How much does Steam Mobile make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Steam Mobile earns approximately $17/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 Steam Mobile?

Steam Mobile is published by Valve 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 Steam Mobile's BU Score?

Steam Mobile has a BU Score of 47/100 (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.

Steam Mobile

Quality Score

Emerging

Steam Mobile

Name: Steam Mobile — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Steam Mobile revenue, Steam Mobile app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, News revenue, iOS app revenue

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Steam Mobile is an iOS app from Valve in the News category, currently rated 2.6★ across 11,404 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.

Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News 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 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

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$60K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $45K – $80K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

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
⚙ News complexity ×1.20	+$10K

Total estimate $60K

👥 Estimated audience size

1.4M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

200K

Daily active

90K

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

📲 News engagement	~120 installs / rating
🔁 News D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.45

DAU / MAU 45% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 42/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Revenue Strength

3.7

Product Quality

5.3

Market Position

2.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

6.0

Operational Safety

8.0

Founder Strength

3.0

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 2.63★ across 11,404 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $90K-$160K.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 5 of 5 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Mid install base (11,404 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
Below-average rating (2.6★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (14y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v3.10.9

- Improvements to Steam Frame bluetooth scanning reliability
- Other minor fixes

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Steam Mobile
Developer: Valve
Bundle ID: com.valvesoftware.Steam
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: News
Content rating: 12+
Languages: EN

Company

Website: store.steampowered.com
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

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $18/mo
Top-grossing rank: Outside top 100 in US News
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 growth11,404 ratings+17% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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

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App Specs

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💾 39 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v3.10.9🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Free

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

3 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: reviews +269 high confidence

2026-04

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +10,998 high confidence

2026-03

🔧

Shipped update — v? → v3.10.9

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇺🇸 US	2.63214★	11,431	2.63214★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	2.49275★	1,380	2.49275★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	2.40667★	2,250	2.40667★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	2.45026★	764	2.45026★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	1.74875★	1,405	1.74875★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	2.32621★	1,450	2.32621★ this version
🇦🇺 AU	2.38158★	760	2.38158★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	2.44854★	1,030	2.44854★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	2.93089★	246	2.93089★ this version

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Steam Mobile: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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