How many users does Carrier Services have?

Estimated audience: ~131.0M lifetime downloads, ~21.0M monthly active users, and ~12.5M 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 Carrier Services?

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What is Carrier Services built with?

Our heuristic places Carrier Services 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 Carrier Services still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Carrier Services last updated?

Carrier Services last shipped a new version on 2025-10-16 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Carrier Services?

Carrier Services 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 Carrier Services's BU Score?

Carrier Services has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.

Carrier Services

Quality Score

Strong

Carrier Services

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

by Google LLC

High confidence

4.2 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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This Google LLC app operates in a critical, low-visibility niche, providing foundational RCS messaging support for the Messages app. Its direct competitors are effectively non-existent, given its deep integration into the Android ecosystem and Google’s control over the core messaging experience. The substantial rating count, nearing two million, combined with a solid average rating, indicates massive user adoption and a mature, essential utility for Android users. As a free app with no direct monetization, its value is in enabling a core platform feature, not generating revenue itself. For the broader Communication category, while many apps monetize through subscriptions for premium features or ad placements, an app like this, serving as infrastructure, demonstrates a different value proposition: enhancing the overall platform experience to retain users within the Google ecosystem, rather than direct per-user revenue.

BU Score 79 · Strong — healthy traction. 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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

6 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.2

Reviews

1,970,452 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

—

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

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BU Investment Matrix

Concerning · 47/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks

Revenue Strength

0.0

Product Quality

8.5

Market Position

0.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

7.4

Operational Safety

9.0

Founder Strength

6.8

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Pre-revenue or unknown — $0 - $0/mo · BIG tier · high confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.24★ across 1,970,452 reviews — strong (top 10%).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 365d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ 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 5 of 5 triggers

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

High install base (1,970,452 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Mature app (9y old)METRIC		+$1,500
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
Good rating (4.2★)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: Carrier Services
Developer: Google LLC
Bundle ID: com.google.android.ims
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Communication
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: Not found
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: $46/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

Carrier Services provides services to support RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging in Google’s Messages app. It collects diagnostic and crash data to ensure these services operate smoothly.

Please see the Google Play store entry for Google’s Messages app for more information on Carrier Services’ data collection and sharing practices in support of RCS messaging.

App Specs

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🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Communication💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

2 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 →

2026-07

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Refreshed store screenshots — 4 of 4 updated

→ 30 days after: reviews +8,934 high confidence

2026-05

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +10,567 high confidence

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Store Page History

4 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

2026-07-12

Slot 2
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-07-12

Slot 3
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-07-12

Slot 4
2 ver.

2026-05-06

Now

2026-07-12

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$185K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $140K – $250K

$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
⚙ Communication complexity ×1.65	+$32K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$45K
⚙ 9.6y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$57K

Total estimate $185K

👥 Estimated audience size

131.0M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

21.0M

Daily active

12.5M

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

📲 Communication engagement	~95 installs / rating
📅 9.6y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Communication D30 retention	30%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.60

DAU / MAU 60% 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	Communication
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

At risk

50%

Last shipped 2025-10-16 · 365 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

📅 12 months since last update

Concerning gap

Verdict At risk

📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

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

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