Paramount+
76
Quality Score
Strong
Paramount+
by CBS Interactive
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Paramount+ is an iOS app from CBS Interactive in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 920,198 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. 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 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
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
920,198 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
5
since Apr 2026
🤖Also on Android
$212/mo · 509K ratings · 4.1★
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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 ~2.7y 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 (200 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 13.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$81K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 13.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
128.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.9M
Daily active
1.6M
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 |
| 📅 13.5y 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 · 60%
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 | 200 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-02 · 25 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
| 📅 25 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
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
Below median · 49/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.4
Product Quality
7.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
7.0
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
2.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 920,198 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 6% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm.
🎯 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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (920,198 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v15.25.0
Gearing up for your next streaming adventure? Get to your destination in style with the latest Paramount+ app version, complete with bug fixes and more. Just be sure to update your app before you hit the road for safe travels!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Paramount+
- Developer
- CBS Interactive
- Bundle ID
- com.cbsvideo.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.paramountplus.com
- Tagline
- A MOUNTAIN OF ENTERTAINMENT.
- Description
- Schau dir beliebte Filme, neue Originals und deine Lieblingsserien mit Paramount+ an. Starte das Streaming auf jedem Gerät!
- 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
- 🇺🇸#3 /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.
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #3 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
Stream exclusive originals, blockbuster movies, live sports like NFL on CBS, UFC, and UEFA Champions League, all of SHOWTIME® (Premium plan only), and favorites from CBS, BET, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, and more.
- Watch full episodes on demand from hit series like Survivor, South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants and more.
- Obsess over originals. Watch subscriber-only originals such as Landman, 1923 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- Stream UFC live and on demand. Catch all Numbered Events and Fight Nights, plus a huge library of iconic fights and finishes.… View full description on the official store →
- Watch full episodes on demand from hit series like Survivor, South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants and more.
- Obsess over originals. Watch subscriber-only originals such as Landman, 1923 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
- Stream UFC live and on demand. Catch all Numbered Events and Fight Nights, plus a huge library of iconic fights and finishes.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 200 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v15.25.0🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 — v15.23.0 → v15.25.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +11,213 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v15.20.1 → v15.23.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$252/mo · reviews +28,927 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v15.18.0 → v15.20.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$252/mo · reviews +38,392 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +20,678 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v15.18.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +882,672 low · multiple changes
2026-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +861,994 high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 500 reviews across 1 markets● 50% positive · ● 10% neutral · ● 40% negative · Rating drift: -2.45★ (declining — recent 50: 2.18★ vs lifetime: 4.63★)
Top praise themes
shows movies ×6 movies shows ×4 favorite show ×4 big brother ×4 show movie ×4 only watch ×3 watch favorite ×3 please add ×3
Top complaint themes
worst streaming ×17 fatal error ×12 doesn work ×11 streaming service ×11 try watch ×9 ads ads ×8 ads pay ×8 trying watch ×7
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.0% Subscription complaints: 6% Bug mentions: 9% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.2%
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Paramount+: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 920,198 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Paramount+ make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Paramount+ 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 Paramount+ profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Paramount+ looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.7 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Paramount+ have?▴
Estimated audience: ~128.5M lifetime downloads, ~7.9M monthly active users, and ~1.6M 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 Paramount+?▴
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What is Paramount+ built with?▴
Our heuristic places Paramount+ on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Paramount+ still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 25 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Paramount+ sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 18× 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 Paramount+ last updated?▴
Paramount+ last shipped a new version on 2026-09-02 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Paramount+?▴
Paramount+ is published by CBS Interactive 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 Paramount+'s BU Score?▴
Paramount+ has a BU Score of 76/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.