How much does Dropbox make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Dropbox earns approximately $1.5M/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 Dropbox profitable?

With estimated build cost $200K and monthly revenue $1.5M, Dropbox looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Dropbox have?

Estimated audience: ~122.0M lifetime downloads, ~7.3M monthly active users, and ~3.2M 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 Dropbox?

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What is Dropbox built with?

Our heuristic places Dropbox on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.

Is Dropbox still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Dropbox sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $59.0M (marketplace range $44.0M – $76.5M). Calculated as 39× 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 Dropbox last updated?

Dropbox last shipped a new version on 2026-06-30 — 3 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Dropbox is published by Dropbox, Inc. on the Google Play 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 Dropbox's BU Score?

Dropbox has a BU Score of 81/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Dropbox: Secure Cloud Storage

Quality Score

Excellent

Dropbox: Secure Cloud Storage

Name: Dropbox: Secure Cloud Storage — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Dropbox: Secure Cloud Storage revenue, Dropbox: Secure Cloud Storage app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Productivity revenue, Android app revenue

by Dropbox, Inc.

High confidence

4.4 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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This Productivity app targets users needing robust cloud storage and file management, competing directly with Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Box. Its substantial user rating, reflecting millions of reviews, indicates deep market penetration and a mature product with strong user retention. This isn't an early-stage app; it’s a dominant player with a well-established user base. Given its free monetization model, revenue generation primarily stems from premium subscription upgrades for increased storage and advanced features. In the cloud storage category, a common monetization path involves offering a compelling free tier to attract a massive user base, then converting a segment to paid subscriptions through tiered storage plans and business-focused features. The high volume of ratings suggests a successful funnel for this strategy, indicating significant revenue from these premium conversions.

BU Score 81 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$1.5M

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$1.6M – $2.4M

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$1.9M – $3.5M

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.4

Reviews

2,328,275 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$1.5M

Snapshots tracked

since Jul 2026

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$200K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $150K – $270K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in under a month 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
💎 In-app purchase plumbing	+$9K
⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10	+$5K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$35K
⚙ 16.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$98K

Total estimate $200K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$59.0M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $44.0M – $76.5M · 39× MRR multiple

💸 ~295× return on build cost

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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

💎 IAP / freemium model base	28× MRR
📅 16.4y proven track record	+20%
🏷 Productivity category multiple	+8%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 39× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

122.0M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

7.3M

Daily active

3.2M

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

📲 Productivity engagement	~75 installs / rating
📅 16.4y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Productivity D30 retention	30%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.45

DAU / MAU 45% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🤖

Native Android (Kotlin)

High confidence · 80%

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

🏷 Category context	Productivity
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Slowing

30%

Last shipped 2026-06-30 · 91 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

📅 3 months since last update

Slowing cadence

Verdict Slowing

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$1.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$1.5M – $2.0M

12 months

$1.6M – $2.4M

24 months

$1.9M – $3.5M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 60/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Revenue Strength

6.2

Product Quality

8.8

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

8.5

Operational Safety

10.0

Founder Strength

5.6

Monetization Maturity

4.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $600K - $3300K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.38★ across 2,328,275 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 For competitors: Strong subscription moat. Hard to outcompete on retention. Better angle: free alternative with one-time purchase, or feature parity for an underserved sub-niche.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $27.0M-$48.0M.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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 8 of 8 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

High install base (2,328,275 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
subscriptionREVIEW		+$2,500
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
securityREVIEW		+$1,800
Mature app (16y old)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
Good rating (4.4★)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Dropbox: Secure Cloud Storage
Developer: Dropbox, Inc.
Bundle ID: com.dropbox.android
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Productivity
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.dropbox.com
Tagline: Not found
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: $1.5M/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $5.99 - $299.99 per item

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.

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

Dropbox allows you to backup your most essential files to the cloud, where you may access them at any time and from any location! Over 700 million registered users and 600,000 teams rely on it. Simple to use, trustworthy, private, and secure!

Features:

• Automatically upload photos and pictures from your camera roll to cloud photo storage for easy photo sharing ready to send anywhere.

• Access any file in your account—even offline—and preview over 175 different file types with no special software required.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v480.2.2🔄 updated 3mo ago📂 Productivity💰 Free💎 IAP $5.99 - $299.99 per item🚀 Launched 2010 (16y old)

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Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Dropbox: Secure Cloud Storage: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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