Microsoft Word
90
Quality Score
Transcendent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Microsoft Word on iOS targets the professional and academic productivity niche, directly competing with Apple Pages, Google Docs, and various third-party document editors. Its strong user rating across millions of reviews, combined with over $36K in estimated monthly revenue, indicates established market traction and a mature product in its growth cycle. This isn't a new entrant; it's a dominant player with a loyal user base. For paid productivity apps in this category, a common monetization observation is the shift towards subscription models, often bundled with broader service offerings like Microsoft 365. While a one-time purchase is possible, the recurring revenue from subscriptions is the primary driver, offering continuous feature updates and cloud integration as an upgrade path, rather than relying on per-download pricing or in-app ad revenue.
BU Score 90 · 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
$9.1M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.3M – $12.4M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$10.4M – $15.6M
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
643 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
2,983,139 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$9.1M
Snapshots tracked
643
since Dec 2025
🤖Also on Android
$574/mo · 17.3M ratings · 4.8★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$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 (523 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 12.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$74K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$183.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $137.0M – $238.0M · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~1220× 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 |
| 📅 12.5y 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
417.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
30.5M
Daily active
6.1M
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 |
| 📅 12.5y 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 · 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 | 523 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-14 · 11 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
| 📅 11 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$9.1M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
6 months
$8.9M – $10.9M
12 months
$9.3M – $12.4M
24 months
$10.4M – $15.6M
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 · 70/100MEGA TIERSUBSCRIPTIONabove-averageGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.2
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
7.0
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.6
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $3.6M - $18.2M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 2,983,139 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.89 ★ (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 = $163.6M-$290.9M.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (2,983,139 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (33 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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 · v2.113.5
• General quality and performance enhancements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Microsoft Word
- Developer
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bundle ID
- com.microsoft.Office.Word
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- office.microsoft.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $9.1M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#6 /100 🇬🇧#7 /100 🇫🇷#9 /100 🇧🇷#11 /100 🇮🇳#11 /100 🇩🇪#12 /100 🇨🇦#13 /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 growth2,963,817 ratings+3% 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
🇦🇺AU#6 /100
🇬🇧GB#7 /100
🇫🇷FR#9 /100
🇧🇷BR#11 /100
🇮🇳IN#11 /100
🇩🇪DE#12 /100
🇨🇦CA#13 /100
🇺🇸US#14 /100
🇯🇵JP#15 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#6 now · best #6 · worst #6
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter10 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
Send, open and edit Office files from your mobile with the full power of Microsoft’s word-processing tools. Whether you're a writer, freelancer, student or project manager, Word moves with you.
Enhance your writing with Copilot in Word when signed in with your Microsoft 365 subscription.* Draft, edit, collaborate, and share with confidence – anytime, anywhere.
Create impactful blogs, proposals, CVs, branding materials and more. Customise every document with rich formatting options and professionally designed templates.
Create Documents… View full description on the official store →
Enhance your writing with Copilot in Word when signed in with your Microsoft 365 subscription.* Draft, edit, collaborate, and share with confidence – anytime, anywhere.
Create impactful blogs, proposals, CVs, branding materials and more. Customise every document with rich formatting options and professionally designed templates.
Create Documents… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 523 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v2.113.5🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 AR, CA, HR, CS, DA +28📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
24 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2.112.3 → v2.113.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +36,124 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2.112.1 → v2.112.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +44,980 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.112 → v2.112.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +53,676 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.111.5 → v2.112
→ 30 days after: reviews +23,601 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.111.3 → v2.111.5
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.9K/mo · reviews +30,741 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.111.2 → v2.111.3
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.9K/mo · reviews +36,187 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.111.1 → v2.111.2
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.9K/mo · reviews +35,686 low · multiple changes
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.111 → v2.111.1
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.9K/mo · reviews +35,372 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.110 → v2.111
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.9K/mo · reviews +34,051 low · multiple changes
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.109.4 → v2.110
→ 30 days after: revenue −$18.9K/mo · reviews +34,885 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.109.3 → v2.109.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +35,835 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.109.2 → v2.109.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +35,015 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2.109.1 → v2.109.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +35,025 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2.109 → v2.109.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +36,281 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +29,822 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.109
→ 30 days after: rating +0.24★ · reviews +98,947 low · multiple changes
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$36.2K/mo · rating +1.81★ · reviews +2,773,973 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.76 → 4.50 (improved 1.74★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$36.2K/mo · rating +1.81★ · reviews +2,773,973 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$36.2K/mo · rating +1.80★ · reviews +2,773,981 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +177 high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 550 reviews across 7 markets● 35% positive · ● 30% neutral · ● 34% negative · Rating drift: -1.89★ (declining — recent 50: 2.84★ vs lifetime: 4.73★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.06
🇦🇺 AU
+0.06
🇫🇷 FR
+0.04
🇧🇷 BR
+0.03
🇺🇸 US
+0.03
🇬🇧 GB
-0.02
🇩🇪 DE
-0.13
Top praise themes
read aloud ×6 muito bom ×6 font theme ×4 academic writing ×4 left off ×4 bill gates ×3 default font ×3 font default ×3
Top complaint themes
version sucks ×38 sucks version ×36 google docs ×9 one drive ×8 auf dem ×7 won let ×6 copy paste ×6 dem ipad ×6
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 3% Bug mentions: 6% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.5%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.60217★ | 295,410 | 4.60217★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83502★ | 677,280 | 4.83502★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.63876★ | 391,036 | 4.63876★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.52402★ | 411,266 | 4.52402★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.63062★ | 346,440 | 4.63062★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.641★ | 779,809 | 4.641★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.65385★ | 248,825 | 4.65385★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.50622★ | 523,721 | 4.50622★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.73341★ | 2,985,288 | 4.73341★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Microsoft Word: 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: 2,983,139 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Microsoft Word make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Microsoft Word earns approximately $9.1M/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 Microsoft Word profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $150K and monthly revenue $9.1M, Microsoft Word 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 Microsoft Word have?▴
Estimated audience: ~417.5M lifetime downloads, ~30.5M monthly active users, and ~6.1M 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 Microsoft Word?▴
Browse the full Utilities category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Microsoft Word built with?▴
Our heuristic places Microsoft Word 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 Microsoft Word still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Microsoft Word sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $183.0M (marketplace range $137.0M – $238.0M). 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 Microsoft Word last updated?▴
Microsoft Word 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 Microsoft Word?▴
Microsoft Word is published by Microsoft Corporation 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 Microsoft Word's BU Score?▴
Microsoft Word has a BU Score of 90/100 (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.