How much does CCleaner – Phone Cleaner make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CCleaner – Phone Cleaner earns approximately $700K/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 CCleaner – Phone Cleaner profitable?

With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $700K, CCleaner – Phone Cleaner 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 CCleaner – Phone Cleaner have?

Estimated audience: ~409.0M lifetime downloads, ~34.0M monthly active users, and ~6.1M 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 CCleaner – Phone Cleaner?

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What is CCleaner – Phone Cleaner built with?

Our heuristic places CCleaner – Phone Cleaner 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 CCleaner – Phone Cleaner still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 27 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would CCleaner – Phone Cleaner sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $25.0M (marketplace range $19.0M – $33.0M). Calculated as 36× 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 CCleaner – Phone Cleaner last updated?

CCleaner – Phone Cleaner last shipped a new version on 2026-09-02 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes CCleaner – Phone Cleaner?

CCleaner – Phone Cleaner is published by Piriform 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 CCleaner – Phone Cleaner's BU Score?

CCleaner – Phone Cleaner has a BU Score of 83/100 (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.

CCleaner – Phone Cleaner

Quality Score

Excellent

CCleaner – Phone Cleaner

Name: CCleaner – Phone Cleaner — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: CCleaner – Phone Cleaner revenue, CCleaner – Phone Cleaner app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Tools revenue, Android app revenue

by Piriform

High confidence

4.5 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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CCleaner – Phone Cleaner targets the Android device optimization niche, directly competing with other utility apps like Files by Google and various third-party "booster" or "cleaner" tools. Its substantial user rating and high volume of reviews indicate significant market traction, positioning it as a mature, established product rather than an early-stage venture. The app's free monetization model, typical for this category, suggests a focus on user acquisition and retention, likely leveraging brand recognition from its PC counterpart. For similar utility apps, a common monetization strategy involves offering a premium subscription for advanced features like real-time protection, ad removal, or deeper system diagnostics, often with tiered pricing. Another approach seen is integrating non-intrusive affiliate offers for related services, though direct in-app purchases for feature unlocks remain the most prevalent upgrade path.

BU Score 83 · 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

$700K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$741K – $1141K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$886K – $1645K

per month

BIG tier

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

5 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.5

Reviews

3,077,710 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$700K

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$155K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $115K – $210K

$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
⚙ Tools complexity ×0.90	$-5949
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)	+$29K
⚙ 12.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$73K

Total estimate $155K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$25.0M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $19.0M – $33.0M · 36× MRR multiple

💸 ~161× 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
📅 12.3y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Tools category multiple	-8%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 36× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

409.0M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

34.0M

Daily active

6.1M

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

📲 Tools engagement	~190 installs / rating
📅 12.3y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Tools D30 retention	22%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.18

DAU / MAU 18% 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	Tools
📦 Compact Android bundle	→ Native Kotlin

💀 Maintenance status

Active

Last shipped 2026-09-02 · 27 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

📅 27 days since last update

Active development

Verdict Active

🔬

How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

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

6 months

$690K – $933K

12 months

$741K – $1.1M

24 months

$886K – $1.6M

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 · 58/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

2.6

Product Quality

9.1

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

5.0

Defensibility

8.5

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 3,077,710 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.

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 6 of 6 triggers

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

High install base (3,077,710 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (12y old)METRIC		+$1,500
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
annoying adsREVIEW		−$1,100
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: CCleaner – Phone Cleaner
Developer: Piriform
Bundle ID: com.piriform.ccleaner
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Tools
Content rating: Not found
Languages: Not found

Company

Website: www.ccleaner.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: $700K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: $1.39 - $39.99 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.

🚀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

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App Specs

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🔖 v26.12.2🔄 updated 3w ago📂 Tools💰 Free📺 Ad-supported💎 IAP $1.39 - $39.99 per item🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

4 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

🔧

Shipped update — v26.12.2 → v26.12.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +8,534 high confidence

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.08.0 → v26.12.2

→ 30 days after: reviews +19,657 high confidence

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v26.06.0 → v26.08.0

→ 30 days after: reviews +15,326 high confidence

2026-05

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +15,326 high confidence

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📝 Description

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