Skout — Meet New People
75
Quality Score
Strong
Skout — Meet New People
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Skout — Meet New People is an iOS app from Skout, Inc. in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.4★ across 189,208 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking app, that means healthy traction. 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
$3.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.7M – $5.7M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.4M – $8.2M
per month
BIG tier
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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 ~1.9y 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 (334 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
17.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.2M
Daily active
2.3M
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
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.5M – $4.7M
12 months
$3.7M – $5.7M
24 months
$4.4M – $8.2M
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
Concerning · 53/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksRevenue Strength
6.5
Product Quality
8.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.4M - $7.7M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.37★ across 189,208 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $63.0M-$112.0M.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (189,208 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v227.1
A small update for us – a big adventure for you!
We've fixed a few bugs so that you can continue to connect with new people with peace of mind.
We've fixed a few bugs so that you can continue to connect with new people with peace of mind.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Skout — Meet New People
- Developer
- Skout, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.skout.SKOUT
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Welcome to Skout
- Description
- Connect with people nearby or worldwide on Skout. Join now and chat, make friends, or meet authentic matches.
- 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
- $6.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#38 /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
- facebook facebook.com/skout · instagram instagram.com/skoutapp
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- skout.com/en/aboutus
📈Ratings growth189,208 ratings+18% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (48 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇦🇺
AU
Top-grossing rank: #38 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#38 now · best #36 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Instantly meet people near you or around the world! See who is broadcasting in Live broadcast yourself and feel the love! Discover new friends nearby or around the globe. Millions of people are connecting and meeting through Skout every day. Use exciting in-app features to increase your chances of finding friends or chatting!
Start Skouting and make new friends, or meet new people, anytime, anywhere.… View full description on the official store →
Start Skouting and make new friends, or meet new people, anytime, anywhere.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 334 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v227.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +3📂 Social Networking💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 — v225.1 → v227.1
→ 30 days after: reviews −11 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews −11 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.91 → 4.20 (improved 2.29★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.8K/mo · rating +2.29★ · reviews +188,628 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.8K/mo · rating +2.29★ · reviews +188,628 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.8K/mo · rating +2.29★ · reviews +188,629 medium · co-occurring
2024-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +21 high confidence
2024-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.24★ · reviews +25 high confidence
2024-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.54★ · reviews +34 low · multiple changes
2024-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.67 → 2.50 (improved 0.83★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.45★ · reviews +28 low · multiple changes
2024-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.44★ · reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
2024-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.44★ · reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #32Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
dating·#32🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.37152★ | 189,192 | 4.37152★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.20904★ | 9,673 | 4.20904★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.27189★ | 1,747 | 4.27189★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.29976★ | 2,502 | 4.29976★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.23752★ | 9,772 | 4.23752★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.15747★ | 5,601 | 4.15747★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.22201★ | 14,968 | 4.22201★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.38603★ | 4,067 | 4.38603★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.33774★ | 10,893 | 4.33774★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Skout — Meet New People: 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: 189,208 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Skout — Meet New People make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Skout — Meet New People earns approximately $6.8K/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 Skout — Meet New People?▴
Skout — Meet New People is published by Skout, 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 Skout — Meet New People's BU Score?▴
Skout — Meet New People has a BU Score of 75/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.