How much does Advance SMS make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Advance SMS earns approximately $512/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 Advance SMS profitable?

With estimated build cost $200K and monthly revenue $512, Advance SMS looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Advance SMS have?

Estimated audience: ~100K lifetime downloads, ~12K monthly active users, and ~7K 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 Advance SMS?

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What is Advance SMS built with?

Our heuristic places Advance SMS 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 Advance SMS still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Advance SMS sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 16× 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 Advance SMS last updated?

Advance SMS last shipped a new version on 2026-02-25 — 7 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Advance SMS?

Advance SMS is published by Private SMS Box 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 Advance SMS's BU Score?

Advance SMS has a BU Score of 49/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Advance SMS

Quality Score

Emerging

Advance SMS

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

by Private SMS Box

Medium confidence

3.3 Google Play rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Advance SMS is an Android app from Private SMS Box in the Communication category, currently rated 3.3★ across 1,578 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 49: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Communication app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$512

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$448 – $1614

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$415 – $3734

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

3.3

Reviews

1,578 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$512

Snapshots tracked

since May 2026

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

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

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
⚙ 11.5y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$68K

Total estimate $200K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$10K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 16× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.1× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + 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

📺 Ad-supported base	15× MRR
📅 11.5y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak)	-18%
🏷 Communication category multiple	+5%

Final multiple 16× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

100K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

12K

Daily active

7.5K

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
📅 11.5y 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 2026-02-25 · 211 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

📅 7 months since last update

Concerning gap

Verdict At risk

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$512/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$436 – $1.0K

12 months

$448 – $1.6K

24 months

$415 – $3.7K

Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

📊

BU Investment Matrix

Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

3.7

Product Quality

6.0

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

6.0

Market Position

0.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $204 - $1280/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.31★ across 1,578 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: last update 207d ago — slow cadence.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K.

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 4 of 4 triggers

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

Low install base (1,578 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Below-average rating (3.3★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (11y old)METRIC		+$1,500
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: Advance SMS
Developer: Private SMS Box
Bundle ID: com.privatesmsbox.advancesms
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: $512/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

Upgrade your texting experience with AdvanceSMS — the intelligent, fast, simple and feature-rich SMS/MMS app designed to replace your stock Android messaging app.

Key features:

• Complete SMS and MMS support

• Effortless group messaging

• Lightweight with minimal resource usage

• Dual SIM support for flexibility

• Schedule messages for later delivery

• Smart reply suggestions for faster responses

• One-tap OTP copying for convenience

• Add a personal signature to every message

• Instant popup notifications for quick responses

• Mute notifications from specific contacts… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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🔖 v1.1.72🔄 updated 7mo ago📂 Communication💰 Free📺 Ad-supported🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)

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📝 Description

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Full revenue analysis

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