76
BU Score
Strong
Pinger: Call Plus Texting App
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Pinger: Call Plus Texting App is an iOS app from Pinger, Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 68,100 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 76 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (68,100 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Single-language (English only)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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 230 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 vv13.17🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (13y old)
📝 About this app
Make free calls with a real U.S.phone number on the original free calling and texting app. Pinger comes preloaded with free calling minutes that can be used to call anyone in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. After that, minutes are free to earn or cheap to purchase. SMS messages are also free. On top of free calling and SMS, additional features include voicemail, group chat, MMS picture & video messaging, emoji, ringtones, and more.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“It’s like having a real phone number from the carrier. Except FREE.” –Nick
“I started using this app back in 2007 on my iPod touch 3rd generation... Works every time, voice calls are clear, and no one knows it’s an app and not an actual phone. Highly recommended.” –Scott
“I have used this app as my main phone number for years. It is just as reliable as an actual phone number.” –Kay
“I’ve tried several, but hands down, Pinger is by far the best. Why? Simple: It works. Period.” –Tuc
“I would rate this like 100,000,000 stars but can’t :/ only 5.” –Molly
“Great to have a backup number especially when you travel abroad.” –Milo
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© 2020 Pinger, Inc. All rights reserved. The Pinger name, associated trademarks, and logos are trademarks of Pinger, Inc. or related entities.
Terms of Service: https://www.pinger.com/privacy-policy/terms-and-conditions/
Privacy Policy: https://www.pinger.com/privacy-policy/
Subscriptions are automatically billed monthly or annually to your iTunes Account and auto-renew unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payments are charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase. You can turn off auto-renew or manage subscriptions in your iTunes & App Store account settings. Cancellations take effect at the end of the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period (where available) is forfeited when purchasing a subscription.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“It’s like having a real phone number from the carrier. Except FREE.” –Nick
“I started using this app back in 2007 on my iPod touch 3rd generation... Works every time, voice calls are clear, and no one knows it’s an app and not an actual phone. Highly recommended.” –Scott
“I have used this app as my main phone number for years. It is just as reliable as an actual phone number.” –Kay
“I’ve tried several, but hands down, Pinger is by far the best. Why? Simple: It works. Period.” –Tuc
“I would rate this like 100,000,000 stars but can’t :/ only 5.” –Molly
“Great to have a backup number especially when you travel abroad.” –Milo
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© 2020 Pinger, Inc. All rights reserved. The Pinger name, associated trademarks, and logos are trademarks of Pinger, Inc. or related entities.
Terms of Service: https://www.pinger.com/privacy-policy/terms-and-conditions/
Privacy Policy: https://www.pinger.com/privacy-policy/
Subscriptions are automatically billed monthly or annually to your iTunes Account and auto-renew unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payments are charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase. You can turn off auto-renew or manage subscriptions in your iTunes & App Store account settings. Cancellations take effect at the end of the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period (where available) is forfeited when purchasing a subscription.
🆕 What's New · vv13.17
Every Pinger update improves speed and reliability.
This release includes minor bug fixes and enhancements.
If you’re enjoying Pinger, please leave us a rating or review.
This release includes minor bug fixes and enhancements.
If you’re enjoying Pinger, please leave us a rating or review.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pinger: Call Plus Texting App
- Developer
- Pinger, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.pinger.pingerphone2
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Developer of Sideline and TextFree | Pinger
- Description
- Pinger makes the mobile apps Sideline and TextFree to provide an alternative to traditional carrier plans and business phone systems for millions of users.
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
- OG image
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
- $8.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
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- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
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- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
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- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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Press & Links
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- Listed on
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.43★ · 24.5% 5★ · 53.1% 1★
5★12 (24%)
4★4 (8%)
3★3 (6%)
2★4 (8%)
1★26 (53%)
+138 ratings/week
Praise: love ×4 best ×3 great ×2 amazing ×1 perfect ×1Complaints: scam ×3 hate ×2 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ One of the best texting app
Good…
★★★★★ Trust
Very good app fast and reliable…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Ng man
They locked my account for no reason…
★☆☆☆☆ Paywall
Already know why we need it for verification or second phone. Too bad you must pay .…
📈Ratings growth68,100 ratings+10% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (49 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
