Index: Business Phone Number
52
Quality Score
Solid
Index: Business Phone Number
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Index: Business Phone Number is an iOS app from Pinger, Inc. in the Business category, currently rated 3.9★ across 377 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Business app, that means established niche player. 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
$4.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.1K – $14.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.8K – $34.2K
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$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 (174 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$45K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
24K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.3K
Daily active
1.5K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
28% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$4.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.0K – $9.3K
12 months
$4.1K – $14.8K
24 months
$3.8K – $34.2K
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 · 45/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.4
Product Quality
5.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $11K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.92★ across 377 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $84K-$150K. Portfolio play ($54K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (377 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · vv13.17
Index - Simple, powerful customer management tools.
This release includes minor enhancements.
This release includes minor enhancements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Index: Business Phone Number
- Developer
- Pinger, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.pinger.index.crm.business.texting
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Better business communication at your fingertips
- Description
- Index helps small businesses improve customer communication with powerful tools like instant auto-reply, customer notes, texting shortcuts, and more.
- 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
- $861/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#89 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- app.getindex.com/messaging/login
- linkedin.com/showcase/getindexapp
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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/getindexapp · instagram instagram.com/getindexapp · linkedin linkedin.com/showcase/getindexapp · twitter app.getindex.com/messaging/login · youtube youtube.com/@getindexapp
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- getindex.com/contact
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth377 ratings+246% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #89 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#89 now · best #84 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Index helps small businesses improve customer communication with powerful tools like instant auto-reply, texting shortcuts, customer notes, and more.
GET A DEDICATED BUSINESS PHONE NUMBER
Index gives you a local number that you can use alongside your existing business number or as a replacement for it. Your Index Number powers all of your Index communication tools and features.
RESPOND TO MISSED BUSINESS CALLS AUTOMATICALLY
Turn missed calls into opportunities with Auto-Reply.… View full description on the official store →
GET A DEDICATED BUSINESS PHONE NUMBER
Index gives you a local number that you can use alongside your existing business number or as a replacement for it. Your Index Number powers all of your Index communication tools and features.
RESPOND TO MISSED BUSINESS CALLS AUTOMATICALLY
Turn missed calls into opportunities with Auto-Reply.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 174 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 vv13.17🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid
📅
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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.27 → 3.92 (improved 1.65★)
2025-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2022-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Index: Business Phone Number: 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 medium confidence: 377 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Index make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Index earns approximately $861/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 Index?▴
Index is published by Pinger, 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 Index's BU Score?▴
Index has a BU Score of 52/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.