Google Drive
92
Quality Score
Transcendent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This app targets the cloud storage and document collaboration niche, directly competing with services like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Apple iCloud. Its robust user feedback, with millions of ratings and a strong average score, signals significant, sustained traction and a mature product in a highly competitive market. Despite being a free app, its estimated monthly revenue, while modest for its scale, suggests a successful upsell strategy for premium storage tiers or enterprise solutions, likely driven by the developer’s broader ecosystem. In the productivity category, a common monetization observation is the freemium model, where basic functionality is free to drive adoption, with upgrades to increased storage, advanced features, or team-based access serving as the primary revenue drivers, often through subscription-based IAPs.
BU Score 92 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$4.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.1M – $5.5M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.6M – $6.9M
per month
MEGA tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
592 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
7,807,230 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$4.0M
Snapshots tracked
592
since Jan 2026
🤖Also on Android
$292/mo · 10.8M ratings · 4.3★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (436 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 14.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$85K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$80.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $60.5M – $104.5M · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~503× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅 14.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1093.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
57.5M
Daily active
11.5M
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 14.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
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 | 436 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-14 · 13 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
| 📅 13 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$4.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$3.9M – $4.8M
12 months
$4.1M – $5.5M
24 months
$4.6M – $6.9M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Strong fundamentals · 72/100MEGA TIERSUBSCRIPTIONabove-averageGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.4
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
6.6
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.2
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.6M - $8.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.78★ across 7,807,230 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -1.02 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $72.0M-$128.0M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (7,807,230 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (66 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v4.2637.41400
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Google Drive
- Developer
- Bundle ID
- com.google.Drive
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, AM, AR, HY, AZ, EU, BE, BN, BG, KM, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, GL, KA, DE, EL, GU, HE, HI, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, KN, KK, KO, LO, LV, LT, MS, ML, MR, MN, NE, NB, FA, PL, PT, PA, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SI, SK, SL, ES, SW, SV, TA, TE, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI, ZU
Company
- Website
- drive.google.com
- Tagline
- Sign in
- Description
- Access Google Drive with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $4.0M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#4 /100 🇮🇳#5 /100 🇯🇵#12 /100 🇨🇦#12 /100 🇺🇸#13 /100 🇬🇧#15 /100 🇫🇷#15 /100
- 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 growth7,768,679 ratings+2% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇧🇷BR#4 /100
🇮🇳IN#5 /100
🇯🇵JP#12 /100
🇨🇦CA#12 /100
🇺🇸US#13 /100
🇬🇧GB#15 /100
🇫🇷FR#15 /100
🇦🇺AU#17 /100
🇩🇪DE#18 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#4 now · best #4 · worst #4
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter12 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 releases tracked
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
Google Drive lets you securely store, intelligently organize and collaborate on files and folders from anywhere, on any device.
With Drive, you can:
• Safely store and access your files anywhere
• Edit and store 100+ file types, including PDFs, Office files, videos and more
• Scan and upload paper documents using your device’s camera
• Quickly access recent and important files
• Search for files by name and content
• Filter files by type, last modified date and more
• Share and set permissions for files and folders
• View your content on the go while offline… View full description on the official store →
With Drive, you can:
• Safely store and access your files anywhere
• Edit and store 100+ file types, including PDFs, Office files, videos and more
• Scan and upload paper documents using your device’s camera
• Quickly access recent and important files
• Search for files by name and content
• Filter files by type, last modified date and more
• Share and set permissions for files and folders
• View your content on the go while offline… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 436 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v4.2637.41400🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 AF, AM, AR, HY, AZ +61📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
25 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2631.41401 → v4.2635.41602
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2630.41400 → v4.2631.41401
→ 30 days after: reviews +88,740 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2629.41000 → v4.2630.41400
→ 30 days after: reviews +97,662 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2628.31200 → v4.2629.41000
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.6K/mo · reviews +50,482 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2627.41401 → v4.2628.31200
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.6K/mo · reviews +56,577 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2625.41405 → v4.2627.41401
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.6K/mo · reviews +70,305 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2625.41403 → v4.2625.41405
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.6K/mo · reviews +70,239 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2625.41401 → v4.2625.41403
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.6K/mo · reviews +67,516 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2624.41402b → v4.2625.41401
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.6K/mo · reviews +69,087 low · multiple changes
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2623.41000 → v4.2624.41402b
→ 30 days after: revenue +$8.6K/mo · reviews +72,766 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2622.41005 → v4.2623.41000
→ 30 days after: reviews +75,374 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2622.41004 → v4.2622.41005
→ 30 days after: reviews +74,426 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2621.41000 → v4.2622.41004
→ 30 days after: reviews +77,488 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2620.41203 → v4.2621.41000
→ 30 days after: reviews +81,916 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v4.2619.41400 → v4.2620.41203
→ 30 days after: reviews +77,805 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v4.2619.41400
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ · reviews +196,931 low · multiple changes
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.56 → 4.70 (improved 1.14★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ · reviews +132,301 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ · reviews +132,301 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$31.6K/mo · rating +1.14★ · reviews +7,395,389 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +328 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #18Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
file manager·#18🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 800 reviews across 9 markets● 51% positive · ● 31% neutral · ● 18% negative · Rating drift: -1.02★ (declining — recent 50: 3.76★ vs lifetime: 4.78★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.43
🇺🇸 US
+0.31
🇬🇧 GB
+0.28
🇨🇦 CA
+0.24
🇦🇺 AU
+0.24
🇯🇵 JP
+0.10
🇫🇷 FR
+0.08
🇧🇷 BR
+0.06
🇩🇪 DE
-0.07
Top praise themes
easy access ×6 being able ×6 one place ×6 user friendly ×5 files phone ×5 cloud storage ×5 tiki tiki ×5 files one ×5
Top complaint themes
lake ontario ×8 doesn work ×5 one month ×4 das bild ×4 ontario lake ×3 user friendly ×3 upload photos ×3 das ist ×3
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.69772★ | 458,761 | 4.69772★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.8746★ | 2,153,018 | 4.8746★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.70847★ | 834,157 | 4.70847★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.66118★ | 322,353 | 4.66118★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.66624★ | 646,285 | 4.66624★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69953★ | 707,271 | 4.69953★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.7161★ | 1,774,949 | 4.7161★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.5875★ | 1,151,160 | 4.5875★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.77725★ | 7,819,990 | 4.77725★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Google Drive: 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 high confidence: 7,807,230 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Google Drive make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Google Drive earns approximately $4.0M/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 Google Drive profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $4.0M, Google Drive looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Google Drive have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1093.0M lifetime downloads, ~57.5M monthly active users, and ~11.5M 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 Google Drive?▴
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What is Google Drive built with?▴
Our heuristic places Google Drive on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Google Drive still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 13 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Google Drive sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $80.5M (marketplace range $60.5M – $104.5M). Calculated as 20× 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 Google Drive last updated?▴
Google Drive last shipped a new version on 2026-09-14 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Google Drive?▴
Google Drive is published by Google 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 Google Drive's BU Score?▴
Google Drive has a BU Score of 92/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.