cTrader: CFD Trading Platform
69
Quality Score
Solid
cTrader: CFD Trading Platform
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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cTrader: CFD Trading Platform is an iOS app from Spotware in the Finance category, currently rated 4.8★ across 1,626 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Finance app, that means established niche player. 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
$2.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.1M – $3.3M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.5M – $4.7M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~1.2y 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 (280 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$54K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 20× MRR multiple
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~1.4× build cost (break-even+)
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% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
97K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
27K
Daily active
10K
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
| 📲 Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
39% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$2.0M – $2.7M
12 months
$2.1M – $3.3M
24 months
$2.5M – $4.7M
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 · 59/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.7
Product Quality
8.6
Revenue Strength
6.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $800K - $4400K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 1,626 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $36.0M-$64.0M.
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:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,626 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (23 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v5.9.120
cTrader Mobile 5.9 introduces My cTrader, improves in-app navigation and upgrades charts with floating panels and focus features.
My cTrader
Explore your new trading hub available from the bottom bar.… Full release notes →
My cTrader
Explore your new trading hub available from the bottom bar.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- cTrader: CFD Trading Platform
- Developer
- Spotware
- Bundle ID
- com.spotware.ct
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, CS, EN, FR, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, TH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- From Store to cTrader
- Description
- Trading bots for sale—buy and sell trading algos in cTrader Store. Get the best forex and CFD algorithms online.
- 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
- $9.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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
- instagram instagram.com/ctrader.official?utm_ca… · tiktok tiktok.com/@ctrader.official?utm_camp… · twitter x.com/cTrader?utm_campaign=footer_ctr… · youtube youtube.com/spotware?utm_campaign=foo…
- support@ctrader.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth1,626 ratings+38% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (53 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.
🚀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
cTrader app provides a premium mobile trading experience: Buy and Sell global assets on Forex, Metals, Oil, Indices, Stocks, ETFs.
Just log in with your Apple, Facebook and Google account, or your cTrader ID and get access to a complete range of Order Types, advanced Technical Analysis tools, Price Alerts, Trade Statistics, Advanced Order Management settings, Symbol Watchlists and a variety of other settings to customize the platform to your on-the-go trading requirements.
Direct processing (STP) and No Dealing Desk (NDD) trading platform:… View full description on the official store →
Just log in with your Apple, Facebook and Google account, or your cTrader ID and get access to a complete range of Order Types, advanced Technical Analysis tools, Price Alerts, Trade Statistics, Advanced Order Management settings, Symbol Watchlists and a variety of other settings to customize the platform to your on-the-go trading requirements.
Direct processing (STP) and No Dealing Desk (NDD) trading platform:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 280 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.9.120🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, CS, EN, FR, DE +18📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
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Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2022-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.74566★ | 346 | 4.74566★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.75728★ | 103 | 4.75728★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.8251★ | 526 | 4.8251★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65794★ | 611 | 4.65794★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.63361★ | 464 | 4.63361★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.73296★ | 1,071 | 4.73296★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.71354★ | 1,159 | 4.71354★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.60531★ | 565 | 4.60531★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75298★ | 1,672 | 4.75298★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for cTrader: CFD Trading Platform: 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 medium confidence: 1,626 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does cTrader make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, cTrader earns approximately $9.8K/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 cTrader?▴
cTrader is published by Spotware 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 cTrader's BU Score?▴
cTrader has a BU Score of 69/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.