HBO Max: Stream Movies & TV
82
Quality Score
Excellent
HBO Max: Stream Movies & TV
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This app targets the premium on-demand video streaming market, directly competing with established players like Netflix, Disney+, and Prime Video. Its robust rating from over five million users signals strong user satisfaction and significant market penetration. However, the estimated monthly revenue of approximately $315 for a free app, despite its massive user base and a recent update, indicates a primary strategy of user acquisition over immediate direct monetization through in-app purchases or subscriptions. This suggests the app is currently in a growth phase focused on expanding its audience and content library, likely leveraging existing brand recognition. A common monetization observation in this category is the prevalence of subscription tiers, where a free app often serves as a gateway to premium, ad-free, or exclusive content subscriptions, which HBO Max appears to be underutilizing for direct in-app revenue generation.
BU Score 82 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG tier
💡 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
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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
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (237 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
👥 Estimated audience size
1069.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
213.5M
Daily active
42.5M
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 49/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.7
Market Position
1.8
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.8
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 5,345,355 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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:
| High install base (5,345,355 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Multilingual (35 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (3y 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 · v7.5.0
We’re back with bug fixes, performance improvements, and more. Update your app today to get the most out of your experience, just in time for the HBO Original House of the Dragon season 3.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- HBO Max: Stream Movies & TV
- Developer
- WarnerMedia Global Digital Services, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.wbd.stream
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- BG, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, LV, LT, MK, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- books.apple.com
- Tagline
- Apple Books
- Description
- Apple Books makes listening to audiobooks, reading ebooks, and discovering your next favorite a seamless experience across your devices.
- 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
- $316/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#3 /100 🇺🇸#4 /100 🇦🇺#5 /100 🇫🇷#8 /100 🇬🇧#9 /100 🇩🇪#13 /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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- 1-800-692-7753
- Contact page
- books.apple.com/us/shop/goto/help
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth5,345,355 ratings+730% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇧🇷BR#3 /100
🇺🇸US#4 /100
🇦🇺AU#5 /100
🇫🇷FR#8 /100
🇬🇧GB#9 /100
🇩🇪DE#13 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#3 now · best #3 · worst #3
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
The most talked about shows and movies featuring the worlds of HBO, the DC Universe, Adult Swim, A24, and beyond.
With HBO Max you'll get:
• Access to thousands of TV shows and movies.
• Exclusive, award-winning series that everyone's talking about — like the HBO Originals The Last of Us, Succession, The White Lotus, and House of the Dragon.
• The latest hits from HBO, Harry Potter, DC, Warner Bros., ID, Adult Swim, A24, and more.
• Stream select live sports from your favorite leagues and teams. Availability varies by plan and by subscription provider.… View full description on the official store →
With HBO Max you'll get:
• Access to thousands of TV shows and movies.
• Exclusive, award-winning series that everyone's talking about — like the HBO Originals The Last of Us, Succession, The White Lotus, and House of the Dragon.
• The latest hits from HBO, Harry Potter, DC, Warner Bros., ID, Adult Swim, A24, and more.
• Stream select live sports from your favorite leagues and teams. Availability varies by plan and by subscription provider.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 237 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.4+🔖 v7.5.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 BG, HR, CS, DA, NL +30📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 — v7.4.0 → v7.5.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +61,682 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.3.0 → v7.4.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +143,380 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v7.2.0 → v7.3.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +160,360 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v7.2.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +414,929 high confidence
2026-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +314,477 high confidence
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Tech & Domain Intel — hbomax.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.86903★ | 5,358,851 | 4.86903★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.81339★ | 30,632 | 4.81339★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.76485★ | 19,835 | 4.76485★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.77909★ | 56,903 | 4.77909★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.80403★ | 70,028 | 4.80403★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.90958★ | 818,810 | 4.90958★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for HBO Max: Stream Movies & TV: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 5,345,355 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does HBO Max make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, HBO Max earns approximately $315/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.
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Who makes HBO Max?▴
HBO Max is published by WarnerMedia Global Digital Services, LLC 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 HBO Max's BU Score?▴
HBO Max has a BU Score of 82/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.