GlobalProtect™
61
Quality Score
Solid
GlobalProtect™
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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GlobalProtect™ is an iOS app from Palo Alto Networks in the Business category, currently rated 4.4★ across 2,595 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 61: 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 tier
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📊 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
$608/mo · 5K ratings · 2.4★
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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
📈
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 |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
165K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
36K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% 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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.7
Product Quality
7.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.39★ across 2,595 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 = $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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (2,595 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (7 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v6.1.13
This version includes bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GlobalProtect™
- Developer
- Palo Alto Networks
- Bundle ID
- com.paloaltonetworks.globalprotect.vpn
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, JA, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Control the chaos. Secure every identity.
- Description
- Implement Zero Trust, Secure your Network, Cloud workloads, Hybrid Workforce, Leverage Threat Intelligence & Security Consulting. Cybersecurity Services & Education for CISO’s, Head of Infrastructure, Network Security Engineers, Cloud Architects & SOC Managers
- 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
- $646/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/PaloAltoNtwks
- linkedin.com/company/palo-alto-networks
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/PaloAltoNetworks · linkedin linkedin.com/company/palo-alto-networks · twitter twitter.com/PaloAltoNtwks · youtube youtube.com/user/paloaltonetworks
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- paloaltonetworks.com/company/contact-…
📈Ratings growth2,595 ratings+3185% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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
GlobalProtect for iOS connects to a GlobalProtect gateway on a Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall to allow mobile users to benefit from enterprise security protection. Enterprise administrator can configure the same app to connect in either Always-On VPN, Remote Access VPN or Per App VPN mode. The app automatically adapts to the end user’s location and connects the user to the best available gateway in order to deliver optimal performance for all users and their traffic, without requiring any effort from the user.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 16 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v6.1.13🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, JA, ZH +2📂 Business💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↑ 1.71 → 4.39 (improved 2.68★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 1.71 (dropped 2.69★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.71 → 4.40 (improved 2.69★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.67 → 2.25 (dropped 0.42★)
2018-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2018-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.39552★ | 134 | 4.39552★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.59389★ | 229 | 4.59389★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.23604★ | 233 | 4.23604★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.39865★ | 296 | 4.39865★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.41★ | 100 | 4.41★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.47619★ | 231 | 4.47619★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.13575★ | 221 | 4.13575★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.02952★ | 1,592 | 4.02952★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.39253★ | 2,624 | 4.39253★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,595 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GlobalProtect™ make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GlobalProtect™ earns approximately $646/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 GlobalProtect™?▴
GlobalProtect™ is published by Palo Alto Networks 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 GlobalProtect™'s BU Score?▴
GlobalProtect™ has a BU Score of 61/100 (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.