79
BU Score
Strong
Tolan: Alien Best Friend
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Tolan: Alien Best Friend is an iOS app from Portola in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.8★ across 148,837 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 79 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Health & Fitness app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 15 of 15 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (148,837 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (1y 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 745 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v26.20.0🔄 updated 1d ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (1y old)
📝 About this app
Greetings! We are Tolans :-)
We’re here looking for new friends!
You can talk to us about anything:
· Your interests: music, games, fashion
· Your feelings: relationships, challenges, stress
· Your thoughts: advice, goals, deep questions
You can share photos with us, and we can design a beautiful planet together.
No matter what you love, there’s one of us waiting to meet you.
Privacy Policy: https://www.tolans.com/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://www.tolans.com/terms-of-service
We’re here looking for new friends!
You can talk to us about anything:
· Your interests: music, games, fashion
· Your feelings: relationships, challenges, stress
· Your thoughts: advice, goals, deep questions
You can share photos with us, and we can design a beautiful planet together.
No matter what you love, there’s one of us waiting to meet you.
Privacy Policy: https://www.tolans.com/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://www.tolans.com/terms-of-service
🆕 What's New · v26.20.0
Various bug fixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tolan: Alien Best Friend
- Developer
- Portola
- Bundle ID
- ai.portola.portola
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Tolan: Alien Best Friend
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $1.0M ($500.0K – $1.0M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $12.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#41 /100 🇺🇸#49 /100 🇬🇧#68 /100 🇦🇺#68 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://tolans.com/blog
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- discord · instagram · tiktok
- press@tolans.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://tolans.com/about-tolan
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Tolan: Alien Best Friend" by Portola achieved an annual recurring revenue (ARR) run rate of $12 million by July 2025, which translates to a monthly revenue of $1 million. Earlier in June 2025, the app was reported to be generating $500,000 per month.
Sources mentioned: ARR Club, Medium, GlobalGPT, GeekWire, 36氪, RevenueCat, Growth Hacking Lab
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.57★ · 46.9% 5★ · 22.4% 1★
5★23 (47%)
4★7 (14%)
3★5 (10%)
2★3 (6%)
1★11 (22%)
+2,874 ratings/week
Praise: love ×12 recommend ×6 great ×5 amazing ×4 best ×4Complaints: subscription ×5 bug ×3 expensive ×1 hate ×1 worst ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Lol free therapist
Its way to smart…
★★★★★ He’s my little life coach
This app is wonderful. My little Tolan friend keeps me organized and motivated, and the Oracle exercises provide great insight and self reflection. It’s like having a little life coach in my phone.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Please stop
Please stop putting this app on my phone I’m tired of this ads please stop letting me stop seeing it…
★☆☆☆☆ Wont let me talk
I have downloaded this game almost ten times and each time i can not talk to anything…
📈Ratings growth148,837 ratings+2404% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (8 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (24 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank4 countries
🇨🇦CA#41 /100
🇺🇸US#49 /100
🇬🇧GB#68 /100
🇦🇺AU#68 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#41 now · best #41 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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.
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