File Manager - Folder Plus
66
Quality Score
Solid
File Manager - Folder Plus
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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File Manager - Folder Plus is an iOS app from The Very Games in the Business category, currently rated 4.4★ across 242 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 66: Solid (established niche player). For a Business 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 tierFREE
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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
$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 ~7 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 |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 16× MRR multiple
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~2.3× 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% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
15K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.4K
Daily active
1.0K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 37/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
4.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.43★ across 242 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 4041d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — rating drift -1.25 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (4041d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($10K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (242 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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 · v2.5.3
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
- bug fix for opening files from other apps
- bug fix for opening files from other apps
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- File Manager - Folder Plus
- Developer
- The Very Games
- Bundle ID
- com.theverygames.folderplus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- 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
- $10.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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 growth242 ratings+-32% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
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
"The ability to use multi touch to quickly move between viewing and editing files is also very good if you’re willing to utilize it." - Touch Reviews
*****
Folder Plus is an In-App Multitasking Capable File Manager/Viewer/Editor, with 3-Finger Swipes You Switch between Tasks of File Managing, Viewing, Editing, etc QUICKLY
*****
Folder Plus's Features
- Total File Manager
- Exclusive 3-Finger Task Switch
- Lightning Fast USB File Transfer
- Robust FTP/HTTP/WebDAV Sharing Server
- Support Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, iCloud, OneDrive
- Wide Range of Supported File Types
- Document Reader… View full description on the official store →
*****
Folder Plus is an In-App Multitasking Capable File Manager/Viewer/Editor, with 3-Finger Swipes You Switch between Tasks of File Managing, Viewing, Editing, etc QUICKLY
*****
Folder Plus's Features
- Total File Manager
- Exclusive 3-Finger Task Switch
- Lightning Fast USB File Transfer
- Robust FTP/HTTP/WebDAV Sharing Server
- Support Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, iCloud, OneDrive
- Wide Range of Supported File Types
- Document Reader… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 33 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 8.2+🔖 v2.5.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2013-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.18 (dropped 0.32★)
2012-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.86 → 4.38 (dropped 0.48★)
2011-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 662 reviews across 7 markets● 76% positive · ● 16% neutral · ● 8% negative · Rating drift: -1.25★ (declining — recent 50: 3.18★ vs lifetime: 4.43★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.72
🇨🇦 CA
+0.68
🇬🇧 GB
+0.66
🇺🇸 US
+0.58
🇮🇳 IN
+0.55
🇯🇵 JP
+0.17
🇧🇷 BR
+0.02
Top praise themes
google drive ×13 highly recommended ×8 drag drop ×8 transfer files ×8 ipad iphone ×7 manage files ×6 keep work ×6 user friendly ×6
Top complaint themes
waste money ×5 stopped working ×3 don't waste ×3 transfer files ×3 please fix ×3 now ×13 ipad ×13 can't ×11
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 4%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4★ | 14 | 4★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.29412★ | 51 | 4.29412★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.11111★ | 18 | 4.11111★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.25806★ | 31 | 4.25806★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.95238★ | 21 | 3.95238★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.03226★ | 31 | 4.03226★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.42562★ | 242 | 4.42562★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for File Manager - Folder Plus: 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: 242 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does File Manager - Folder Plus make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, File Manager - Folder Plus earns approximately $10K/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 File Manager - Folder Plus?▴
File Manager - Folder Plus is published by The Very Games 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 File Manager - Folder Plus's BU Score?▴
File Manager - Folder Plus has a BU Score of 66/100 (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.