Wire • Secure Messenger
55
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Wire • Secure Messenger is an iOS app from Wire Swiss GmbH in the Business category, currently rated 3.1★ across 904 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Business 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
143 snapshots on record
Rating
3.1
Reviews
904 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
143
since Feb 2016
🤖Also on Android
$229/mo · 36K ratings · 3.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.0y 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 (123 MB) | +$29K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$39K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× build cost (under-water)
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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
58K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
12K
Daily active
3.7K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
4.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.07★ across 904 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($25K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (20 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (904 ratings)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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v4.26.1
Fix:
• The option to log in with SSO failed to work
• The option to log in with SSO failed to work
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Wire • Secure Messenger
- Developer
- Wire Swiss GmbH
- Bundle ID
- com.wearezeta.zclient.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, LT, PL, PT, RU, ZH, SL, ES, ZH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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 growth915 ratings+112% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter8 releases tracked
🚀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
Communicate and collaborate securely and easily. From anywhere. Always.
Wire is secured with end-to-end encryption and makes life easier.
Get everything done in one app.
• Simple to use and beautifully designed
• A single tool to make small teams and complex organizations more productive
• Security and privacy at the core
Wire offers a free version for friends and family.
Work securely, wherever you are
• Communicate and share information easily – call, chat, send pictures and files, audio and video messages – and be protected by the industry's most secure end-to-end encryption… View full description on the official store →
Wire is secured with end-to-end encryption and makes life easier.
Get everything done in one app.
• Simple to use and beautifully designed
• A single tool to make small teams and complex organizations more productive
• Security and privacy at the core
Wire offers a free version for friends and family.
Work securely, wherever you are
• Communicate and share information easily – call, chat, send pictures and files, audio and video messages – and be protected by the industry's most secure end-to-end encryption… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 123 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v4.26.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, ET +15📂 Business💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
22 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.24.0 → v4.26.1
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 4 of 4 updated
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.23.0 → v4.24.0
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.22.0 → v4.23.0
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.21.0 → v4.22.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.3K/mo high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.20.0 → v4.21.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.3K/mo high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.19.0 → v4.20.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v4.18.0 → v4.19.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.40 → 3.07 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.75 → 3.40 (improved 0.65★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.5K/mo · rating +0.65★ · reviews +239 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.5K/mo · rating +0.65★ · reviews +240 medium · co-occurring
2016-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$254/mo · reviews +12 high confidence
2016-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$216/mo · rating +0.05★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2016-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$436/mo · rating +0.18★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2016-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$245/mo · rating −0.12★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 3.71 (dropped 1.04★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$245/mo · rating −0.12★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2016-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.30 (dropped 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$264/mo · rating −1.04★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2016-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$264/mo · rating −1.04★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2016-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$264/mo · rating −1.04★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
4 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-09-08
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-09-08
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-09-08
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-08-06
2026-09-08
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.30612★ | 49 | 3.30612★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.31818★ | 22 | 3.31818★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.58025★ | 81 | 3.58025★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.45132★ | 760 | 3.45132★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.37069★ | 116 | 3.37069★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.31092★ | 119 | 3.31092★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.40323★ | 62 | 3.40323★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.37975★ | 79 | 3.37975★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.06761★ | 917 | 3.06761★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Wire • Secure Messenger: 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 medium confidence: 904 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Wire • Secure Messenger make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Wire • Secure Messenger earns approximately $5.0K/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.
Is Wire • Secure Messenger profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Wire • Secure Messenger looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Wire • Secure Messenger have?▴
Estimated audience: ~58K lifetime downloads, ~12K monthly active users, and ~3K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Wire • Secure Messenger?▴
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How much would Wire • Secure Messenger sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $45K – $75K). Calculated as 12× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
Who makes Wire • Secure Messenger?▴
Wire • Secure Messenger is published by Wire Swiss GmbH 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 Wire • Secure Messenger's BU Score?▴
Wire • Secure Messenger has a BU Score of 55/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.