MEGA
76
Quality Score
Strong
MEGA
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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MEGA is an iOS app from Mega Limited in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.6★ across 101,816 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity 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
$1.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.6M – $2.4M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.9M – $3.5M
per month
BIG 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
$5.1K/mo · 1.6M ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.5y 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 (362 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
7.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.2M
Daily active
1.0M
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.5M – $2.0M
12 months
$1.6M – $2.4M
24 months
$1.9M – $3.5M
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 · 53/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksRevenue Strength
6.2
Product Quality
9.2
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $600K - $3300K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 101,816 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 = $27.0M-$48.0M.
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 (101,816 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (19 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.
🆕 What's New · v18.6
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MEGA
- Developer
- Mega Limited
- Bundle ID
- mega.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Online privacy for everyone — secure encrypted cloud storage by default
- Description
- MEGA offers 20 GB free encrypted cloud storage, secure file upload, download and sharing, private chat and meetings, plus VPN and password manager.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $800.0K ($700.0K – $900.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $9.6M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#22 /100 🇨🇦#24 /100 🇺🇸#33 /100 🇫🇷#34 /100 🇬🇧#36 /100 🇧🇷#39 /100 🇩🇪#43 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/MEGAprivacy
- linkedin.com/company/mega-the-privacy…
- 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/MEGAprivacy · instagram instagram.com/MEGA_privacy · linkedin linkedin.com/company/mega-the-privacy… · twitter x.com/MEGAprivacy · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCL0n8SACU_eghsvH…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- mega.io/contact
- About page
- mega.io/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The estimated monthly revenue for the iOS app "MEGA" is around $800,000, based on recent data from Sensor Tower for April 2026. An older estimate from Adapty in September 2024 suggested a monthly revenue of $700,000. This leads to an estimated annual revenue of $9.6 million.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty
📈Ratings growth101,816 ratings+52% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇯🇵JP#22 /100
🇨🇦CA#24 /100
🇺🇸US#33 /100
🇫🇷FR#34 /100
🇬🇧GB#36 /100
🇧🇷BR#39 /100
🇩🇪DE#43 /100
🇮🇳IN#43 /100
🇦🇺AU#52 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#22 now · best #22 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
MEGA is one app for everything private. Securely store, back up, share files, and chat, protected by true zero-knowledge encryption. Only you can access your files. Not even us.
Store & back up
- 20 GB of free encrypted cloud storage, no credit card required
- Automatic camera backup for your photos and videos
- Access your files from any device, anywhere, anytime
- Restore previous versions with file version history
Share & collaborate
- Share files and folders with secure, password-protected links
- Set expiry dates on shared links for time-limited access… View full description on the official store →
Store & back up
- 20 GB of free encrypted cloud storage, no credit card required
- Automatic camera backup for your photos and videos
- Access your files from any device, anywhere, anytime
- Restore previous versions with file version history
Share & collaborate
- Share files and folders with secure, password-protected links
- Set expiry dates on shared links for time-limited access… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 362 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v18.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, NL, EN, FR, DE +14📂 Productivity💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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
📈
Crossed 100,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.74 → 4.50 (improved 1.76★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.00 (improved 0.33★)
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.25 → 2.80 (improved 0.55★)
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.67 → 2.25 (dropped 0.42★)
2024-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.60371★ | 102,913 | 4.60371★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.42997★ | 12,124 | 4.42997★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.51931★ | 7,793 | 4.51931★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.62756★ | 10,321 | 4.62756★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.42469★ | 15,630 | 4.42469★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.51769★ | 7,827 | 4.51769★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.48202★ | 4,087 | 4.48202★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.67035★ | 15,693 | 4.67035★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.51487★ | 9,719 | 4.51487★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for MEGA: 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: 101,816 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does MEGA make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, MEGA earns approximately $1.8K/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 MEGA?▴
MEGA is published by Mega Limited 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 MEGA's BU Score?▴
MEGA has a BU Score of 76/100 (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.