McAfee Security: Private VPN
84
Quality Score
Excellent
McAfee Security: Private VPN
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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McAfee Security: Private VPN is an iOS app from McAfee, LLC. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 227,336 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 84: 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
$824K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$873K – $1344K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.0M – $1.9M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
🤖Also on Android
$4.3K/mo · 880K ratings · 4.7★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 (343 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$700K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $500K – $900K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~9.3× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
45.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.0M
Daily active
1.8M
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
| 📲 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
$824K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$813K – $1.1M
12 months
$873K – $1.3M
24 months
$1.0M – $1.9M
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 · 51/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
5.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $329K - $1814K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 227,336 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 = $14.8M-$26.4M.
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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (227,336 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (26 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
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.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- McAfee Security: Private VPN
- Developer
- McAfee, LLC.
- Bundle ID
- com.mcafee.mms
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SV, ZH, TR
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
- $1.0M ($700.0K – $1.0M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $12.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $41.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#7 /100 🇬🇧#14 /100 🇨🇦#14 /100 🇮🇳#16 /100 🇺🇸#19 /100 🇦🇺#20 /100 🇧🇷#29 /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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app, referred to as "McAfee: Stay Secure & Private" or "McAfee Security: Privacy & VPN," is estimated to generate between $700,000 and $1,000,000 in monthly revenue. The most recent estimate suggests a monthly revenue of $1,000,000, leading to an annual estimate of $12,000,000.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty
📈Ratings growth227,336 ratings+24% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇩🇪DE#7 /100
🇬🇧GB#14 /100
🇨🇦CA#14 /100
🇮🇳IN#16 /100
🇺🇸US#19 /100
🇦🇺AU#20 /100
🇧🇷BR#29 /100
🇯🇵JP#92 /100
🇫🇷FR#95 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#7 now · best #7 · 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.
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All-in-one protection to help you stay a step ahead of scammers and online threats. Includes scam detection, personal info removal from risky sites, identity monitoring, VPN, award-winning protection for all your devices, and more.
McAfee Security protects smartphones, tablets, Macs, and PCs with robust privacy features, bank-grade VPN encryption, and breach monitoring for safe browsing.
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 343 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v10.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, DA, NL +21📂 Utilities💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 ↑ 3.08 → 4.60 (improved 1.52★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.00 (improved 0.40★)
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 3.00 (improved 0.67★)
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2024-05
🚀
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 | 4.58481★ | 5,966 | 4.58481★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.71331★ | 50,040 | 4.71331★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.57498★ | 12,503 | 4.57498★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.54939★ | 16,238 | 4.54939★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.46967★ | 7,863 | 4.46967★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.64264★ | 29,256 | 4.64264★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.55651★ | 7,193 | 4.55651★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.87296★ | 3,621 | 3.87296★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.71891★ | 228,800 | 4.71891★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for McAfee Security: Private VPN: 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: 227,336 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does McAfee Security make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, McAfee Security earns approximately $41K/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 McAfee Security?▴
McAfee Security is published by McAfee, LLC. 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 McAfee Security's BU Score?▴
McAfee Security has a BU Score of 84/100 (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.