Microsoft OneDrive
85
Quality Score
Excellent
Microsoft OneDrive
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Microsoft OneDrive targets users needing cloud storage and file synchronization, competing directly with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Amazon Drive. Its strong rating across millions of reviews indicates significant user trust and a mature product with established market penetration, signaling a late-growth to mature stage. The app’s free monetization model, typical for this category, focuses on user acquisition and ecosystem integration, leveraging the initial free storage to upsell into Microsoft 365 subscriptions. This common upgrade path from free tier to paid subscription, often bundled with other productivity tools, is the primary revenue driver, rather than standalone in-app purchases or ads. The strategy prioritizes long-term customer value through ecosystem lock-in over per-download revenue.
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.
💰 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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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🍎Also on iOS
$3.4K/mo · 485K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~12 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 |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$35K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $375K · 35× MRR multiple
💸
~3.0× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
35× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
532.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
159.5M
Daily active
71.5M
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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 · 66/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.2
Product Quality
9.2
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
4.0
Defensibility
10.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $600K - $3300K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 7,101,634 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: 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
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (7,101,634 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Developer
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bundle ID
- com.microsoft.skydrive
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- aka.ms
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $129.99 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.
📈Ratings growth7,101,634 ratings+-1% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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
Start with 5 GB of free storage, or upgrade to Microsoft 365 Personal or Family for 1 TB per user. Access your files anywhere—even offline.
Back Up Photos & Videos
• Turn on Camera Upload for automatic photo and video backup
• Secure photo locker with automatic tagging
• View and share photos across devices
• Keep photos and videos safe with encrypted storage
File sharing and access
• Secure photo storage for all your photos, videos & albums
• Share files, photos, videos & albums with friends & family
• Access selected files offline
• Share photos & upload videos easily… View full description on the official store →
Back Up Photos & Videos
• Turn on Camera Upload for automatic photo and video backup
• Secure photo locker with automatic tagging
• View and share photos across devices
• Keep photos and videos safe with encrypted storage
File sharing and access
• Secure photo storage for all your photos, videos & albums
• Share files, photos, videos & albums with friends & family
• Access selected files offline
• Share photos & upload videos easily… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Productivity💰 Free💎 IAP $0.99 - $129.99 per item
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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 →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — vVaries with device → vVaries with device
→ 30 days after: reviews +75,253 high confidence
2026-05
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +75,253 high confidence
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Microsoft OneDrive: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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Why high confidence: 7,101,634 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Microsoft OneDrive make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Microsoft OneDrive earns approximately $8.2K/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.
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Who makes Microsoft OneDrive?▴
Microsoft OneDrive is published by Microsoft Corporation 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 Microsoft OneDrive's BU Score?▴
Microsoft OneDrive 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.