PayPal - Pay, Send, Save
92
Quality Score
Transcendent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This Finance app, "PayPal: Geld senden, verwalten," squarely targets the digital payments and money transfer market, competing directly with established players like Venmo, Cash App, and traditional banking apps. Its substantial user base, evidenced by millions of ratings, signals deep market penetration and robust traction, placing it firmly in a mature growth stage, rather than early-stage discovery. Despite being a free app, its estimated monthly revenue of nearly $20,000, likely generated through transaction fees or integrated financial products, indicates significant user engagement and value exchange. For the Finance category, a common monetization observation is the prevalence of transaction-based fees or premium subscription tiers for advanced features, rather than direct app purchases or in-app advertising, reflecting the high-trust, utility-driven nature of these services.
BU Score 92 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
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
578 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
6,298,704 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
578
since Nov 2025
🤖Also on Android
$45/mo · 3.7M ratings · 4.2★
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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 under a month 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 (771 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 7.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$45K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $11.0M – $19.5M · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~97× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅 7.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
529.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
52.0M
Daily active
23.0M
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 7.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | 771 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-28 · 2 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
| 📅 2 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.78★ across 6,298,704 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (6,298,704 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (36 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (7y 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 · v10.5.1
Get the latest update. The new PayPal app that you know and love, now made simpler, faster and easier to use. Continue to shop, pay, earn rewards, and manage your money. All in one place.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PayPal - Pay, Send, Save
- Developer
- PayPal, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.yourcompany.PPClient
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- SQ, AR, BN, BG, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LV, LT, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SI, SK, SL, ES, SV, TH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- www.paypal.com
- Tagline
- Bezahl, wie es dir passt
- Description
- Verwende dein PayPal-Konto zum Bezahlen, Geld senden und verwalten. Erstelle ein Händlerkonto für dein Unternehmen. Nutze mobiles Bezahlen und Ratenkauf.
- 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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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
- 28.09.202026
- Contact page
- paypal.com/de/smarthelp/home
- About page
- paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/about
📈Ratings growth6,298,568 ratingsShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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
PayPal is a smart way to securely shop in-store and online, earn rewards points on brands you love, send money and much more.
SHOP WITH PURCHASE PROTECTION
Get built-in protection before and after you buy, with support when something doesn't go as planned.
*PayPal Purchase Protection is available on eligible transactions.
See terms and limitations: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/buyer-protection
EARN POINTS ON EVERYDAY PURCHASES WITH THE PAYPAL DEBIT CARD
Choose a monthly category and earn 5% back in rewards points on up to $1000 spend/month. Terms apply: http://paypal.… View full description on the official store →
SHOP WITH PURCHASE PROTECTION
Get built-in protection before and after you buy, with support when something doesn't go as planned.
*PayPal Purchase Protection is available on eligible transactions.
See terms and limitations: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/buyer-protection
EARN POINTS ON EVERYDAY PURCHASES WITH THE PAYPAL DEBIT CARD
Choose a monthly category and earn 5% back in rewards points on up to $1000 spend/month. Terms apply: http://paypal.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 771 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.4+🔖 v10.5.1🔄 updated 2d ago🌐 SQ, AR, BN, BG, CS +31📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 →
2026-09
📦
Bundle ↑ 525MB → 898MB — likely major code refresh
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v8.107.2 → v10.0.1
→ 30 days after: reviews −71 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.107.1 → v8.107.2
→ 30 days after: reviews −472 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v8.107.0 → v8.107.1
→ 30 days after: reviews −395 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v8.106.0 → v8.107.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −671 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v8.106.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −752 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews −184 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.64 → 4.80 (improved 3.16★)
→ 30 days after: reviews −184 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.5K/mo · rating +3.18★ · reviews +6,299,451 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ · reviews +202 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.70★ · reviews +212 low · multiple changes
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.70★ · reviews +174 low · multiple changes
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.43 → 1.88 (improved 0.45★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.70★ · reviews +174 low · multiple changes
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.68★ · reviews +170 low · multiple changes
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.68★ · reviews +170 low · multiple changes
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-05
2026-09-04
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.71087★ | 189,996 | 4.71087★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.5734★ | 57,558 | 4.5734★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.60729★ | 158,696 | 4.60729★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.81453★ | 1,809,992 | 4.81453★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.78343★ | 482,652 | 4.78343★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.79793★ | 1,077,689 | 4.79793★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.4098★ | 16,408 | 4.4098★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.36879★ | 41,593 | 4.36879★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78151★ | 6,298,678 | 4.78151★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PayPal - Pay, Send, Save: 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 67%
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 6,298,704 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PayPal - Pay, Send, Save make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PayPal - Pay, Send, Save earns approximately $700K/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 PayPal - Pay, Send, Save profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $700K, PayPal - Pay, Send, Save looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does PayPal - Pay, Send, Save have?▴
Estimated audience: ~529.0M lifetime downloads, ~52.0M monthly active users, and ~23.0M 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 PayPal - Pay, Send, Save?▴
Browse the full News 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 PayPal - Pay, Send, Save built with?▴
Our heuristic places PayPal - Pay, Send, Save on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is PayPal - Pay, Send, Save still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would PayPal - Pay, Send, Save sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $15.0M (marketplace range $11.0M – $19.5M). Calculated as 21× 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 PayPal - Pay, Send, Save last updated?▴
PayPal - Pay, Send, Save last shipped a new version on 2026-09-28 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes PayPal - Pay, Send, Save?▴
PayPal - Pay, Send, Save is published by PayPal, 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 PayPal - Pay, Send, Save's BU Score?▴
PayPal - Pay, Send, Save has a BU Score of 92/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.