Shadowrocket
75
Quality Score
Strong
Shadowrocket
by Shadow Launch Technology Limited
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Shadowrocket is an iOS app from Shadow Launch Technology Limited in the News category, currently rated 4.5★ across 12,060 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a News app, that means healthy traction. 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
$17.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$17.9K – $37.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$22.2K – $66.6K
per month
MID tierFREE
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
192 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
12,060 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$17.3K
Snapshots tracked
192
since Mar 2024
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~8 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 (53 MB) | +$1K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙ 11.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$68K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.5× 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 |
| 📅 11.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
65K
Daily active
29K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 53 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-07 · 16 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 16 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$17.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$16.4K – $27.4K
12 months
$17.9K – $37.5K
24 months
$22.2K – $66.6K
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 · 43/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.2
Product Quality
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
5.2
Founder Strength
5.5
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $12K - $25K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.49★ across 12,060 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.55 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $311K-$554K. Portfolio play ($30K/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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (12,060 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v2.2.92
* feat(protocol): add Sudoku proxy protocol support and optimize data-path forwarding to reduce memory allocations and buffer copying
* feat(dns): support dedicated DNS routing for direct domains, DNS over TCP, DNSCrypt upstreams, and multiple servers in CNAME/Host rules… Full release notes →
* feat(dns): support dedicated DNS routing for direct domains, DNS over TCP, DNSCrypt upstreams, and multiple servers in CNAME/Host rules… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Shadowrocket
- Developer
- Shadow Launch Technology Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.liguangming.Shadowrocket
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- shadowlaunch.com
- Tagline
- Shadowrocket
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $17.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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
- Socials
- twitter twitter.com/ShadowrocketApp
- b%75gin.%61pp%40g%6d%61il.c%6fm
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth12,048 ratings+2601% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Rule based proxy utility client for iPhone/iPad.
- Capture all HTTP/HTTPS/TCP traffic from any applications on your device, and redirect to the proxy server.
- Record and display HTTP, HTTPS, DNS requests from your iOS devices.
- Configure rules using domain match, domain suffix, domain keyword, CIDR IP range, and/or GeoIP lookup.
- Measure traffic usage and network speed on WiFi, cellular, direct and proxy connections.
- Import rule files from URL or iCloud Drive.
- Block ads by domain, user agent rules.
- Local DNS Mapping.
- Work on cellular networks.
- Decrypt HTTPS traffic.… View full description on the official store →
- Capture all HTTP/HTTPS/TCP traffic from any applications on your device, and redirect to the proxy server.
- Record and display HTTP, HTTPS, DNS requests from your iOS devices.
- Configure rules using domain match, domain suffix, domain keyword, CIDR IP range, and/or GeoIP lookup.
- Measure traffic usage and network speed on WiFi, cellular, direct and proxy connections.
- Import rule files from URL or iCloud Drive.
- Block ads by domain, user agent rules.
- Local DNS Mapping.
- Work on cellular networks.
- Decrypt HTTPS traffic.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 53 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v2.2.92🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, ID, IT +9📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 — v2.2.90 → v2.2.92
→ 30 days after: reviews +70 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.2.80 → v2.2.90
→ 30 days after: reviews +438 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.12★ · reviews +198 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.36 → 4.60 (improved 1.24★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.12★ · reviews +198 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$29.2K/mo · rating +1.25★ · reviews +10,847 high confidence
2026-02
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.2.80
→ 30 days after: revenue +$53/mo · reviews +21 high confidence
2024-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +19 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$54/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +23 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$82/mo · rating +0.15★ · reviews +34 high confidence
2024-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.23★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2024-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.23★ · reviews +13 low · multiple changes
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2024-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 709 reviews across 7 markets● 33% positive · ● 54% neutral · ● 13% negative · Rating drift: -0.55★ (declining — recent 50: 3.94★ vs lifetime: 4.49★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇩🇪 DE
+0.60
🇬🇧 GB
+0.38
🇨🇦 CA
+0.18
🇺🇸 US
+0.12
🇦🇺 AU
+0.12
🇫🇷 FR
+0.10
🇮🇳 IN
+0.06
Top praise themes
please fix ×9 please add ×8 小火箭 使用方法 ×6 点击网站首页的 一键订阅 ×6 一键订阅 按钮导入节点 ×6 按钮导入节点 点击小火箭右上角的按钮连接全球高速节点 ×6 ping test ×6 vpn china ×6
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×12 after update ×8 waste money ×6 work after ×6 latest version ×5 didn work ×5 stopped working ×5 iphone pro ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 5% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.6%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — shadowlaunch.com
- Mail provider
- Mailgun (transactional)
- Tech stack
- Mailgun
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.48665★ | 12,066 | 4.48665★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.30323★ | 310 | 4.30323★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.58889★ | 90 | 4.58889★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.16948★ | 59 | 4.16948★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.38889★ | 756 | 4.38889★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.25948★ | 343 | 4.25948★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.09959★ | 251 | 4.09959★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.96774★ | 62 | 3.96774★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.47761★ | 67 | 3.47761★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Shadowrocket: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 12,060 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Shadowrocket make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Shadowrocket earns approximately $17K/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 Shadowrocket profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $17K, Shadowrocket looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 8 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Shadowrocket have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.0M lifetime downloads, ~65K monthly active users, and ~29K 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 Shadowrocket?▴
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What is Shadowrocket built with?▴
Our heuristic places Shadowrocket on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Shadowrocket still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 16 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Shadowrocket sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 18× 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.
When was Shadowrocket last updated?▴
Shadowrocket last shipped a new version on 2026-09-07 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Shadowrocket?▴
Shadowrocket is published by Shadow Launch Technology Limited 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 Shadowrocket's BU Score?▴
Shadowrocket has a BU Score of 75/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.