication between family, friends, hobby groups, clubs, etc.
Element X gives you fast, secure and private instant messaging and video calls built on Matrix, the open standard for real-time communication. This is a free and open-source app maintained at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios
Stay in touch with friends, family and communities with:
• Real time messaging & video calls
• Public rooms for open group communication
• Private rooms for closed group communication… View full description on the official store →
For individuals and communities - private communication between family, friends, hobby groups, clubs, etc.
Element X gives you fast, secure and private instant messaging and video calls built on Matrix, the open standard for real-time communication. This is a free and open-source app maintained at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios
Stay in touch with friends, family and communities with:
• Real time messaging & video calls
• Public rooms for open group communication
• Private rooms for closed group communication… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 306 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 18.5+🔖 v26.07.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EU, BE, BG, CA, HR +33📂 Social Networking💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.05.0 → v26.06.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.75 → 3.41 (improved 0.66★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.60 → 2.70 (dropped 0.90★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$993/mo · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$993/mo · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.73 → 3.60 (improved 0.87★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$993/mo · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2026-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.0K/mo · reviews +10 high confidence
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.29 (dropped 0.38★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$199/mo high confidence
2024-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$441/mo low · multiple changes
2023-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.14 → 3.78 (dropped 0.36★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$441/mo high confidence
2023-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$242/mo · rating +0.20★ high confidence
2023-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$242/mo high confidence
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.84615★ | 13 | 3.84615★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.625★ | 16 | 3.625★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.74603★ | 126 | 3.74603★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.04545★ | 22 | 4.04545★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.48387★ | 31 | 3.48387★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.59999★ | 5 | 4.59999★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.33333★ | 6 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.41781★ | 146 | 3.41781★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Element X - Secure Chat & Call: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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Lead-app heavy — top app contributes 77%
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 133 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Element X - Secure Chat & Call make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Element X - Secure Chat & Call earns approximately $11K/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.
What apps are like Element X - Secure Chat & Call?▴
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Who makes Element X - Secure Chat & Call?▴
Element X - Secure Chat & Call is published by Vector Creations Limited 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 Element X - Secure Chat & Call's BU Score?▴
Element X - Secure Chat & Call has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.