How much does Apple Developer make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Apple Developer earns approximately $700K/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 Apple Developer profitable?

With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $700K, Apple Developer 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 Apple Developer have?

Estimated audience: ~215K lifetime downloads, ~10K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 is Apple Developer built with?

Our heuristic places Apple Developer on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).

Is Apple Developer still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Apple Developer sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $12.5M (marketplace range $9.5M – $16.5M). 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 Apple Developer last updated?

Apple Developer last shipped a new version on 2026-06-08 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Apple Developer?

Apple Developer is published by Apple 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 Apple Developer's BU Score?

Apple Developer has a BU Score of 57/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Apple Developer

Quality Score

Solid

Apple Developer

Name: Apple Developer — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Apple Developer revenue, Apple Developer app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, mobile app revenue, iOS app revenue

by Apple

Medium confidence

4.1 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Apple Developer is an iOS app from Apple, currently rated 4.1★ across 2,062 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For an app like this, that means established niche player. 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

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

40 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.1

Reviews

2,062 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$700K

Snapshots tracked

since Mar 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$130K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $100K – $175K

$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
⚙ 13.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$79K

Total estimate $130K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$12.5M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $9.5M – $16.5M · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~96× 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
📅 13.3y proven track record	+20%

Final multiple 18× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

215K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

10K

Daily active

2.0K

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

📲 category engagement	~150 installs / rating
📅 13.3y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 category D30 retention	15%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Native iOS (SwiftUI)

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	27 MB
🏷 Category context	category
📦 Compact iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Slowing

30%

Last shipped 2026-06-08 · 113 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

📅 3 months since last update

Slowing cadence

Verdict Slowing

🔬

How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$690K – $933K

12 months

$741K – $1.1M

24 months

$886K – $1.6M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Revenue Strength

5.8

Product Quality

7.4

Market Position

2.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

7.5

Operational Safety

10.0

Founder Strength

7.5

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.09★ across 2,062 reviews — solid.
📍 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: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.

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 10 of 10 triggers

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

bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Low install base (2,062 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
too expensiveREVIEW		−$1,000
support teamREVIEW		+$900
Good rating (4.1★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Localized (7 languages)METRIC		+$600

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 · v11.0.2

Thank you for your feedback! New in this release:

• Refreshed look with Liquid Glass.
• List filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, and preferred topics.
• Improved reliability of image capture during enrollment.
• Bug fixes and various other enhancements.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: Apple Developer
Developer: Apple
Bundle ID: developer.apple.wwdc-Release
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Not found
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN, FR, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES

Company

Website: Not found
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: $700K/mo
Top-grossing rank: 🇮🇳#25 /100 🇧🇷#70 /100 🇫🇷#75 /100 🇯🇵#83 /100 🇦🇺#88 /100 🇨🇦#100 /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 growth2,161 ratings+6% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (40 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries

🇮🇳IN

#25 /100

🇧🇷BR

#70 /100

🇫🇷FR

#75 /100

🇯🇵JP

#83 /100

🇦🇺AU

#88 /100

🇨🇦CA

#100 /100

📊Category Rank Trajectory#25 now · best #25 · worst #25

Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart

🚀Version Release Timeline3 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

Welcome to Apple Developer, your source for developer news, features, and videos — and the best place to experience WWDC.

• Keep up to date on the latest Apple frameworks and technologies.
• Browse news, features, developer stories, and more.
• Catch up on videos from past events and download them to watch offline.
• Enroll in the Apple Developer Program in supported locales.

App Specs

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💾 27 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v11.0.2🔄 updated 3mo ago🌐 EN, FR, JA, KO, PT +2💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)

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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 →

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v11.0.1 → v11.0.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +36 high confidence

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v11.0 → v11.0.1

→ 30 days after: reviews +51 high confidence

2026-03

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +16 high confidence

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇺🇸 US	4.04188★	2,173	4.04188★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	3.99237★	262	3.99237★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.01311★	305	4.01311★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	3.88679★	265	3.88679★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.01449★	207	4.01449★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	3.90909★	154	3.90909★ this version
🇦🇺 AU	3.97458★	118	3.97458★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	3.49673★	153	3.49673★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	3.42995★	414	3.42995★ this version

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