Google Sheets
89
Quality Score
Excellent
Google Sheets
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This app targets the mobile productivity niche, specifically spreadsheet creation and collaboration, directly competing with Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers. Its substantial rating count and high average rating indicate strong user satisfaction and broad market adoption. Coupled with consistent monthly revenue, this signals a mature product with established traction, likely in a sustained growth or optimization phase rather than early-stage acquisition. For productivity apps in this category, a common monetization observation is the freemium model’s effectiveness, often leveraging a free tier for individual use with premium upgrades tied to advanced features, increased storage, or team-based collaboration within a broader ecosystem like Google Workspace. This strategy drives both individual adoption and enterprise-level revenue through subscription-based access to a suite of tools.
BU Score 89 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. 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
$12.0M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.3M – $16.4M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$13.7M – $20.6M
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
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$13.9K/mo · 29.1M ratings · 4.1★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 (370 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $400K – $700K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~5.0× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
131.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
39.0M
Daily active
17.5M
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
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$12.0M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+1.5% MoM · MEGA tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$11.8M – $14.4M
12 months
$12.3M – $16.4M
24 months
$13.7M – $20.6M
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 · 63/100MEGA TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.2
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
7.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Strong — $4.8M - $24.0M/mo · MEGA tier · low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.81★ across 1,756,694 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 32-48× monthly = $384.0M-$576.0M.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,756,694 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (67 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 · v1.2026.20103
* Security improvements, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Google Sheets
- Developer
- Bundle ID
- com.google.Sheets
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, AM, AR, HY, AZ, EU, BE, BN, BG, KM, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, GL, KA, DE, EL, GU, HE, HI, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, KN, KK, KO, LO, LV, LT, MS, ML, MR, MN, NE, NB, OR, FA, PL, PT, PA, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SI, SK, SL, ES, SW, SV, TA, TE, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI, ZU
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
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $25.8K/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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "Google Sheets" by Google is a free application and does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions. Its value is primarily as a component of the broader Google Workspace ecosystem, contributing to user engagement and the adoption of Google's services, which may indirectly drive revenue for other Google products like Google One storage subscriptions.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Adapty, Reddit
📈Ratings growth1,756,694 ratings+45% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (23 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
Create, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets with the Google Sheets app. With Sheets you can:
* Create new spreadsheets or edit existing ones
* Share spreadsheets and collaborate with others in the same spreadsheet at the same time
* Work anywhere, anytime - even offline
* Format cells, enter/sort data, view charts, insert formulas, use find/replace, and more
* Never worry about losing your work -- everything is automatically saved as you type
* Open, edit, and save Excel files
Google Sheets is part of Google Workspace: where teams of any size can chat, create, and collaborate.… View full description on the official store →
* Create new spreadsheets or edit existing ones
* Share spreadsheets and collaborate with others in the same spreadsheet at the same time
* Work anywhere, anytime - even offline
* Format cells, enter/sort data, view charts, insert formulas, use find/replace, and more
* Never worry about losing your work -- everything is automatically saved as you type
* Open, edit, and save Excel files
Google Sheets is part of Google Workspace: where teams of any size can chat, create, and collaborate.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 370 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.2026.20103🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AF, AM, AR, HY, AZ +62📂 Productivity💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.2026.19100
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.44 → 4.70 (improved 1.26★)
2025-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2025-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.74733★ | 90,695 | 4.74733★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89759★ | 310,431 | 4.89759★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.74873★ | 178,332 | 4.74873★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.67737★ | 79,076 | 4.67737★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.69881★ | 131,060 | 4.69881★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74467★ | 163,107 | 4.74467★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.76701★ | 247,751 | 4.76701★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.56433★ | 342,027 | 4.56433★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.80825★ | 1,769,322 | 4.80825★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Google Sheets: 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: 1,756,694 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Google Sheets make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Google Sheets earns approximately $25K/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 Google Sheets?▴
Google Sheets 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 Sheets's BU Score?▴
Google Sheets has a BU Score of 89/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.