Helium Mobile
74
Quality Score
Strong
Helium Mobile
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Helium Mobile is an iOS app from Nova Labs, Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 14,131 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 74: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. 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
$1.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.1K – $3.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$989 – $8903
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (177 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.8M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
560K
Daily active
110K
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
$1.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.0K – $2.4K
12 months
$1.1K – $3.8K
24 months
$989 – $8.9K
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 · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.1
Product Quality
9.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.7
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $488 - $3053/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 14,131 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 = $21K-$39K.
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:
| Mid install base (14,131 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v4.2.4
Bug fixes and enhancements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Helium Mobile
- Developer
- Nova Labs, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.helium.mobile.wireless
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Helium Mobile
- Description
- Helium Mobile is the only carrier to offer affordable phone plans that reward you. It’s time to break free from Big Telco.
- 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
- $1.2K/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
- Socials
- instagram instagram.com/heliummobile · tiktok tiktok.com/@heliummobile?is_from_weba… · twitter twitter.com/helium_mobile
- support@hellohelium.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth14,131 ratings+1087% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (38 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Powered by the nation’s largest 5G network and a groundbreaking people-built network, Helium Mobile is a bold new way to connect.
Disclaimer:
By downloading the app, you are agreeing to the Helium Mobile App Terms & Conditions: https://hellohelium.com/terms-and-conditions
* Rewards are a function of network governance and depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, individual activities, network usage, technical and/or operational issues, and network governance.… View full description on the official store →
Disclaimer:
By downloading the app, you are agreeing to the Helium Mobile App Terms & Conditions: https://hellohelium.com/terms-and-conditions
* Rewards are a function of network governance and depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, individual activities, network usage, technical and/or operational issues, and network governance.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 177 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v4.2.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 ↑ 3.52 → 4.79 (improved 1.27★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 3.54 (dropped 1.26★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.54 → 4.80 (improved 1.26★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.25 → 3.60 (improved 0.35★)
2024-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.25 (improved 0.58★)
2024-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 2.67 (dropped 0.83★)
2024-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2024-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — hellohelium.com
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Helium Mobile: 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: 14,131 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Helium Mobile make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Helium Mobile earns approximately $1.2K/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 Helium Mobile?▴
Helium Mobile is published by Nova Labs, 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 Helium Mobile's BU Score?▴
Helium Mobile has a BU Score of 74/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.