Google Docs
90
Quality Score
Transcendent
Google Docs
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This app dominates the collaborative document editing niche on iOS, directly competing with Microsoft Word and Apple Pages for users needing real-time co-authoring and multi-format compatibility. Its substantial user base, evidenced by millions of ratings and a high user satisfaction score, indicates deep market penetration and established traction, signaling a mature product in a sustained growth phase rather than early-stage development. Despite being a free offering, its nearly $19K monthly revenue suggests a strong indirect monetization strategy, likely through Google Workspace subscriptions driven by app usage. For productivity apps in this category, a common monetization observation is the conversion of free users to premium subscription tiers for advanced features, increased storage, or enterprise-level support, rather than direct in-app purchases for individual features.
BU Score 90 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$12.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.3M – $16.4M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$13.7M – $20.6M
per month
MEGA tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$13.9K/mo · 29.2M ratings · 4.1★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (311 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $500K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~3.8× return on build cost
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
233.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
70.0M
Daily active
31.5M
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$12.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$11.8M – $14.4M
12 months
$12.3M – $16.4M
24 months
$13.7M – $20.6M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 63/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.2
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
7.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Strong — $4.8M - $24.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 3,119,566 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 32-48× monthly = $384.0M-$576.0M.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (3,119,566 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (67 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v1.2026.26104
* Security improvements, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Google Docs
- Developer
- Bundle ID
- com.google.Docs
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, AM, AR, HY, AZ, EU, BE, BN, BG, KM, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, GL, KA, DE, EL, GU, HE, HI, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, KN, KK, KO, LO, LV, LT, MS, ML, MR, MN, NE, NB, OR, FA, PL, PT, PA, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SI, SK, SL, ES, SW, SV, TA, TE, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI, ZU
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $18.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth3,137,285 ratings+20% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (31 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Create, edit, and collaborate on online documents with the Google Docs app.
Work together in real time
• Share documents with your team
• Edit, comment, and add action items in real time
Create anywhere, anytime—even offline
• Capture spontaneous ideas on the fly
• Get things done, even on the go, with offline mode
• Save time and add polish with easy-to-use templates
Edit and share multiple file types
• Open a variety of files, including Microsoft Word files, right in Google Docs
• Frictionless collaboration, no matter which application your teammates use… View full description on the official store →
Work together in real time
• Share documents with your team
• Edit, comment, and add action items in real time
Create anywhere, anytime—even offline
• Capture spontaneous ideas on the fly
• Get things done, even on the go, with offline mode
• Save time and add polish with easy-to-use templates
Edit and share multiple file types
• Open a variety of files, including Microsoft Word files, right in Google Docs
• Frictionless collaboration, no matter which application your teammates use… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 311 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.2026.26104🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AF, AM, AR, HY, AZ +62📂 Productivity💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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 →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2026.23105 → v1.2026.24102
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,274 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2026.22203 → v1.2026.23105
→ 30 days after: reviews +24,292 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2026.21100 → v1.2026.22203
→ 30 days after: reviews +31,567 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2026.20100 → v1.2026.21100
→ 30 days after: reviews +40,332 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2026.19100 → v1.2026.20100
→ 30 days after: reviews +42,165 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.2026.19100
→ 30 days after: rating +0.09★ · reviews +114,185 low · multiple changes
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.09★ · reviews +79,560 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.80 → 4.70 (improved 0.90★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.09★ · reviews +79,560 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$18.9K/mo · rating +0.88★ · reviews +2,999,119 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +211 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.19★ · reviews +187 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −1.20★ · reviews +156 low · multiple changes
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.57 (dropped 0.43★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.22★ · reviews +154 low · multiple changes
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.19★ · reviews +149 low · multiple changes
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.17★ · reviews +142 low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.69662★ | 115,339 | 4.69662★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.88723★ | 347,635 | 4.88723★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.70983★ | 301,991 | 4.70983★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.69294★ | 79,555 | 4.69294★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.71199★ | 174,512 | 4.71199★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.70999★ | 206,929 | 4.70999★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.7393★ | 149,529 | 4.7393★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.60473★ | 163,752 | 4.60473★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.79011★ | 3,137,285 | 4.79011★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Google Docs: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 3,119,566 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Google Docs make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Google Docs earns approximately $18K/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.
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Who makes Google Docs?▴
Google Docs 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 Google Docs's BU Score?▴
Google Docs has a BU Score of 90/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.