ResearchGate
79
Quality Score
Strong
ResearchGate
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ResearchGate is an iOS app from ResearchGate GmbH in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.8★ across 14,176 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Social Networking 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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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
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
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$35K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $400K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~3.5× 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% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
310K
Daily active
170K
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 14,176 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($16K/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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (14,176 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v1.3.7
Here’s what’s new:
• We fixed some bugs and improved overall app stability and performance.
• We fixed some bugs and improved overall app stability and performance.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ResearchGate
- Developer
- ResearchGate GmbH
- Bundle ID
- net.researchgate.ShellApp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $16.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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 growth14,176 ratings+31% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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
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Discover millions of publications right on your device, from anywhere.
CONNECT with 20+ million researchers
Discover other researchers and potential collaborators in your field.
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 30 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.3.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 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 ↑ 2.73 → 4.83 (improved 2.10★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 2.72 (dropped 1.98★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.71 → 4.70 (improved 1.99★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 3.75 (dropped 0.92★)
2018-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2018-05
🚀
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 | 4.79007★ | 1,591 | 4.79007★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.94441★ | 2,896 | 4.94441★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.83333★ | 1,734 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.73144★ | 2,249 | 4.73144★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.80128★ | 1,565 | 4.80128★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.80331★ | 3,086 | 4.80331★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.86226★ | 4,233 | 4.86226★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.65646★ | 1,537 | 4.65646★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83371★ | 14,306 | 4.83371★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ResearchGate: 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: 14,176 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ResearchGate make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ResearchGate earns approximately $16K/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 ResearchGate?▴
ResearchGate is published by ResearchGate GmbH 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 ResearchGate's BU Score?▴
ResearchGate 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.