46
BU Score
Emerging
LimeChat - IRC Client
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LimeChat - IRC Client is an iOS app from Satoshi Nakagawa in the Social Networking category, currently rated 3.1★ across 11 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 46: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Social Networking app, that means early traction worth watching.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (11 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v2.31🔄 updated 5y ago🌐 EN, JA📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2008 (17y old)
📝 About this app
LimeChat for iOS is a full featured IRC client. It allows you to chat on the go in the same way as you do on desktop.
Features:
・Quick navigation. You can move around channels quickly by arrow buttons or tapping on the left/right side of log views.
・Arrow buttons indicate events (highlight, new message coming or new PM coming) happened in the other channels. So you can recognize it easily while chatting in another channel.
・Highlights messages and optionally vibrates for your specific words.
・Visual interface for user information (whois).
・Built-in browser for clickable URL links.… View full description on the official store →
Features:
・Quick navigation. You can move around channels quickly by arrow buttons or tapping on the left/right side of log views.
・Arrow buttons indicate events (highlight, new message coming or new PM coming) happened in the other channels. So you can recognize it easily while chatting in another channel.
・Highlights messages and optionally vibrates for your specific words.
・Visual interface for user information (whois).
・Built-in browser for clickable URL links.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.31
• Fix issues in channel list
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- LimeChat - IRC Client
- Developer
- Satoshi Nakagawa
- Bundle ID
- net.limechat.LimeChat
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA
Company
- Website
- limechat.net
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $24.6K/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
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
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- Phone
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- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.2★ · 32.7% 5★ · 24.5% 1★
5★16 (33%)
4★7 (14%)
3★9 (18%)
2★5 (10%)
1★12 (24%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×15 love ×9 best ×4 awesome ×2 amazing ×2Complaints: refund ×1 terrible ×1 expensive ×1 crash ×1 overpriced ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Good app, but it missing something
This is a nice app, but it need colors in the text, the channel I use the mods has color text so people can see whet they said…
★★★★★ What happened to it?
I had already bought this once to replace another irc app when the first one disappeared. Now that the first one has come back this one is gone and now I can't download it unless I pay for it again? What's up with that?…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Can’t use DCC feature in IRC
This client doesn’t support downloading of files. Requesting a refund.…
★☆☆☆☆ Junk
App doesn’t work. What a waste of $5. I found a free app that actually works. If I could have rated Zero stars, I would have.…
📈Ratings growth11 ratings+-78% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for LimeChat - IRC Client: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.