79
BU Score
Strong
Marco Polo - Video Messenger
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Marco Polo - Video Messenger is an iOS app from Joya Communications in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.8★ across 2,148,109 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 79 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking 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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (2,148,109 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 →💾 225 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v0.1574.0🔄 updated 1d ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
📝 About this app
Marco Polo is the video chat app that brings you closer to the people who matter most without asking you to compromise on trust.
ONE VIDEO IS WORTH A THOUSAND TEXTS
Communicate face-to-face in a private, ad-free space with no interruptions or intrusions. This award-winning video chat app isn’t social media. There are no “likes” or comparisons, and there are no tricks to keep you on the app for longer than you wish.
SIMPLE, CONVENIENT, ANYTIME CONNECTION
Send a video. Get one back. Talk one-on-one or in groups. Continue the conversation on your own schedule.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO COMPROMISE ON TRUST
Our purpose? To help people feel close. To fulfill it, Marco Polo does things differently.
We monetize responsibly. The Marco Polo Plus subscription plan allows us to make money in a way that’s true to our purpose – no ads, no selling your data – while maintaining a free service for the majority of our community.
We hold ourselves accountable. Earning your trust is vital to our team, from the technology we create to the business decisions we make.
We measure our impact. Does our product deliver on our promise and our purpose? Does it make people happier? Research indicates yes, and we commit to conducting this research regularly to ensure we stay on track.
CHOOSE THE VERSION THAT FITS YOUR LIFE
Marco Polo is FREE, with:
Unlimited chats and groups
Emoji reactions and fun special effects
Sharecast, our newest feature. Send one video to everyone in your circle, and only you see reactions and replies. It’s the convenience of groups with no cross-conversations.
Marco Polo Plus offers premium features including:
1.5-3x speed control
Background listening
Custom and animated emojis
6 Plus Passes so you can share 2 months free with friends and family
Marco Polo Plus Family
Save with up to six memberships with one plan. Plus Family is not limited to members within one household.
- Payments are charged to the user's Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase.
- Subscriptions automatically renew unless the user cancels at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- The account is charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period.
- Users can manage and cancel subscriptions in their account settings on the App Store.
Terms of Service: https://www.marcopolo.me/terms/
ONE VIDEO IS WORTH A THOUSAND TEXTS
Communicate face-to-face in a private, ad-free space with no interruptions or intrusions. This award-winning video chat app isn’t social media. There are no “likes” or comparisons, and there are no tricks to keep you on the app for longer than you wish.
SIMPLE, CONVENIENT, ANYTIME CONNECTION
Send a video. Get one back. Talk one-on-one or in groups. Continue the conversation on your own schedule.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO COMPROMISE ON TRUST
Our purpose? To help people feel close. To fulfill it, Marco Polo does things differently.
We monetize responsibly. The Marco Polo Plus subscription plan allows us to make money in a way that’s true to our purpose – no ads, no selling your data – while maintaining a free service for the majority of our community.
We hold ourselves accountable. Earning your trust is vital to our team, from the technology we create to the business decisions we make.
We measure our impact. Does our product deliver on our promise and our purpose? Does it make people happier? Research indicates yes, and we commit to conducting this research regularly to ensure we stay on track.
CHOOSE THE VERSION THAT FITS YOUR LIFE
Marco Polo is FREE, with:
Unlimited chats and groups
Emoji reactions and fun special effects
Sharecast, our newest feature. Send one video to everyone in your circle, and only you see reactions and replies. It’s the convenience of groups with no cross-conversations.
Marco Polo Plus offers premium features including:
1.5-3x speed control
Background listening
Custom and animated emojis
6 Plus Passes so you can share 2 months free with friends and family
Marco Polo Plus Family
Save with up to six memberships with one plan. Plus Family is not limited to members within one household.
- Payments are charged to the user's Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase.
- Subscriptions automatically renew unless the user cancels at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- The account is charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period.
- Users can manage and cancel subscriptions in their account settings on the App Store.
Terms of Service: https://www.marcopolo.me/terms/
🆕 What's New · v0.1574.0
Marco Polo is updated weekly with new fun features and faster, more reliable experiences. This release includes general bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Marco Polo - Video Messenger
- Developer
- Joya Communications
- Bundle ID
- co.happybits.marcopolo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Home • Marco Polo
- Description
- Marco Polo: Helping you feel close
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $780.0K ($700.0K – $840.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $9.4M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $85.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#18 /100 🇨🇦#56 /100 🇬🇧#66 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/joya-communications
- 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://www.marcopolo.me/stories/
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- instagram · linkedin · tiktok
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://www.marcopolo.me/contact-us/
- About page
- https://www.marcopolo.me/our-story/
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Marco Polo - Video Messenger" by Joya Communications is estimated to generate between $700,000 and $840,000 in monthly revenue, with an average monthly estimate of $780,000. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of approximately $9.36 million. One source, Growjo, provides a higher annual revenue estimate of $29.9 million for Marco Polo.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Appfigures, Growjo, founder claims
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.94★ · 59.2% 5★ · 16.3% 1★
5★29 (59%)
4★6 (12%)
3★4 (8%)
2★2 (4%)
1★8 (16%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×16 great ×11 best ×6 recommend ×4 amazing ×4Complaints: hate ×1 terrible ×1 overpriced ×1 refund ×1 subscription ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ AMAZING!
Marco Polo is amazing! I have multiple friends with Samsung so video quality on Messages is not great. Marco Polo gives me the opportunity to still stay connected with those friends. When I don’t wanna FaceTime someone and just say somethin…
★★★★★ Love this app - one complaint
Mostly I love this app and use it often. I wish the little tiles at the bottom wouldn’t always show a random moment from the polo, it ends up with this line of ridiculous looking faces. It would be great if it grabbed the first image or las…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Money
I thought this was a free app.…
★☆☆☆☆ No edit sucks
I loathe this app…
📈Ratings growth2,148,109 ratings+26% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (36 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
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇺🇸US#18 /100
🇨🇦CA#56 /100
🇬🇧GB#66 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#18 now · best #17 · 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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