Claude by Anthropic
84
Quality Score
Excellent
Claude by Anthropic
by Anthropic PBC
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Claude by Anthropic is an iOS app from Anthropic PBC in the News category, currently rated 4.7★ across 269,941 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a News 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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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
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
269,941 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
506
since Mar 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.1y 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 (161 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 2.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$14K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× 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 |
| 📅 2.4y proven track record | +12% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
28.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.0M
Daily active
1.8M
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 2.4y of rating accumulation | -12% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 161 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-25 · 8 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
| 📅 8 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
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
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 TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.6
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 269,941 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($32K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (269,941 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v1.260923.51
Squashed some bugs and improved the overall experience. Yours, Claude
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Claude by Anthropic
- Developer
- Anthropic PBC
- Bundle ID
- com.anthropic.claude
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, ES
Company
- Website
- claude.ai
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#2 /100 🇬🇧#2 /100 🇩🇪#2 /100 🇫🇷#2 /100 🇯🇵#2 /100 🇨🇦#2 /100 🇦🇺#2 /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 growth268,668 ratings+60005% 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
🇺🇸US#2 /100
🇬🇧GB#2 /100
🇩🇪DE#2 /100
🇫🇷FR#2 /100
🇯🇵JP#2 /100
🇨🇦CA#2 /100
🇦🇺AU#2 /100
🇮🇳IN#2 /100
🇧🇷BR#3 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#2 now · best #2 · worst #47
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Meet Claude, your AI problem solver and thinking partner. Claude works with you to write, research, code, and tackle complex problems and hard questions with depth and precision. It enhances your thinking and expands what you're capable of, right from your phone.
AI WRITING ASSISTANT
Turn rough ideas into polished work. Whether you're crafting social media posts, professional emails, or complex reports, Claude refines tone, structure, and clarity, iterating with you until your voice comes through.… View full description on the official store →
AI WRITING ASSISTANT
Turn rough ideas into polished work. Whether you're crafting social media posts, professional emails, or complex reports, Claude refines tone, structure, and clarity, iterating with you until your voice comes through.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 161 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v1.260923.51🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, HI, ID +5📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y 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
🔧
Shipped update — v1.260819.0 → v1.260921.19
→ 30 days after: reviews +27,036 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.260716.0 → v1.260819.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +65,192 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +38,156 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.260611.1 → v1.260716.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.2K/mo · reviews +65,563 low · multiple changes
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.2K/mo · reviews +27,407 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.260507.0 → v1.260611.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.2K/mo · reviews +68,091 low · multiple changes
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +40,684 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.260507.0
→ 30 days after: rating +0.22★ · reviews +112,327 low · multiple changes
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.21★ · reviews +71,643 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.15 → 4.50 (improved 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.21★ · reviews +71,643 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$23.0K/mo · rating −0.50★ · reviews +63,741 low · multiple changes
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$23.0K/mo · rating −0.50★ · reviews +63,741 low · multiple changes
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$23.0K/mo · rating −0.50★ · reviews +63,741 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$23.0K/mo · rating −0.50★ · reviews +63,741 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
16 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
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
2026-07-19
Slot 2
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
2026-07-19
Slot 3
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
2026-07-19
Slot 4
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
2026-07-19
Slot 5
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
2026-07-19
Slot 6
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
2026-07-19
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — claude.ai
- Tech stack
- Google 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.72219★ | 271,683 | 4.72219★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66012★ | 31,270 | 4.66012★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.57277★ | 28,809 | 4.57277★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.64285★ | 40,468 | 4.64285★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.54047★ | 41,306 | 4.54047★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.67889★ | 30,978 | 4.67889★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.69651★ | 17,101 | 4.69651★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.7946★ | 27,294 | 4.7946★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.60665★ | 24,795 | 4.60665★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Claude by Anthropic: 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: 269,941 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Claude by Anthropic make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Claude by Anthropic 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 Claude by Anthropic profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Claude by Anthropic looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.1 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Claude by Anthropic have?▴
Estimated audience: ~28.0M lifetime downloads, ~4.0M monthly active users, and ~1.8M 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 Claude by Anthropic?▴
Browse the full News 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 Claude by Anthropic built with?▴
Our heuristic places Claude by Anthropic on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Claude by Anthropic still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Claude by Anthropic sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 19× 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 Claude by Anthropic last updated?▴
Claude by Anthropic last shipped a new version on 2026-09-25 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Claude by Anthropic?▴
Claude by Anthropic is published by Anthropic PBC 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 Claude by Anthropic's BU Score?▴
Claude by Anthropic has a BU Score of 84/100 (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.