BLK: Black Singles Dating App
84
Quality Score
Excellent
BLK: Black Singles Dating App
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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BLK: Black Singles Dating App is an iOS app from Affinity Apps, LLC in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.6★ across 542,505 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Social Networking app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$3.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.7M – $5.7M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.4M – $8.2M
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
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 ~3 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (265 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$1.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $700K – $1.3M · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~6.5× return on build cost
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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
48.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
12.0M
Daily active
6.6M
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.5M – $4.7M
12 months
$3.7M – $5.7M
24 months
$4.4M – $8.2M
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 · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
6.5
Product Quality
9.2
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
6.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.4M - $7.7M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.58★ across 542,505 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: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $63.0M-$112.0M.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (542,505 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v12.8.1
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BLK: Black Singles Dating App
- Developer
- Affinity Apps, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.affinityapps.blk
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Dating for Black Singles
- Description
- BLK is the #1 dating and lifestyle app for the Black community creating a warm, inviting, and supportive space where Black love is celebrated in all its forms.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $900.0K ($675.0K – $1.1M)AI low
- AI annual estimate
- $10.8M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $54.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#18 /100 🇨🇦#72 /100 🇬🇧#84 /100
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The iOS app "BLK: Black Singles Dating App" is estimated to have a monthly revenue of $900,000 as of April 2026. However, Sensor Tower reports from Q1 2024 indicated weekly revenue peaks for the app ranging from approximately $740,000 to $889,000, which would suggest a significantly higher monthly revenue if sustained.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, App Store (via snippet [5])
📈Ratings growth542,505 ratings+50% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇺🇸US#18 /100
🇨🇦CA#72 /100
🇬🇧GB#84 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#18 now · best #18 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀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
BLK
Look.Match.Chat.
BLK is the #1 Dating app made for Black Singles with a simple mission: To create an exclusive community where Black men and Black women can find meaningful connections with people who share similar likes and interests.
BLK is easy and fun to use:
• Simply scroll through a personalized list of profiles.
• If you're interested, slide the profile to the right to give the person a ‘Yeah’, or click the 'Heart' icon.
• If the feeling's mutual, then you're a match and can start chatting in our app right away.… View full description on the official store →
Look.Match.Chat.
BLK is the #1 Dating app made for Black Singles with a simple mission: To create an exclusive community where Black men and Black women can find meaningful connections with people who share similar likes and interests.
BLK is easy and fun to use:
• Simply scroll through a personalized list of profiles.
• If you're interested, slide the profile to the right to give the person a ‘Yeah’, or click the 'Heart' icon.
• If the feeling's mutual, then you're a match and can start chatting in our app right away.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 265 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v12.8.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, ES📂 Social Networking💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 →
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 4.50 (improved 2.75★)
2025-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #13Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
dating·#13🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for BLK: Black Singles Dating App: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 542,505 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does BLK make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, BLK earns approximately $54K/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 BLK?▴
BLK is published by Affinity Apps, LLC 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 BLK's BU Score?▴
BLK has a BU Score of 84/100 (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.