HID Approve
30
Quality Score
Emerging
HID Approve
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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HID Approve is an iOS app from HID Global in the Business category, currently rated 2.2★ across 28 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 30: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Business app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$244/mo · 721 ratings · 2.9★
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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
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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: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.9
Product Quality
1.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.25★ across 28 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Below-average rating (2.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (24 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (28 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- HID Approve
- Developer
- HID Global
- Bundle ID
- com.hidglobal.ia.trustops
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BG, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, EL, HU, IT, MN, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SV, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Powering Trusted Identities
- Description
- HID Global makes it possible for people to transact safely, work productively, and travel freely through the latest physical and digital technology.
- 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
- $158/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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- hidglobal.com/contact
- About page
- hidglobal.com/about
📈Ratings growth28 ratings+2700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (17 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
HID Approve is a multi-factor authentication solution from HID Global that delivers a simple and secure way for you to validate transactions and authenticate.
With push notifications and a simple swipe-gesture you can approve an authentication or transaction request on your mobile device. For mobile offline use, HID Approve enables you to generate one-time secure codes for strong authentication.
HID Approve is a part of a broad range of hardware and software security tokens from HID Global that work with the HID Authentication Platform.… View full description on the official store →
With push notifications and a simple swipe-gesture you can approve an authentication or transaction request on your mobile device. For mobile offline use, HID Approve enables you to generate one-time secure codes for strong authentication.
HID Approve is a part of a broad range of hardware and software security tokens from HID Global that work with the HID Authentication Platform.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 22 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v6.0.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BG, HR, CS, DA +19📂 Business💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 ↑ 1.60 → 2.25 (improved 0.65★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 1.60 (dropped 0.73★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.33 → 3.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2020-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
2020-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.33333★ | 9 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.21053★ | 19 | 3.21053★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 1.55556★ | 72 | 1.55556★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.28571★ | 7 | 2.28571★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.25★ | 28 | 2.25★ this version |
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📝 Description
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 28 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
HID Approve is a small / niche iOS app in the business space with weak public traction — only 28 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does HID Approve make per month?▴
Our model estimates HID Approve earns roughly $158/mo, but with only 28 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
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Who makes HID Approve?▴
HID Approve is published by HID Global 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 HID Approve's BU Score?▴
HID Approve has a BU Score of 30/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.