
71
BU Score
Strong
Nextplus: Private Phone Number
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Nextplus: Private Phone Number is an iOS app from textPlus, Inc. in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.6★ across 90,141 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 71 — 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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (90,141 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| 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 →💾 194 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v3.6.0🔄 updated 4w ago🌐 EN, FR, ES📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
📝 About this app
Nextplus lets you stay in touch with people around the world without giving out your real number. With Nextplus you'll get:
- A free US Phone number so friends can call & text you (you pick the area code)
- Free texting (SMS, MMS + group chat) to any US or Canadian mobile number
- Free inbound phone calls
- Toll-free calling from anywhere in the world with no restrictions!
- Inexpensive outbound phone calls
- Works great over WiFi so you don’t even need a 3G/4G connection.
- No contracts, no “surprise” costs.
- Turn your iPod touch into a phone!
HOW IT WORKS
Unlike other app-to-app messengers, we let you call and text ANY phone number!
Nextplus works across all your devices so you'll never miss a message. All you need is WiFi - no 3G/4G connection required!
Your friend’s phone company charges us small fees to deliver texts and calls on their networks. Rather than force you to pay, we let you view a few banner ads or watch a quick video. If you choose, you can pay a buck or two and make those ads disappear. The choice is yours!
IN APP SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
- Keep Your Number for 1 year $1.99 / Remove Banner Ads for 1 month $0.99 / Remove Banner Ads for 1 year $5.99 / Unlimited Ad-Free calls to Mexico (landlines) for 1 month $6.99 / Unlimited Ad-Free Calls to Mexico (mobile) for 1 month $29.99/ Unlimited Ad-Free calls to US & Canada for 1 year $19.99
- If you choose to subscribe to a plan, you will be charged a price according to the plan selected in your country. The price will be shown in the app before you complete the payment.
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, at the purchase price listed above
- You may manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your iTunes Account Settings and then "Manage Subscriptions"
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription
* IMPORTANT:
- We do not support 911 in the US
- In order to place most outbound phone calls you will need to purchase credits within the App
- If push notifications are not enabled, you may not receive messages and calls
Terms of Use: https://textplus.com/textplus-terms-of-use/
Privacy Policy: https://textplus.com/textplus-privacy-policy/
Subscription Products:
• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication
- A free US Phone number so friends can call & text you (you pick the area code)
- Free texting (SMS, MMS + group chat) to any US or Canadian mobile number
- Free inbound phone calls
- Toll-free calling from anywhere in the world with no restrictions!
- Inexpensive outbound phone calls
- Works great over WiFi so you don’t even need a 3G/4G connection.
- No contracts, no “surprise” costs.
- Turn your iPod touch into a phone!
HOW IT WORKS
Unlike other app-to-app messengers, we let you call and text ANY phone number!
Nextplus works across all your devices so you'll never miss a message. All you need is WiFi - no 3G/4G connection required!
Your friend’s phone company charges us small fees to deliver texts and calls on their networks. Rather than force you to pay, we let you view a few banner ads or watch a quick video. If you choose, you can pay a buck or two and make those ads disappear. The choice is yours!
IN APP SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
- Keep Your Number for 1 year $1.99 / Remove Banner Ads for 1 month $0.99 / Remove Banner Ads for 1 year $5.99 / Unlimited Ad-Free calls to Mexico (landlines) for 1 month $6.99 / Unlimited Ad-Free Calls to Mexico (mobile) for 1 month $29.99/ Unlimited Ad-Free calls to US & Canada for 1 year $19.99
- If you choose to subscribe to a plan, you will be charged a price according to the plan selected in your country. The price will be shown in the app before you complete the payment.
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, at the purchase price listed above
- You may manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your iTunes Account Settings and then "Manage Subscriptions"
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription
* IMPORTANT:
- We do not support 911 in the US
- In order to place most outbound phone calls you will need to purchase credits within the App
- If push notifications are not enabled, you may not receive messages and calls
Terms of Use: https://textplus.com/textplus-terms-of-use/
Privacy Policy: https://textplus.com/textplus-privacy-policy/
Subscription Products:
• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication
🆕 What's New · v3.6.0
- Notifications now include media previews. This can be disabled in settings
- Fixed an issue which prevented Canada users from getting a Canadian phone number.
- Fixed an issue which prevented Canada users from getting a Canadian phone number.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Nextplus: Private Phone Number
- Developer
- textPlus, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- me.nextplus.smsfreetext.phonecalls
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- A telco for the 21st century
- Description
- With textPlus for smartphones and tablets, get a FREE second phone number and start texting and calling today!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $40.0K ($30.0K – $50.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $480.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $144/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
- Not found
- Not found
- 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://textplus.com/blog
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- gethelp@textplus.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://textplus.com/about-us
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Nextplus: Private Phone Number" by textPlus, Inc. is estimated to generate approximately $40,000 in monthly revenue, based on recent public data. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of $480,000. The app offers various in-app purchases and subscriptions, including options to keep a number, remove ads, and make unlimited calls.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Apple App Store
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.51★ · 20.4% 5★ · 46.9% 1★
5★10 (20%)
4★7 (14%)
3★4 (8%)
2★5 (10%)
1★23 (47%)
+16 ratings/week
Praise: great ×3 love ×2 amazing ×2 best ×2 perfect ×1Complaints: scam ×2 bug ×2 subscription ×2 worst ×1 refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Wow
Fun…
★★★★★ To nextplus
Nextplus is good to make calls with but it doesn’t work after ringing like a 15 numbers you should fix that issue immediately…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Too many pop up notifications
I can’t even view my messages because of pop up notifications asking me to review the app…
★☆☆☆☆ Worst app ever
There is no free number…
📈Ratings growth90,141 ratings+61% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (48 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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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