How much does AirPort Utility make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, AirPort Utility earns approximately $289/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 AirPort Utility?

AirPort Utility is published by Apple on the Apple App 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 AirPort Utility's BU Score?

AirPort Utility has a BU Score of 47/100 (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.

AirPort Utility

Quality Score

Emerging

AirPort Utility

Name: AirPort Utility — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: AirPort Utility revenue, AirPort Utility app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

Medium confidence

3.0 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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AirPort Utility is an iOS app from Apple in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.0★ across 2,010 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities 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

$600K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$635K – $978K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$759K – $1410K

per month

BIG tierFREE

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$45K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $35K – $60K

$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
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-7575

Total estimate $45K

👥 Estimated audience size

400K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

80K

Daily active

16K

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

📲 Utilities engagement	~200 installs / rating
🔁 Utilities D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

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

6 months

$591K – $800K

12 months

$635K – $978K

24 months

$759K – $1.4M

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.

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BU Investment Matrix

Concerning · 41/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarks

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.9

Product Quality

5.0

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

0.5

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

0.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.05★ across 2,010 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2425d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, dormant (2425d since update).

🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $7.2M-$13.2M. Discount applied for operational risk..

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:

bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
Low install base (2,010 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (14y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (33 languages)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.

🆕 What's New · v1.3.6

This update includes general stability and security improvements

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: AirPort Utility
Developer: Apple
Bundle ID: com.apple.airport.mobileairportutility
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 4+
Languages: AR, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Apple
Description: Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Available

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $290/mo
Top-grossing rank: Outside top 100 in US Utilities
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

Socials: Not found
Email: Not found
Phone: 1-800-692-7753
Contact page: apple.com/us/shop/goto/help
About page: Not found

📈Ratings growth2,010 ratings+354% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked

This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.

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

Use AirPort Utility to manage your Wi-Fi network and AirPort base stations, including AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule — right from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. See a graphical overview of your Wi-Fi network and devices. Change base station and network settings, or manage advanced features such as security modes, wireless channels, IPv6 configuration, and more.

AirPort Utility works with all Apple 802.11n and 802.11ac Wi-Fi base stations, including AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule.

Features… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 12 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.3.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, CA, HR, CS, DA +28📂 Utilities💰 Free

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

10 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 →

2026-05

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-05

🔄

Monetization changed: freemium → free

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.02 → 2.80 (improved 0.78★)

2026-01

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2017-06

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2016-06

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2015-11

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2015-10

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.80 → 2.17 (improved 0.37★)

2015-09

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)

2015-08

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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Voice of Customer

Based on 817 reviews across 9 markets

● 36% positive · ● 31% neutral · ● 33% negative · Rating drift: -0.29★ (declining — recent 50: 2.76★ vs lifetime: 3.05★)

VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.

Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)

🇮🇳 IN

+0.32

🇬🇧 GB

+0.14

🇺🇸 US

+0.08

🇧🇷 BR

+0.06

🇦🇺 AU

+0.04

🇨🇦 CA

-0.01

🇫🇷 FR

-0.01

🇯🇵 JP

-0.02

🇩🇪 DE

-0.43

Top praise themes

wifi scanner ×11 signal strength ×9 please update ×8 wifi signal ×6 iphone support ×6 base stations ×5 mise jour ×5 scanner feature ×4

Top complaint themes

crashes ios ×37 enter password ×32 base station ×25 please fix ×23 ios crashes ×23 entering password ×22 ios update ×21 doesn work ×18

Risk signals

Bug mentions: 26%

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	3.12687★	134	3.12687★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	2.68208★	173	2.68208★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	2.8549★	255	2.8549★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	2.83014★	418	2.83014★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	2.98068★	207	2.98068★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	2.84252★	254	2.84252★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.31034★	58	4.31034★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	3.35974★	303	3.35974★ this version
🇺🇸 US	3.04978★	2,009	3.04978★ this version

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📝 Description

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