ConnectWise Control
31
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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ConnectWise Control is an iOS app from ConnectWise in the Business category, currently rated 1.7★ across 758 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 31: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Business app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
184 snapshots on record
Rating
1.7
Reviews
758 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
184
since May 2011
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.8y 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 |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
| ⚙ 15.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$93K |
Total estimate
$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 |
| 📅 15.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
34K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.4K
Daily active
420
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 📅 15.5y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 29 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Business |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2020-01-16 · 2446 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
| 📅 6y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 16y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 28/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
0.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.68★ across 758 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2443d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.50 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (2443d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (1.7★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (758 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 · v2019.5.26289.0
- Added the ability for guests to consent to host requests
- Fixed bug where text in application is invisible if the device is in dark mode
- Fixed bug where text in application is invisible if the device is in dark mode
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ConnectWise Control
- Developer
- ConnectWise
- Bundle ID
- com.elsitech.screenconnect.HostClient
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth843 ratings+112% lifetimeShow 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.
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
The official ConnectWise Control app lets you instantly connect to and remotely control devices, bringing the power and convenience of ConnectWise Control to your iPhone or iPad. You don’t have to be tethered to your desk to resolve support issues or gain access to your work or personal devices. Get secure access to Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices anytime, anywhere.
With this app you can:
-Host and join remote support and unattended access sessions in your existing ConnectWise Control instance
-Remotely control computers and workstations… View full description on the official store →
With this app you can:
-Host and join remote support and unattended access sessions in your existing ConnectWise Control instance
-Remotely control computers and workstations… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 29 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v2019.5.26289.0🔄 updated 6y ago📂 Business💰 Free🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 →
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +47 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2020-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.55 (dropped 0.45★)
2013-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 2.71 (dropped 0.79★)
2012-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.50 (improved 0.50★)
2012-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.50★ low · multiple changes
2012-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2011-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 470 reviews across 4 markets● 34% positive · ● 12% neutral · ● 55% negative · Rating drift: -0.50★ (declining — recent 50: 1.18★ vs lifetime: 1.68★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.83
🇬🇧 GB
-0.12
🇺🇸 US
-0.13
🇨🇦 CA
-0.18
Top praise themes
latest update ×5 don download ×3 ipad pro ×3 works ×11 scam ×7 support ×7 login ×7 phone ×6
Top complaint themes
scam scam ×27 mouse support ×18 don download ×17 keyboard mouse ×16 access phone ×14 scammers scammers ×14 mouse keyboard ×14 scam scammers ×12
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.5% Bug mentions: 3% Fraud / scam mentions: 33.0%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1.6★ | 30 | 1.6★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1.63043★ | 46 | 1.63043★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1.36923★ | 65 | 1.36923★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1.6★ | 35 | 1.6★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.44928★ | 69 | 4.44928★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2★ | 3 | 2★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.67874★ | 856 | 1.67874★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ConnectWise Control: 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 medium confidence: 758 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ConnectWise Control make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ConnectWise Control earns approximately $5.0K/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 ConnectWise Control profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, ConnectWise Control looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does ConnectWise Control have?▴
Estimated audience: ~34K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~420 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 ConnectWise Control?▴
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What is ConnectWise Control built with?▴
Our heuristic places ConnectWise Control on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is ConnectWise Control still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would ConnectWise Control sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 15× 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 ConnectWise Control last updated?▴
ConnectWise Control last shipped a new version on 2020-01-16 — more than 6 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes ConnectWise Control?▴
ConnectWise Control is published by ConnectWise 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 ConnectWise Control's BU Score?▴
ConnectWise Control has a BU Score of 31/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.