How much does Onion Browser make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Onion Browser earns approximately $9.8K/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.

What apps are like Onion Browser?

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Who makes Onion Browser?

Onion Browser is published by Mike Tigas 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 Onion Browser's BU Score?

Onion Browser has a BU Score of 54/100 (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.

Onion Browser

Quality Score

Solid

Onion Browser

Name: Onion Browser — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Onion Browser revenue, Onion Browser app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

Medium confidence

3.2 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Onion Browser is an iOS app from Mike Tigas in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.2★ across 2,091 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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

$500

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$437 – $1575

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$405 – $3644

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$55K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $40K – $75K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~6 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 (79 MB)	+$11K
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-9324

Total estimate $55K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$100K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 11× MRR multiple

💸 ~1.8× build cost (break-even+)

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 (weak)	-18%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%

Final multiple 11× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

415K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

83K

Daily active

16K

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

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How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$426 – $993

12 months

$437 – $1.6K

24 months

$405 – $3.6K

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 · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tier

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

5.0

Product Quality

5.8

Revenue Strength

2.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

4.5

Market Position

0.3

Operational Safety

8.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 3.2★ across 2,091 reviews — below category median.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($9K/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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Low install base (2,091 ratings)METRIC		+$1,500
Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (14y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (38 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v3.3.7

- Updated Tor to 0.4.9.6.
- Updated to Snowflake 2.13.1.
- Updated translations.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Onion Browser
Developer: Mike Tigas
Bundle ID: com.miketigas.OnionBrowser
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 17+
Languages: SQ, AR, BN, KM, CA, HR, CS, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, IS, ID, GA, IT, JA, KO, MK, NB, PS, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, TT, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI

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: $9.8K/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

Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.

📈Ratings growth2,091 ratings+-8% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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

Onion Browser is the original free and open-source Tor-powered web browser for iOS. Onion Browser helps you access the internet with more safety and privacy, and no extra cost to you.

“The best Tor-related offering on iOS right now is Onion Browser” - The Daily Dot, October 14, 2015.

Featured in: The New York Times, The Guardian, Salon, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Lifehacker, Macworld, The Daily Dot, & others.

FEATURES:
• Browse the internet over Tor:
- Protect your privacy from website tracking
- Secure your traffic from insecure wireless networks and ISPs
- Access .… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 79 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.3.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 SQ, AR, BN, KM, CA +33📂 Utilities💰 Paid

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

14 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.61 → 3.20 (improved 0.59★)

2026-05

📈

Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.20 → 2.61 (dropped 0.59★)

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.61 → 3.20 (improved 0.59★)

2026-03

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2018-01

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2016-03

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2014-09

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2014-09

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.14 (dropped 0.36★)

2014-09

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.75 → 3.20 (dropped 0.55★)

2014-09

⭐

Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)

2014-08

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.33 (improved 0.83★)

2014-08

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.00 → 2.50 (dropped 1.50★)

2014-08

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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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📝 Description

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