Hiya: Spam Blocker & Caller ID
82
Quality Score
Excellent
Hiya: Spam Blocker & Caller ID
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Hiya: Spam Blocker & Caller ID is an iOS app from Hiya in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.5★ across 236,669 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$838K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$888K – $1367K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1M – $2.0M
per month
BIG 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
$2.9K/mo · 263K ratings · 4.0★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$50K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $70K
$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 (74 MB) | +$9K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-9031 |
Total estimate
$50K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~4.0× 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 (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
47.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.4M
Daily active
1.9M
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
$838K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$826K – $1.1M
12 months
$888K – $1.4M
24 months
$1.1M – $2.0M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.3
Product Quality
9.1
Revenue Strength
5.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $335K - $1845K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 236,669 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 = $15.1M-$26.8M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (236,669 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v9.6
This release contains some paste button fixes for lookups and some performance improvements as well.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hiya: Spam Blocker & Caller ID
- Developer
- Hiya
- Bundle ID
- com.whitepages.callerid
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, HU, IT, PT, ES
Company
- Website
- hiya.com
- Tagline
- Increase answer rates
- Description
- Hiya protects people from spam and fraud calls, connects businesses with customers, and helps carriers secure their networks.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $100.0KAI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $1.2M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $12.8K/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
- facebook facebook.com/hiyainc · linkedin linkedin.com/company/hiyainc
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- hiya.com/contact-us
- About page
- hiya.com/company/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Hiya: Spam Blocker & Caller ID" is estimated to generate approximately $100,000 in monthly revenue in the US, based on recent Sensor Tower data. This translates to an estimated annual revenue of $1.2 million.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Apple App Store
📈Ratings growth236,669 ratings+28% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (36 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
Stop missing important calls and wasting precious time answering unwanted ones. Hiya blocks spam and scam calls, and displays caller ID name and call reason on incoming calls.
Want to supercharge your Hiya app? Try our Premium features to get an even richer mobile calling experience.
CALL SCREENER
Know not only who it is, but also why they’re calling before you pick up! Say ‘goodbye’ to unknown callers.
VOICEMAIL PROTECTION
No more spam voicemail! Hiya takes care of business and stops spammers and scammers from clogging up your voicemail inbox.… View full description on the official store →
Want to supercharge your Hiya app? Try our Premium features to get an even richer mobile calling experience.
CALL SCREENER
Know not only who it is, but also why they’re calling before you pick up! Say ‘goodbye’ to unknown callers.
VOICEMAIL PROTECTION
No more spam voicemail! Hiya takes care of business and stops spammers and scammers from clogging up your voicemail inbox.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 74 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v9.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, HU, IT +2📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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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 →
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.21 → 4.54 (improved 2.33★)
2025-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.88 → 2.22 (improved 0.34★)
2025-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
2025-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — hiya.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Anthropic · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · OpenAI · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.42067★ | 2,622 | 4.42067★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.43861★ | 1,922 | 4.43861★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.28272★ | 2,858 | 4.28272★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.24057★ | 557 | 4.24057★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.21173★ | 1,091 | 4.21173★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.49841★ | 5,361 | 4.49841★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.00447★ | 447 | 4.00447★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.4898★ | 49 | 4.4898★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.53571★ | 236,815 | 4.53571★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hiya: Spam Blocker & Caller ID: 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: 236,669 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hiya make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hiya earns approximately $12K/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 Hiya?▴
Hiya is published by Hiya 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 Hiya's BU Score?▴
Hiya has a BU Score of 82/100 (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.