f3 vpn - simple VPN
56
Quality Score
Solid
f3 vpn - simple VPN
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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f3 vpn - simple VPN is an iOS app from Frigate Inc in the Productivity category, currently rated 3.9★ across 243 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 56: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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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
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $35K – $75K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× build cost (under-water)
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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
18K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.4K
Daily active
2.4K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
5.5
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.9★ across 243 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 214d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($3K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (243 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 · v1.271
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- f3 vpn - simple VPN
- Developer
- Frigate Inc
- Bundle ID
- org.fri-gate.fvpnfree
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, RU
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Fast, Secure, Realiable
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $3.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth243 ratings+312% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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
f3 VPN will help you ensure complete protection of your personal data and make Internet surfing safe without loss of speed. All our servers are available at maximum speed for all f3 VPN app users.
We do not store or transfer your data to anyone. At the same time, we try to ensure your safety and speed on the Internet as much as possible.
FOR WHAT?
• Using public Wi-Fi networks in cafes, bars, the subway and other public transport, your data stored on the device often becomes available to cyber fraudsters. Often, criminals can gain access to your information.… View full description on the official store →
We do not store or transfer your data to anyone. At the same time, we try to ensure your safety and speed on the Internet as much as possible.
FOR WHAT?
• Using public Wi-Fi networks in cafes, bars, the subway and other public transport, your data stored on the device often becomes available to cyber fraudsters. Often, criminals can gain access to your information.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 31 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.271🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, RU📂 Productivity💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.55 → 3.90 (improved 0.35★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.68 (improved 0.68★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.71 → 3.00 (dropped 0.71★)
2026-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.80 → 3.17 (improved 0.37★)
2023-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.25 → 2.80 (dropped 0.45★)
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.25 (improved 0.58★)
2023-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.50 → 2.67 (improved 1.17★)
2023-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2023-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4★ | 14 | 4★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.54167★ | 24 | 3.54167★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.35713★ | 14 | 2.35713★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.16667★ | 6 | 4.16667★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.98188★ | 276 | 3.98188★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for f3 vpn - simple VPN: 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: 243 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does f3 vpn - simple VPN make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, f3 vpn - simple VPN earns approximately $3.6K/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 f3 vpn - simple VPN?▴
f3 vpn - simple VPN is published by Frigate 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 f3 vpn - simple VPN's BU Score?▴
f3 vpn - simple VPN has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.