Google Chrome
90
Quality Score
Transcendent
Google Chrome
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This iOS utility app serves the web browsing niche, directly competing with Safari, Firefox, and Edge for user attention. Its substantial user rating, reflecting over 3.5 million reviews, clearly signals established traction and a mature product stage. While the app is free, its estimated monthly revenue of roughly $35,000, despite no direct monetization, likely stems from Google’s broader ecosystem, potentially through search ad revenue share or data monetization. For the utilities category, a common monetization observation is the prevalence of premium, ad-free versions or subscription models for advanced features. Given Chrome’s established user base and brand recognition, introducing a paid tier for enhanced privacy features or advanced productivity tools could significantly boost direct revenue without alienating its core free users. This approach is often seen in other mature utility apps looking to diversify their income streams beyond indirect monetization.
BU Score 90 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$4.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.1M – $5.5M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.6M – $6.9M
per month
MEGA 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
—
Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$15.3K/mo · 48.6M ratings · 4.1★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (357 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$600K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $425K – $700K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~8.0× 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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
711.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
142.0M
Daily active
28.0M
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$4.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.9M – $4.8M
12 months
$4.1M – $5.5M
24 months
$4.6M – $6.9M
Compound growth at +1.5% MoM (tier baseline for MEGA). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±10% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 62/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.2
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
6.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.6M - $8.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.69★ across 3,506,880 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $72.0M-$128.0M.
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:
| High install base (3,555,804 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (38 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 · v149.0.8727.45
Thanks for choosing Chrome! This version includes:
• When a tab is sent from Chrome on another device, you'll get a notification on your lock screen.… Full release notes →
• When a tab is sent from Chrome on another device, you'll get a notification on your lock screen.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Google Chrome
- Developer
- Bundle ID
- com.google.chrome.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LT, MS, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI
Company
- Website
- www.google.com
- 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
- $10.0K ($10.0K – $10.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $120.0K/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $35.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Google Chrome" is estimated to generate approximately $10,000 in monthly revenue. This low figure is likely because the app is a free browser, with Google's primary revenue from Chrome stemming from search advertising rather than direct in-app purchases within the browser itself.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Apple App Store
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.1★ · 42.9% 5★ · 42.9% 1★
5★21 (43%)
4★6 (12%)
3★0 (0%)
2★1 (2%)
1★21 (43%)
+45,097 ratings/week
Praise: love ×5 best ×4 great ×1 amazing ×1 awesome ×1Complaints: terrible ×2 crash ×1 worst ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ A message for you
A Special Message Just For You
1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I pr…
★★★★★ Stop
I didn’t want to write a review, but I had to write a review just to get out of there’s…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Yeah, no, I dont need AI shoved up my...
See, the fun think about a web browser, is when it allows me to browes the internet. The rad thing about a search engine is when it shows me websites that may have info related to what Im searching for. If I wanted my food to pass through s…
★☆☆☆☆ AI Slop, it has to STOP
I uninstalled chrome as soon as I learned that they were going to replace the search feature with an AI chatbot. That's not what I signed up for. Google, you are gonna be HEMORRHAGING money soon. Give this UP, people do NOT WANT AI.
G…
📈Ratings growth3,555,804 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (6 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.
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
Chrome helps you do what’s possible on the web. Download the fast, secure browser by Google.
GET THE BEST OF GOOGLE IN CHROME
• SEARCH WITH GOOGLE - Search and get answers on Google fast. Use your voice to search hands-free.
• GOOGLE LENS - Search what you see on your screen or with your camera.
• GOOGLE TRANSLATE - Explore the web in 130+ languages. Translate entire sites in one click.
BROWSE WITH BEST-IN-CLASS SECURITY
• ENHANCED PROTECTION MODE - Browse confidently with the highest level of Chrome’s security.
• SAFETY CHECK - Get peace of mind with proactive safety alerts.… View full description on the official store →
GET THE BEST OF GOOGLE IN CHROME
• SEARCH WITH GOOGLE - Search and get answers on Google fast. Use your voice to search hands-free.
• GOOGLE LENS - Search what you see on your screen or with your camera.
• GOOGLE TRANSLATE - Explore the web in 130+ languages. Translate entire sites in one click.
BROWSE WITH BEST-IN-CLASS SECURITY
• ENHANCED PROTECTION MODE - Browse confidently with the highest level of Chrome’s security.
• SAFETY CHECK - Get peace of mind with proactive safety alerts.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 357 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v149.0.8727.45🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BG, CA, HR, CS +33📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 →
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v148.0.7778.100
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.80 → 4.60 (improved 0.80★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2026-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.61949★ | 219,729 | 4.61949★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82734★ | 585,237 | 4.82734★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.65531★ | 393,550 | 4.65531★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5838★ | 225,142 | 4.5838★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.56691★ | 344,589 | 4.56691★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.64534★ | 391,605 | 4.64534★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.58892★ | 878,500 | 4.58892★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.44926★ | 490,907 | 4.44926★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.68778★ | 3,553,104 | 4.68778★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Google Chrome: 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 high confidence: 3,555,804 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Google Chrome make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Google Chrome earns approximately $35K/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 Google Chrome?▴
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Who makes Google Chrome?▴
Google Chrome is published by Google 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 Google Chrome's BU Score?▴
Google Chrome has a BU Score of 90/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.