Proton Authenticator
55
Quality Score
Solid
Proton Authenticator
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Proton Authenticator is an iOS app from Proton AG in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.3★ across 207 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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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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
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$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 (120 MB) | +$28K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$7K |
Total estimate
$85K
👥 Estimated audience size
15K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.6K
Daily active
2.0K
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
43% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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 · 47/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
6.0
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.2
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
7.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.31★ across 207 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($123K/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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| New app (10 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (207 ratings)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 · v1.4.1
Your 2FA codes now live entirely on your device, giving you complete control over your security. We’ve introduced significant improvements to the backup screen, featuring a new system that works seamlessly to ensure your data remains secure and accessible.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Proton Authenticator
- Developer
- Proton AG
- Bundle ID
- me.proton.authenticator
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, PT, RU, ES, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- A better internet starts with privacy and freedom
- Description
- Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
- 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
- $283/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/intent/user?screen_name=ProtonP…
- linkedin.com/company/protonprivacy
- 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
- discord discord.gg/proton · facebook facebook.com/Proton · instagram instagram.com/protonprivacy · linkedin linkedin.com/company/protonprivacy · tiktok tiktok.com/@privacytok · twitter x.com/intent/user?screen_name=ProtonP… · youtube youtube.com/@ProtonAG?sub_confirmation=1
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- proton.me/support
- About page
- proton.me/about
📈Ratings growth219 ratings+606% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (54 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (10 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
Get the authenticator trusted by millions — from Proton Mail, the world's largest encrypted email provider.
Proton Authenticator is open source, end-to-end encrypted, and protected by strict Swiss privacy laws.
Protect all your new accounts and strengthen security on your existing ones. Proton Authenticator keeps your 2FA codes secure, accessible, and completely private — with full control over where your data is stored.
KEY FEATURES
Local-First Storage:Your 2FA codes are stored entirely on your device, giving you complete control over your data.… View full description on the official store →
Proton Authenticator is open source, end-to-end encrypted, and protected by strict Swiss privacy laws.
Protect all your new accounts and strengthen security on your existing ones. Proton Authenticator keeps your 2FA codes secure, accessible, and completely private — with full control over where your data is stored.
KEY FEATURES
Local-First Storage:Your 2FA codes are stored entirely on your device, giving you complete control over your data.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 120 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.4.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +5📂 Productivity💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.68 → 4.31 (improved 0.63★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.30 → 3.66 (dropped 0.64★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.66 → 4.30 (improved 0.64★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Proton Authenticator: 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: 207 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Proton Authenticator make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Proton Authenticator earns approximately $282/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 Proton Authenticator?▴
Proton Authenticator is published by Proton AG 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 Proton Authenticator's BU Score?▴
Proton Authenticator has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.