ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat
73
Quality Score
Strong
ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat is an iOS app from PlanetRomeo BV in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.4★ across 9,374 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 73: 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
$10.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.7K – $31.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.1K – $72.9K
per month
INDIE 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
$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 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 (73 MB) | +$9K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$41K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$375K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $275K – $475K · 16× MRR multiple
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~3.8× 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 |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
840K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
210K
Daily active
115K
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
$10.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$8.5K – $19.9K
12 months
$8.7K – $31.5K
24 months
$8.1K – $72.9K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 45/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
7.8
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.36★ across 9,374 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $180K-$320K.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (9,374 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v4.3.2
Various bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat
- Developer
- PlanetRomeo BV
- Bundle ID
- com.planetromeo.mobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- ROMEO | Gay, Bi and Trans Dating and Chat
- Description
- The top choice for gay, bi and trans dating. Find dates, make friends and fall in love on the ROMEO website, iOS or Android app. Happy dating!
- 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
- $23.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#13 /100 🇫🇷#46 /100
- 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 growth9,374 ratings+14% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇩🇪DE#13 /100
🇫🇷FR#46 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#13 now · best #6 · worst #57
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
We’ll spare you a long text, let’s explain in human words who we are.
To start we are a dating app like so many others. Whether you’re looking for new connections, friendships, or meaningful relationships, you’ll find your place in our global community. And all this for free without annoying ads!
What makes us special is our community! We began as a typical garage start-up with no investors. Today we are based in liberal Amsterdam & Berlin, and we lead ROMEO with the same spirit for more than 20 years.… View full description on the official store →
To start we are a dating app like so many others. Whether you’re looking for new connections, friendships, or meaningful relationships, you’ll find your place in our global community. And all this for free without annoying ads!
What makes us special is our community! We began as a typical garage start-up with no investors. Today we are based in liberal Amsterdam & Berlin, and we lead ROMEO with the same spirit for more than 20 years.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 73 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 17.6+🔖 v4.3.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, PT +1📂 Social Networking💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.01 → 4.10 (improved 1.09★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.33 (dropped 1.17★)
2013-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2013-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat: 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: 9,374 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat earns approximately $23K/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 ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat?▴
ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat is published by PlanetRomeo BV 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 ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat's BU Score?▴
ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.