71
BU Score
Strong
Kik Messaging & Chat App
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Kik Messaging & Chat App is an iOS app from Medialab - Kik in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.3★ across 483,751 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking app, that means healthy traction.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (483,751 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 |
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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 260 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v17.12.1🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, IT +8📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)
📝 About this app
Get connected.
Kik is way more than just messaging. It’s the easiest way to connect with your friends, stay in the loop, and explore – all through chat. No phone numbers, just pick a username.
• Choose who to chat with one-on-one and in groups
• Share pics, videos, gifs, games, and more
• Meet new friends with similar interests
Get on Kik now. Start chatting!
You can read our End User License Agreement here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Kik is way more than just messaging. It’s the easiest way to connect with your friends, stay in the loop, and explore – all through chat. No phone numbers, just pick a username.
• Choose who to chat with one-on-one and in groups
• Share pics, videos, gifs, games, and more
• Meet new friends with similar interests
Get on Kik now. Start chatting!
You can read our End User License Agreement here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
🆕 What's New · v17.12.1
Improvements & Bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Kik Messaging & Chat App
- Developer
- Medialab - Kik
- Bundle ID
- com.kik.chat
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH
Company
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $200.0K ($160.0K – $240.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $2.4M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $49.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#28 /100 🇬🇧#36 /100 🇺🇸#51 /100 🇦🇺#63 /100 🇩🇪#98 /100
- 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
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Kik Messaging & Chat App" is estimated to generate approximately $200,000 in monthly revenue, based on recent Sensor Tower data for April 2026. Annual revenue is estimated at $2.4 million. Revenue is primarily driven by in-app purchases and advertising.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Vizologi, Pixalate, Search Logistics, Reddit, SEC
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.69★ · 12.2% 5★ · 73.5% 1★
5★6 (12%)
4★0 (0%)
3★3 (6%)
2★4 (8%)
1★36 (73%)
+90 ratings/week
Praise: love ×1 perfect ×1 recommend ×1Complaints: crash ×5 scam ×4 bug ×3 terrible ×2 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Good
That’s good…
★★★★★ The app isn't working on My phone
The money I click the login option it leaves the app automatically…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Support
Got banned off of live for absolutely no reason wasn’t showing my face wasn’t saying anything inappropriate was just simply chatting with friends and got permanently banned when ive seen other do unspeakable things i tried to contact suppor…
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn't work
The app freezes…
📈Ratings growth483,751 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (36 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank5 countries
🇨🇦CA#28 /100
🇬🇧GB#36 /100
🇺🇸US#51 /100
🇦🇺AU#63 /100
🇩🇪DE#98 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#28 now · best #26 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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 Kik Messaging & Chat App: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.