Burner: Second Phone Number
82
Quality Score
Excellent
Burner: Second Phone Number
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Burner: Second Phone Number is an iOS app from Ad Hoc Labs, Inc in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 92,292 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities 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
$31.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$32.7K – $68.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$40.4K – $121.3K
per month
MID 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 Android
$2.1K/mo · 81K ratings · 4.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 (191 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $600K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~6.7× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
18.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.6M
Daily active
720K
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 CONFIDENCEBaseline
$31.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$29.9K – $49.9K
12 months
$32.7K – $68.4K
24 months
$40.4K – $121K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.9
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $22K - $47K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 92,292 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 = $568K-$1.0M.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (92,292 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v7.8.0
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Burner: Second Phone Number
- Developer
- Ad Hoc Labs, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.adhoclabs.burner
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- burnerapp.com
- Tagline
- Your phone’s other number
- Description
- Use a temporary phone number and get a 7-day free phone number trial, now with unlimited calling and texting! Sign-up today!
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $1.0M ($500.0K – $1.2M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $12.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $31.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#4 /100 🇺🇸#9 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/burner
- linkedin.com/company/ad-hoc-labs
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Burner: Second Phone Number" is estimated to generate approximately $1 million in monthly revenue as of April 2026. Older estimates from September 2024 suggested a monthly revenue between $500,000 and $600,000.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Owler
📈Ratings growth92,292 ratings+38% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (30 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇨🇦CA#4 /100
🇺🇸US#9 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#4 now · best #4 · worst #56
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Burner gives you a second phone number for calling, texting, and keeping your personal number private. Create a number in seconds. Use it when you need it. Delete it when you don’t.
HOW BURNER WORKS
- Sign up and choose an area code
- Call and text from your second number (Wi-Fi or mobile data required)
- Delete your number anytime or create a new one
CALLING & TEXTING
Get a second phone number that works like your main one. Make calls and send texts without sharing your personal number.
KEEP YOUR NUMBER PRIVATE
Use different phone numbers for different parts of your life.… View full description on the official store →
HOW BURNER WORKS
- Sign up and choose an area code
- Call and text from your second number (Wi-Fi or mobile data required)
- Delete your number anytime or create a new one
CALLING & TEXTING
Get a second phone number that works like your main one. Make calls and send texts without sharing your personal number.
KEEP YOUR NUMBER PRIVATE
Use different phone numbers for different parts of your life.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 191 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17+🔖 v7.8.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 ↑ 1.98 → 4.70 (improved 2.72★)
2025-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.88 → 2.22 (improved 0.34★)
2025-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
2025-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #43Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
messaging·#43🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — burnerapp.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 3 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.65896★ | 173 | 3.65896★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.4905★ | 5,376 | 4.4905★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.69557★ | 92,611 | 4.69557★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Burner: Second Phone Number: 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: 92,292 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Burner make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Burner earns approximately $31K/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 Burner?▴
Burner is published by Ad Hoc Labs, Inc 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 Burner's BU Score?▴
Burner has a BU Score of 82/100 (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.