87
BU Score
Excellent
Signal - Private Messenger
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Signal - Private Messenger is an iOS app from Signal Messenger, LLC in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.7★ across 1,034,760 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 87 — Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Social Networking app, that means strong product-market fit.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,034,760 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (44 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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.
💚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 →💾 190 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v8.10🔄 updated 6d ago🌐 AR, BE, BN, BG, CA +39📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
📝 About this app
Signal is a messaging app with privacy at its core. It is free and easy to use, with strong end-to-end encryption that keeps your communication completely private.
• Send texts, voice messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and files for free. Signal uses your phone’s data connection, so you avoid SMS and MMS fees.
• Call your friends with crystal-clear encrypted voice and video calls. Group calls supported for up to 50 people.
• Stay connected with group chats up to 1,000 people. Control who can post and manage group members with admin permission settings.
• Share image, text, and video Stories that disappear after 24 hours. Privacy settings keep you in charge of exactly who can see each Story.
• Signal is built for your privacy. We know nothing about you or who you’re talking to. Our open source Signal Protocol means that we can’t read your messages or listen to your calls. Neither can anyone else. No back doors, no data collection, no compromises.
• Signal is independent and not for profit; a different kind of tech from a different kind of organization. As a 501c3 nonprofit we are supported by your donations, not by advertisers or investors.
• For support, questions, or more information please visit https://support.signal.org/
To check out our source code, visit https://github.com/signalapp
Follow us on Twitter @signalapp and Instagram @signal_app
• Send texts, voice messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and files for free. Signal uses your phone’s data connection, so you avoid SMS and MMS fees.
• Call your friends with crystal-clear encrypted voice and video calls. Group calls supported for up to 50 people.
• Stay connected with group chats up to 1,000 people. Control who can post and manage group members with admin permission settings.
• Share image, text, and video Stories that disappear after 24 hours. Privacy settings keep you in charge of exactly who can see each Story.
• Signal is built for your privacy. We know nothing about you or who you’re talking to. Our open source Signal Protocol means that we can’t read your messages or listen to your calls. Neither can anyone else. No back doors, no data collection, no compromises.
• Signal is independent and not for profit; a different kind of tech from a different kind of organization. As a 501c3 nonprofit we are supported by your donations, not by advertisers or investors.
• For support, questions, or more information please visit https://support.signal.org/
To check out our source code, visit https://github.com/signalapp
Follow us on Twitter @signalapp and Instagram @signal_app
🆕 What's New · v8.10
• Say hello (or “Здравейте” and “Sveiki”) to expanded localization support for Bulgarian and Lithuanian.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Signal - Private Messenger
- Developer
- Signal Messenger, LLC
- Bundle ID
- org.whispersystems.signal
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, BE, BN, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, GU, HE, HI, HU, ID, GA, IT, JA, KO, LT, MS, MR, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UG, UK, UR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Speak Freely
- Description
- Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $70.0KAI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $840.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $18.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#55 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://x.com/signalapp
- Not found
- GitHub
- https://github.com/signalapp
- 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://signal.org/blog/
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Signal - Private Messenger" is estimated to generate approximately $70,000 in monthly revenue, primarily through its 'Signal Secure Backups' in-app purchase. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of $840,000. Signal Messenger, LLC operates as a non-profit organization, with its overall funding largely supported by donations and grants, rather than solely through app revenue.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Reddit, Apple App Store, ElectroIQ, Prospeo
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.12★ · 71.4% 5★ · 16.3% 1★
5★35 (71%)
4★2 (4%)
3★3 (6%)
2★1 (2%)
1★8 (16%)
+2,375 ratings/week
Praise: great ×7 best ×7 love ×5 perfect ×2 recommend ×1Complaints: scam ×3 hate ×2 bug ×1 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ tapadito
me gusta estar en esta aplicación…
★★★★★ Great app
I’m loyal user and supporter of the app. Hopefully it will stay that way as it was and it is and respect privacy unlike other Mesengers, WhatsApp’s etc.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Audio routing is trash
If you ever switch audio routes there is a high chance it will bug and neither participant will be able to hear the other.…
★☆☆☆☆ Awful
I asked for the verification code it won’t send it on the app. So I can’t go any further. You need to fix it quick…
📈Ratings growth1,035,084 ratings+42% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (13 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
📊Category Rank Trajectory#55 now · best #52 · 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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