Android Switch
44
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Android Switch is an iOS app from Google in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.5★ across 88 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 44: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities app, that means early traction worth watching. 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 tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
11 snapshots on record
Rating
3.5
Reviews
88 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
11
since Nov 2024
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~12 months 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙ 3.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$18K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 3.1y proven track record | +16% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 30 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2025-10-27 · 340 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 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥 Small user base (88 ratings) + 3.1y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
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
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, 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
Stalled · 38/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.4
Product Quality
1.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
3.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.45★ across 88 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 334d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — rating drift -1.36 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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. Portfolio play ($744K/mo combined) commands premium. 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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Below-average rating (3.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (33 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (88 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v1.0.17452
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Android Switch
- Developer
- Bundle ID
- com.google.sta
- 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
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 growth97 ratings+9600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (11 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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
The Android Switch app from Google helps you easily and securely move your photos, videos, contacts, and calendar events to a brand new Android device without a cable.
Get important info about switching and follow the steps to set up your new device, like turning off iMessage so you don't miss text messages from friends and family.
The app will ask you for a series of permissions so that your iPhone’s data can be moved to your Android device.
Switching to Samsung? You don't need this app. Turn on your new phone and follow the instructions instead.
Get important info about switching and follow the steps to set up your new device, like turning off iMessage so you don't miss text messages from friends and family.
The app will ask you for a series of permissions so that your iPhone’s data can be moved to your Android device.
Switching to Samsung? You don't need this app. Turn on your new phone and follow the instructions instead.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 30 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.0.17452🔄 updated 11mo ago🌐 AR, CA, HR, CS, DA +28📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2023 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 →
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.90 → 3.45 (dropped 0.45★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.71 → 3.90 (improved 1.19★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 2.71 (improved 0.38★)
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.80 → 2.33 (improved 0.53★)
2025-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.33★ high confidence
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.33★ high confidence
2024-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 43 reviews across 8 markets● 23% positive · ● 46% neutral · ● 30% negative · Rating drift: -1.36★ (declining — recent 50: 2.09★ vs lifetime: 3.45★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.24
🇯🇵 JP
+0.08
🇺🇸 US
+0.00
🇬🇧 GB
-0.06
🇧🇷 BR
-0.07
🇮🇳 IN
-0.15
🇩🇪 DE
-0.40
🇨🇦 CA
-0.45
Top praise themes
apple ×3 iphone ×3 works ×3 pixel ×3
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×6 doesnt work ×5 whatsapp chats ×3 work doesn ×3 transfer ×7 code ×5 não ×5 useless ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 5%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.36364★ | 11 | 2.36364★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3★ | 27 | 3★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.57143★ | 14 | 2.57143★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.83333★ | 30 | 3.83333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.52632★ | 19 | 2.52632★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.53333★ | 30 | 2.53333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.20588★ | 34 | 2.20588★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.56757★ | 37 | 2.56757★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.41237★ | 97 | 3.41237★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 88 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Android Switch make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Android Switch 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 Android Switch profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $60K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Android Switch looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 12 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Android Switch?▴
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What is Android Switch built with?▴
Our heuristic places Android Switch on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 (Swift / UIKit).
Is Android Switch still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Android Switch sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $45K – $75K). Calculated as 12× 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 Android Switch last updated?▴
Android Switch last shipped a new version on 2025-10-27 — 11 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Android Switch?▴
Android Switch 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 Android Switch's BU Score?▴
Android Switch has a BU Score of 44/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.