Proton VPN: Fast & Secure
79
Quality Score
Strong
Proton VPN: Fast & Secure
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Proton VPN: Fast & Secure is an iOS app from Proton AG in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 48,005 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG tier
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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
$4.9K/mo · 919K 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 <1 month 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 (258 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$1.1M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $800K – $1.4M · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~15× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
9.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.9M
Daily active
380K
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
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
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
Mixed signals · 59/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.6
Product Quality
9.1
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 48,005 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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 15 of 15 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (48,005 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (33 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v7.5.2
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Proton VPN: Fast & Secure
- Developer
- Proton AG
- Bundle ID
- ch.protonmail.vpn
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BE, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, KA, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- The best VPN to take control of your online world
- Description
- Get fast, secure VPN service in 120+ countries. Download our free VPN now — or check out Proton VPN Plus for even more premium features.
- 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
- $74.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇬🇧#4 /100 🇫🇷#4 /100 🇮🇳#7 /100 🇦🇺#13 /100 🇨🇦#15 /100 🇩🇪#16 /100 🇺🇸#27 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- x.com/intent/user?screen_name=ProtonVPN
- 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=ProtonVPN · youtube youtube.com/@ProtonAG?sub_confirmation=1
- abuse@protonvpn.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- protonvpn.com/support/watch-amazon-pr…
- About page
- protonvpn.com/about
📈Ratings growth48,005 ratings+37% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (25 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇬🇧GB#4 /100
🇫🇷FR#4 /100
🇮🇳IN#7 /100
🇦🇺AU#13 /100
🇨🇦CA#15 /100
🇩🇪DE#16 /100
🇺🇸US#27 /100
🇧🇷BR#28 /100
🇯🇵JP#72 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#4 now · best #4 · worst #40
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Trusted by millions worldwide, Proton VPN is the world's only free VPN app that is safe to use and respects your privacy.
Our fast VPN offers secure, private and encrypted internet access with advanced security features. Proton VPN also unblocks access to popular websites and streaming platforms.
Proton VPN was created by the CERN scientists behind Proton Mail - the world's largest encrypted email service.
Proton’s secure no-logs VPN offers 24/7 safe and private internet access, and does not record your browsing history, display ads, sell your data to third parties, or limit downloads.… View full description on the official store →
Our fast VPN offers secure, private and encrypted internet access with advanced security features. Proton VPN also unblocks access to popular websites and streaming platforms.
Proton VPN was created by the CERN scientists behind Proton Mail - the world's largest encrypted email service.
Proton’s secure no-logs VPN offers 24/7 safe and private internet access, and does not record your browsing history, display ads, sell your data to third parties, or limit downloads.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 258 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v7.5.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BE, CA, CS, DA +28📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↑ 2.60 → 4.56 (improved 1.96★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 4.40 (improved 1.80★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.33 (improved 0.33★)
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2025-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #7Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
vpn·#7🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.35742★ | 2,339 | 4.35742★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.77034★ | 3,083 | 4.77034★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.46509★ | 4,771 | 4.46509★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.45634★ | 4,707 | 4.45634★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.54512★ | 5,729 | 4.54512★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.43966★ | 9,150 | 4.43966★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.40975★ | 2,626 | 4.40975★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.32998★ | 1,497 | 4.32998★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.56594★ | 48,005 | 4.56594★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Proton VPN: Fast & Secure: 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: 48,005 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Proton VPN make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Proton VPN earns approximately $74K/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 VPN?▴
Proton VPN 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 VPN's BU Score?▴
Proton VPN has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.