How many users does Google Docs have?

Estimated audience: ~148.0M lifetime downloads, ~16.5M monthly active users, and ~7.4M 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.

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What is Google Docs built with?

Our heuristic places Google Docs 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 Google Docs still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Google Docs last updated?

Google Docs last shipped a new version on 2026-09-08 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Google Docs?

Google Docs is published by Google LLC 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 Google Docs's BU Score?

Google Docs has a BU Score of 85/100 (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.

Google Docs

Quality Score

Excellent

Google Docs

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

by Google LLC

High confidence

4.7 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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This productivity app targets users needing on-the-go document creation and real-time collaboration, directly competing with Microsoft Word Mobile and WPS Office. Its substantial user rating, backed by millions of reviews, signals mature, widespread adoption and strong user satisfaction within its niche. This isn't an early-stage app; it’s a dominant player with established traction. As a free offering, its revenue model is indirect, likely contributing to the broader Google ecosystem through data and ad targeting, rather than direct in-app purchases or subscriptions. For productivity apps in this category, a common monetization observation is the "freemium" model, where the core functionality is free, but advanced features, increased storage, or enterprise-level administration tools are gated behind a subscription. Google Docs, however, leverages its platform integration to drive value, making direct monetization less critical for this specific app.

BU Score 85 · 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.

💰 Forecast monthly revenue

—/mo

Founder-confirmed monthly revenue

BIG tier

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

5 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.7

Reviews

2,825,063 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

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Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

🍎Also on iOS

Google Docs

$18.9K/mo · 3.3M ratings · 4.8★

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BU Investment Matrix

Concerning · 50/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.8

Product Quality

9.5

Revenue Strength

0.0

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Pre-revenue or unknown — $0 - $0/mo · BIG tier · high confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 2,825,063 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 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: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: No verified revenue — acquisition only makes sense for tech / userbase / brand.

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 (2,825,063 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC		+$2,200
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
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: Google Docs
Developer: Google LLC
Bundle ID: com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Productivity
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: support.google.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: $189/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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.

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

Create, edit, and collaborate with others on documents from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Docs app. 

Work together in real time

• Share documents with your team

• Edit, comment, and add action items in real time

Create anywhere, anytime—even offline

• Capture spontaneous ideas on the fly

• Get things done, even on the go, with offline mode

• Save time and add polish with easy-to-use templates

Edit and share multiple file types

• Open a variety of files, including Microsoft Word files, right in Google Docs… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →

🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Productivity💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

6 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device

→ 30 days after: reviews +98,252 high confidence

2026-08

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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device

→ 30 days after: reviews +202,372 high confidence

2026-07

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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device

→ 30 days after: reviews +227,246 high confidence

2026-06

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Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated

→ 30 days after: reviews +123,126 medium · co-occurring

2026-06

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Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device

→ 30 days after: reviews +227,752 low · multiple changes

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +104,626 high confidence

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Store Page History

8 SCREENSHOT CHANGES

Every time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.

iPhone screenshots

Slot 1
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-06-12

Slot 2
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-06-12

Slot 3
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-06-12

Slot 4
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-06-12

Slot 5
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-06-12

Slot 6
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-06-12

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$160K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $120K – $215K

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

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
⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10	+$5K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$30K
⚙ 12.4y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$74K

Total estimate $160K

👥 Estimated audience size

148.0M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

16.5M

Daily active

7.4M

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
📅 12.4y 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

Active

Last shipped 2026-09-08 · 30 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

📅 30 days since last update

Active development

Verdict Active

📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

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

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