TP-Link Tether
86
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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TP-Link Tether is an iOS app from TP-LINK SYSTEMS INC. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 847,723 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 86: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$4.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.1M – $5.5M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.6M – $6.9M
per month
MEGA tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
542 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
847,723 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$4.0M
Snapshots tracked
542
since Jan 2026
🤖Also on Android
$189/mo · 849K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (356 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-14925 |
| ⚙ 13.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$79K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$137.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $103.0M – $178.5M · 34× MRR multiple
💸
~830× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 📅 13.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
34× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
118.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.8M
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 |
| 📅 13.2y 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 | 356 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-02 · 27 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
| 📅 27 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)
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
Mixed signals · 67/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.0
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
6.6
Monetization Maturity
4.0
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.6M - $8.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 847,723 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (847,723 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (25 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TP-Link Tether
- Developer
- TP-LINK SYSTEMS INC.
- Bundle ID
- com.tplink.tether
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, BG, CS, NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RO, RU, SK, ES, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- www.tp-link.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
- 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
- 🇯🇵#73 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $2.99 - $159.99 per item
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 growth847,723 ratings+175412% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇯🇵
JP
Top-grossing rank: #73 / 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.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#73 now · best #73 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter7 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline7 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
TP-Link Tether provides the easiest way to access and manage your TP-Link Router/ xDSL Router/ Range Extender with your mobile devices. From quick setup to parental controls, Tether provides a simple, intuitive user interface to see your device status, online client devices and their privileges.
- Setup SSID, password and Internet or VDSL/ADSL settings of your devices
- Block unauthorized users who are accessing your devices
- Manage permissions of client devices
- Parental control function with schedule and URL-based Internet access management… View full description on the official store →
- Setup SSID, password and Internet or VDSL/ADSL settings of your devices
- Block unauthorized users who are accessing your devices
- Manage permissions of client devices
- Parental control function with schedule and URL-based Internet access management… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 356 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v4.15.76🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 AR, BN, BG, CS, NL +20📂 Utilities💰 Paid💎 IAP $2.99 - $159.99 per item🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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
📈
Crossed 500,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 6 of 8 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.15.19 → v4.15.76
→ 30 days after: revenue −$27.6K/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +697,268 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.15.18 → v4.15.19
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,511 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.15.4 → v4.15.18
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.9K/mo · reviews +4,472 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.14.40 → v4.15.4
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.9K/mo · reviews +6,352 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.14.20 → v4.14.40
→ 30 days after: reviews +5,753 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v4.14.3 → v4.14.20
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,357 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,277 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.1K/mo · reviews +84 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$26.4K/mo · rating −0.18★ · reviews +434 low · multiple changes
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$24.5K/mo · rating −0.19★ · reviews +402 low · multiple changes
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$22.6K/mo · rating −0.19★ · reviews +372 low · multiple changes
2026-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.9K/mo · rating −0.18★ · reviews +359 low · multiple changes
📸
Store Page History
6 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-07
2026-09-10
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-07
2026-09-10
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-07
2026-09-10
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-07
2026-09-10
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-07
2026-09-10
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-07
2026-09-10
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — tp-link.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · Notion (workspace)
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.76454★ | 12,690 | 4.76454★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.81751★ | 24,539 | 4.81751★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.73081★ | 19,548 | 4.73081★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.71304★ | 20,362 | 4.71304★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.73191★ | 13,645 | 4.73191★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.72206★ | 24,351 | 4.72206★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.81571★ | 28,482 | 4.81571★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.54552★ | 35,885 | 4.54552★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.7881★ | 157,951 | 4.7881★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for TP-Link Tether: 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: 847,723 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does TP-Link Tether make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, TP-Link Tether 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 TP-Link Tether profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $4.0M, TP-Link Tether 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 TP-Link Tether have?▴
Estimated audience: ~118.5M lifetime downloads, ~7.8M 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 TP-Link Tether?▴
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What is TP-Link Tether built with?▴
Our heuristic places TP-Link Tether 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 TP-Link Tether still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 27 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would TP-Link Tether sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $137.0M (marketplace range $103.0M – $178.5M). Calculated as 34× 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 TP-Link Tether last updated?▴
TP-Link Tether 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 TP-Link Tether?▴
TP-Link Tether is published by TP-LINK SYSTEMS INC. 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 TP-Link Tether's BU Score?▴
TP-Link Tether has a BU Score of 86/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.