64
BU Score
Solid
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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WeChat is an iOS app from WeChat in the Social Networking category, currently rated 3.9★ across 79,664 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 64 — Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 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:
| Mid install base (79,664 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (25 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 |
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 →💾 775 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v8.0.73🔄 updated 5d ago🌐 AR, BN, NL, EN, FR +20📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📝 About this app
WeChat is more than a messaging and social media app – it is a lifestyle for one billion users across the world. Chat and make calls with friends, read news and use local services in Official Accounts and Mini Programs, play games with friends, enjoy mobile payment features with Weixin Pay, and much more.
Why do one billion people use WeChat?
• MORE WAYS TO CHAT: Message friends using text, photo, voice, video, location sharing, and more. Create group chats with up to 500 members.
• VOICE & VIDEO CALLS: High-quality voice and video calls to anywhere in the world. Make group video calls with up to 15 people.
• REAL-TIME LOCATION: Not good at explaining directions? Share your real-time location with the tap of a button.
• MOMENTS: Never forget your favorite moments. Post photos, videos, and more to share with friends on your personal Moments stream.
• STICKER GALLERY: Browse thousands of fun, animated stickers to help express yourself in chats, including stickers with your favorite cartoon and movie characters.
• CUSTOM STICKERS: Make chatting more unique with custom stickers and selfie stickers.
• OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS: Tons of accounts to follow with original content and news for your reading pleasure.
• MINI PROGRAMS: Countless third-party services all within the WeChat app that don't require additional installation, saving you precious phone storage and time.
• TOP STORIES: See the latest articles your friends are reading and discover all kinds of interesting content.
• GAMES: Have fun and compete with friends in a huge selection of WeChat Mini Games and Tencent Games (available in select regions).
• WEIXIN PAY: Enjoy the convenience of world-leading mobile payment features with Weixin Pay and Wallet (available in select regions).
• WECHAT OUT: Make calls to mobile phones and landlines around the globe at super low rates (only available in select regions).
• WERUN: Use Healthkit and Health app data to sync your step count on WeRun, where you can compete against friends with daily step rankings. Enable WeRun in “Settings” > “General” > “Plug-ins”.
• LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Localized in 20+ different languages and can translate friends' messages and Moments posts.
• BETTER PRIVACY: Giving you the highest level of control over your privacy, WeChat is certified by TRUSTe - view our privacy policy for more information.
• EASY MODE: Clearer and larger text and buttons for better readability.
Why do one billion people use WeChat?
• MORE WAYS TO CHAT: Message friends using text, photo, voice, video, location sharing, and more. Create group chats with up to 500 members.
• VOICE & VIDEO CALLS: High-quality voice and video calls to anywhere in the world. Make group video calls with up to 15 people.
• REAL-TIME LOCATION: Not good at explaining directions? Share your real-time location with the tap of a button.
• MOMENTS: Never forget your favorite moments. Post photos, videos, and more to share with friends on your personal Moments stream.
• STICKER GALLERY: Browse thousands of fun, animated stickers to help express yourself in chats, including stickers with your favorite cartoon and movie characters.
• CUSTOM STICKERS: Make chatting more unique with custom stickers and selfie stickers.
• OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS: Tons of accounts to follow with original content and news for your reading pleasure.
• MINI PROGRAMS: Countless third-party services all within the WeChat app that don't require additional installation, saving you precious phone storage and time.
• TOP STORIES: See the latest articles your friends are reading and discover all kinds of interesting content.
• GAMES: Have fun and compete with friends in a huge selection of WeChat Mini Games and Tencent Games (available in select regions).
• WEIXIN PAY: Enjoy the convenience of world-leading mobile payment features with Weixin Pay and Wallet (available in select regions).
• WECHAT OUT: Make calls to mobile phones and landlines around the globe at super low rates (only available in select regions).
• WERUN: Use Healthkit and Health app data to sync your step count on WeRun, where you can compete against friends with daily step rankings. Enable WeRun in “Settings” > “General” > “Plug-ins”.
• LANGUAGE SUPPORT: Localized in 20+ different languages and can translate friends' messages and Moments posts.
• BETTER PRIVACY: Giving you the highest level of control over your privacy, WeChat is certified by TRUSTe - view our privacy policy for more information.
• EASY MODE: Clearer and larger text and buttons for better readability.
🆕 What's New · v8.0.73
What's New:
- Bug fixes and improvements.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Developer
- Bundle ID
- com.tencent.xin
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, BN, NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, MN, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SW, TA, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- WeChat - Connects with over 1 billion users | Chats · Calls · Life Services
- Description
- WeChat is a social communication app serving over 1 billion users, supporting free chat, HD voice and video calls, Moments, and mobile payments, making communication and life more convenient.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $11.5M ($11.0M – $12.0M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $138.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $27.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#8 /100 🇦🇺#10 /100 🇺🇸#28 /100 🇧🇷#59 /100 🇯🇵#67 /100 🇬🇧#72 /100 🇫🇷#75 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://x.com/Weixin_WeChat
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamwechat/
- 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
- facebook · linkedin · twitter
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://www.wechat.com/en/contact_us.html
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
WeChat's iOS app revenue is estimated to be between $11 million and $12 million monthly, based on recent Sensor Tower data from April 2026. This translates to an annual estimate of approximately $138 million, primarily driven by in-app purchases and commissions from its mini-program ecosystem.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Business of Apps, ElectroIQ, CoinLaw, Gadget Hacks, Reddit
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.41★ · 2.0% 5★ · 77.6% 1★
5★1 (2%)
4★1 (2%)
3★4 (8%)
2★5 (10%)
1★38 (78%)
+72 ratings/week
Complaints: bug ×2 worst ×1
Top positive
★★★☆☆ Why no screen share
Man why can’t we screen share I wanna do it but WeChat doesn’t have the option…
★★★★☆ 如何将wechat 的照片与中国的微信照片一致能 相互传输？
请答，谢谢。…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ 73版本杀后台太严重
73版本杀后台太严重…
★☆☆☆☆ Not use.
This is a monitoring software.…
📈Ratings growth79,672 ratings+24% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (24 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇨🇦CA#8 /100
🇦🇺AU#10 /100
🇺🇸US#28 /100
🇧🇷BR#59 /100
🇯🇵JP#67 /100
🇬🇧GB#72 /100
🇫🇷FR#75 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#8 now · best #8 · 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.
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