Kik Messaging & Chat App
71
Quality Score
Strong
Kik Messaging & Chat App
by Medialab - Kik
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Kik Messaging & Chat App is an iOS app from Medialab - Kik in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.3★ across 483,751 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking 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
$3.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.7M – $5.7M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.4M – $8.2M
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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$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 (270 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 16× 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 |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
43.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
10.5M
Daily active
5.8M
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.5M – $4.7M
12 months
$3.7M – $5.7M
24 months
$4.4M – $8.2M
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
Concerning · 52/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
6.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.4M - $7.7M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.26★ across 483,751 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $63.0M-$112.0M.
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 (483,751 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v17.13.5
Improvements & Bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Kik Messaging & Chat App
- Developer
- Medialab - Kik
- Bundle ID
- com.kik.chat
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $746/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#84 /100 🇦🇺#90 /100
- 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
- apps.apple.com/us/app/foxtale-self-he…
- About page
- apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1500…
📈Ratings growth484,409 ratings+26% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇬🇧GB#84 /100
🇦🇺AU#90 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#84 now · best #82 · worst #84
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter6 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline6 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
Get connected.
Kik is way more than just messaging. It’s the easiest way to connect with your friends, stay in the loop, and explore – all through chat. No phone numbers, just pick a username.
• Choose who to chat with one-on-one and in groups
• Share pics, videos, gifs, games, and more
• Meet new friends with similar interests
Get on Kik now. Start chatting!
You can read our End User License Agreement here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Kik is way more than just messaging. It’s the easiest way to connect with your friends, stay in the loop, and explore – all through chat. No phone numbers, just pick a username.
• Choose who to chat with one-on-one and in groups
• Share pics, videos, gifs, games, and more
• Meet new friends with similar interests
Get on Kik now. Start chatting!
You can read our End User License Agreement here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 270 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v17.13.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, IT +8📂 Social Networking💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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 →
2026-06
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Shipped update — v17.13.2 → v17.3.4
→ 30 days after: revenue +$746/mo · reviews +281 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v17.13.1 → v17.13.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +319 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v17.13.0 → v17.13.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +408 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v17.12.1 → v17.13.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +345 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.90 → 4.26 (improved 0.36★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +229 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +229 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.89 → 3.90 (improved 2.01★)
→ 30 days after: rating +2.01★ · reviews +482,378 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.01★ · reviews +482,378 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.00★ · reviews +482,379 medium · co-occurring
2025-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +30 high confidence
2025-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +32 high confidence
2024-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +31 high confidence
2024-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 1.92 (dropped 0.41★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +31 high confidence
2024-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +45 low · multiple changes
2024-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +45 low · multiple changes
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +45 low · multiple changes
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +45 low · multiple changes
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +45 low · multiple changes
2024-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +45 low · multiple changes
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #5Ranked for 4 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
messaging·#5🇺🇸group chat·#7🇺🇸anonymous chat·#10🇺🇸social network·#42🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.09291★ | 30,967 | 4.09291★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.39607★ | 3,055 | 4.39607★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.0024★ | 32,437 | 4.0024★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.93359★ | 26,487 | 3.93359★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.06738★ | 6,737 | 4.06738★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.07817★ | 66,116 | 4.07817★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.89773★ | 9,817 | 3.89773★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.21522★ | 1,603 | 4.21522★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.26445★ | 484,371 | 4.26445★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Kik Messaging & Chat App: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 483,751 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Kik Messaging & Chat App make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Kik Messaging & Chat App earns approximately $746/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.
What apps are like Kik Messaging & Chat App?▴
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Who makes Kik Messaging & Chat App?▴
Kik Messaging & Chat App is published by Medialab - Kik 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 Kik Messaging & Chat App's BU Score?▴
Kik Messaging & Chat App has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.