51
BU Score
Solid
Root: Built for Community
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Root: Built for Community is an iOS app from Root Communications, Inc in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.1★ across 84 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 51 — Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking app, that means established niche player.
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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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| New app (10 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (84 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
Jan 26
Feb 26
Mar 26
⭐ 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 →💾 79 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v0.9.19🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2025 (0y old)
📝 About this app
Root is the platform for communities to connect, collaborate, and grow.
Whether you're leading a gaming guild, organizing a creative collective, or building an interest-based group, Root gives you the tools to bring people together and get things done.
On desktop, Root is your full-featured command center. On mobile, it’s the easiest way to stay in the loop—chatting, reacting, and coordinating from anywhere.
Why Root
Stay connected on the go—Keep conversations flowing and never miss a moment, even when you’re away from your desk.
Join voice and video calls— Talk face-to-face or drop into a channel when things go live, all from your phone.
Navigate and multitask with ease — Switch between communities, check who’s online, and filter notifications by friends, mentions, and more.
Designed for real communities—Structure your space with channels, roles, and permissions that reflect how your group works.
Unlock more on desktop—Use Root on desktop for integrated apps like docs, tasks, and apps.
Root for mobile gives you the essentials and keeps you connected today, with more on the way.
Whether you're leading a gaming guild, organizing a creative collective, or building an interest-based group, Root gives you the tools to bring people together and get things done.
On desktop, Root is your full-featured command center. On mobile, it’s the easiest way to stay in the loop—chatting, reacting, and coordinating from anywhere.
Why Root
Stay connected on the go—Keep conversations flowing and never miss a moment, even when you’re away from your desk.
Join voice and video calls— Talk face-to-face or drop into a channel when things go live, all from your phone.
Navigate and multitask with ease — Switch between communities, check who’s online, and filter notifications by friends, mentions, and more.
Designed for real communities—Structure your space with channels, roles, and permissions that reflect how your group works.
Unlock more on desktop—Use Root on desktop for integrated apps like docs, tasks, and apps.
Root for mobile gives you the essentials and keeps you connected today, with more on the way.
🆕 What's New · v0.9.19
Passkeys: Sign in faster and more securely with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode.
Recovery codes: Generate a one-time set of recovery codes so you can always get back into your account if you lose your device.
Reliability and polish across sign-in, account settings, password changes, and notifications.
Recovery codes: Generate a one-time set of recovery codes so you can always get back into your account if you lose your device.
Reliability and polish across sign-in, account settings, password changes, and notifications.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Root: Built for Community
- Developer
- Root Communications, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.rootapp.mobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- rootapp.com
- Tagline
- Not Just Chat
- Description
- Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $228/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://x.com/rootappofficial/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/therootapp/
- 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://rootapp.com/blog
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- linkedin · twitter
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://rootapp.com/support
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth84 ratings+546% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (21 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (10 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.
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