Delta Chat
54
Quality Score
Solid
Delta Chat
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
“
Delta Chat is an iOS app from merlinux in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.4★ across 107 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
Loading…
Rating
—
Reviews
—
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$177/mo · 36 ratings · 4.3★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (58 MB) | +$3K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$37K |
Total estimate
$90K
👥 Estimated audience size
9.6K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.4K
Daily active
1.3K
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
54% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Product Quality
6.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.4★ across 107 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (42 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (107 ratings)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 · v2.49.2
Added an App Clip to handle an invite link in case the app wasn't installed yet.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Delta Chat
- Developer
- merlinux
- Bundle ID
- chat.delta
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- SQ, AR, AZ, EU, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, EO, ET, FI, FR, GL, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LT, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SC, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TA, TE, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Delta Chat: Delta Chat, decentralized secure messenger
- Description
- Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app 💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support ⚡️ Sign up to secure and interoperable chatmail relays 🥳 Interactive ...
- 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
- $258/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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.
📈Ratings growth107 ratings+10600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (26 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
Delta Chat is a reliable decentralized instant messenger that is easy and fun to use for friends, family, groups and organizations. Delta Chat is developed by a dedicated FOSS contributor community that jointly releases refinements and new features several times a year, across many stores and platforms world-wide.
Features at a glance:
• Private. Instant on-boarding without a phone number or other private data.
• Friends & Family: Only chat with people you know. Unknown users cannot message or follow you without mutual consent.
• Flexible.… View full description on the official store →
Features at a glance:
• Private. Instant on-boarding without a phone number or other private data.
• Friends & Family: Only chat with people you know. Unknown users cannot message or follow you without mutual consent.
• Flexible.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 58 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v2.49.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 SQ, AR, AZ, EU, BG +37📂 Social Networking💰 Free
📅
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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.43 → 4.50 (improved 1.07★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.25 (dropped 0.75★)
2021-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
2021-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.85714★ | 7 | 3.85714★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.66667★ | 12 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.46666★ | 105 | 4.46666★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.7★ | 10 | 4.7★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.08333★ | 12 | 4.08333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.33333★ | 6 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.43635★ | 110 | 4.43635★ this version |
🔔
Track this app’s revenue
FREEGet an email when revenue moves by your threshold. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Delta Chat: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
More by merlinux
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$177/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 100% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
Similar apps in Social Networking
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 107 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Delta Chat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Delta Chat earns approximately $258/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.
What apps are like Delta Chat?▴
Browse the full Social Networking category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
Who makes Delta Chat?▴
Delta Chat is published by merlinux 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 Delta Chat's BU Score?▴
Delta Chat has a BU Score of 54/100 (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.