55
Quality Score
Solid
MeshCore
✍️ bumetric analysis
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MeshCore is an iOS app from Liam Cottle in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.5★ across 75 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking app, 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tierFREE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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since first record
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$35K |
| ⚙1.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$7K |
Total estimate$95K
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 47 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-20 · 3 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 32/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
2.1
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.8
Operational Safety
6.1
Founder Strength
3.6
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.53★ across 75 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.69 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $9K-$16K.
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:
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (75 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| 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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 47 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.44.0🔄 updated 3d ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2025 (1y old)
📝 About this app
The Official MeshCore Companion App!
Communicate without the internet!
MeshCore is a simple, secure, off-grid mesh communications system.
Build your own low-cost, long-range, encrypted messaging network.
You can still send messages even when WiFi, Cellular, and Starlink are down.
To use this app, you must have a supported LoRa radio device, that has been flashed with the MeshCore Companion Firmware.
Once you've installed the app, you will need to:
- Pair with your MeshCore device using Bluetooth.
- Set a custom display name.
- and, Configure your LoRa radio settings.… View full description on the official store →
Communicate without the internet!
MeshCore is a simple, secure, off-grid mesh communications system.
Build your own low-cost, long-range, encrypted messaging network.
You can still send messages even when WiFi, Cellular, and Starlink are down.
To use this app, you must have a supported LoRa radio device, that has been flashed with the MeshCore Companion Firmware.
Once you've installed the app, you will need to:
- Pair with your MeshCore device using Bluetooth.
- Set a custom display name.
- and, Configure your LoRa radio settings.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.44.0
- added checkbox to allow auto reconnect on wifi connections
- added ability to send unscoped channel messages when default scope configured (firmware v1.16.0+)
- added auto link support in chat messages for latitude,longitude with at least 3 decimals… Full release notes →
- added ability to send unscoped channel messages when default scope configured (firmware v1.16.0+)
- added auto link support in chat messages for latitude,longitude with at least 3 decimals… Full release notes →
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.41 (dropped 0.39★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.44 → 4.80 (improved 0.36★)
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2025-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 51 reviews across 4 markets● 63% positive · ● 12% neutral · ● 26% negative · Rating drift: -0.69★ (declining — recent 50: 3.84★ vs lifetime: 4.53★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇨🇦 CA
+0.89
🇺🇸 US
+0.47
🇬🇧 GB
+0.14
🇩🇪 DE
+0.14
Top praise themes
meshtastic ×12 works ×10 see ×7 als ×7 mesh ×6 bluetooth ×6 having ×5 repeater ×5
Top complaint themes
device ×10 connection ×6 bluetooth ×6 constantly ×5 connect ×4 companion ×4 ios ×4 works ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 6%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — meshcore.io
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Mailgun
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.53333★ | 75 | 4.53333★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.0303★ | 33 | 4.0303★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.62162★ | 37 | 4.62162★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 13 | 5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MeshCore
- Developer
- Liam Cottle
- Bundle ID
- com.liamcottle.meshcore.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- meshcore.io
- Tagline
- MeshCore - Official Site
- Description
- Off-Grid, Encrypted, Mesh Communications
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/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
- x.com/mesh_core
- Not found
- GitHub
- github.com/meshcore-dev/meshcore
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews21 latest · avg 4.29★ · 61.9% 5★ · 4.8% 1★
5★13 (62%)
4★4 (19%)
3★2 (10%)
2★1 (5%)
1★1 (5%)
+2 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 amazing ×3 best ×2 love ×1 excellent ×1Complaints: bug ×2 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ A breath of fresh air
I know this project is very early still, but it's a breath of fresh air and works very well! I can't wait to see the project continue to grow.…
★★★★★ Nicely done
This is a great program to build a private network. Very easy to setup some nodes and communicate.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Low quality UI
Lots of defects and issues:
- losing connection to companion, have to constantly restart app
- different screen and UI to manage companion and reporter
- blocks important functionally under wait timer, forces to pay money…
★★☆☆☆ Amazing project, terrible bug!
First of all, let me say that I’m a huge fan of MeshCore and am extremely excited about the momentum behind this project. The iOS companion app is very cool and when it works, it works extremely well.
Unfortunately there is a fatal flaw t…
📈Ratings growth75 ratings+7400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (19 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (13 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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