Shadowrocket
75
Quality Score
Strong
Shadowrocket
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Shadowrocket is an iOS app from Shadow Launch Technology Limited in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.5★ across 11,896 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 75: 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
$17.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$17.9K – $37.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$22.2K – $66.6K
per month
MID tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$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 (51 MB) | +$239 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7610 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$450K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~10× 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
2.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
470K
Daily active
94K
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
$17.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$16.4K – $27.4K
12 months
$17.9K – $37.5K
24 months
$22.2K – $66.6K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 43/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
7.5
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $12K - $25K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.48★ across 11,716 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.02 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $311K-$554K. Portfolio play ($30K/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 (11,896 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (7 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 · v2.2.87
* feat(vless): enable compact stream buffers on iOS/tvOS to reduce concurrent memory usage
* perf(tester): optimize group tester switch logic to compare current round results
* perf(hysteria): stabilize upload pacing and congestion control for HYBBR… Full release notes →
* perf(tester): optimize group tester switch logic to compare current round results
* perf(hysteria): stabilize upload pacing and congestion control for HYBBR… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Shadowrocket
- Developer
- Shadow Launch Technology Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.liguangming.Shadowrocket
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, JA, KO, RU, ZH, ZH, VI
Company
- Website
- shadowlaunch.com
- Tagline
- Shadowrocket
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $30.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#61 /100 🇦🇺#95 /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
- Socials
- twitter twitter.com/ShadowrocketApp
- b%75gin.%61pp%40g%6d%61il.c%6fm
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth11,896 ratings+23% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇮🇳IN#61 /100
🇦🇺AU#95 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#61 now · best #57 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+0%)
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
Rule based proxy utility client for iPhone/iPad.
- Capture all HTTP/HTTPS/TCP traffic from any applications on your device, and redirect to the proxy server.
- Record and display HTTP, HTTPS, DNS requests from your iOS devices.
- Configure rules using domain match, domain suffix, domain keyword, CIDR IP range, and/or GeoIP lookup.
- Measure traffic usage and network speed on WiFi, cellular, direct and proxy connections.
- Import rule files from URL or iCloud Drive.
- Block ads by domain, user agent rules.
- Local DNS Mapping.
- Work on cellular networks.
- Decrypt HTTPS traffic.… View full description on the official store →
- Capture all HTTP/HTTPS/TCP traffic from any applications on your device, and redirect to the proxy server.
- Record and display HTTP, HTTPS, DNS requests from your iOS devices.
- Configure rules using domain match, domain suffix, domain keyword, CIDR IP range, and/or GeoIP lookup.
- Measure traffic usage and network speed on WiFi, cellular, direct and proxy connections.
- Import rule files from URL or iCloud Drive.
- Block ads by domain, user agent rules.
- Local DNS Mapping.
- Work on cellular networks.
- Decrypt HTTPS traffic.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 51 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v2.2.87🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, JA, KO, RU, ZH +2📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.36 → 4.60 (improved 1.24★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.2.80
2024-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2024-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2024-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 722 reviews across 9 markets● 32% positive · ● 55% neutral · ● 13% negative · Rating drift: -1.02★ (declining — recent 50: 3.46★ vs lifetime: 4.48★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇩🇪 DE
+0.62
🇬🇧 GB
+0.37
🇨🇦 CA
+0.17
🇦🇺 AU
+0.13
🇧🇷 BR
+0.11
🇺🇸 US
+0.11
🇫🇷 FR
+0.10
🇯🇵 JP
+0.08
🇮🇳 IN
+0.06
Top praise themes
please fix ×8 please add ×8 ping test ×6 vpn china ×6 xtls vision ×6 无敌牛逼 比闪电速度还快 ×5 比闪电速度还快 唯一支持ios小组件的vpn ×5 点击网站首页的 一键订阅 ×4
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×13 after update ×10 waste money ×7 please fix ×6 stopped working ×6 didn work ×5 work after ×5 latest version ×5
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 5% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.5%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — shadowlaunch.com
- Mail provider
- Mailgun (transactional)
- Tech stack
- Mailgun
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.09504★ | 242 | 4.09504★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.95082★ | 61 | 3.95082★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.25225★ | 333 | 4.25225★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.63218★ | 87 | 4.63218★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.14035★ | 57 | 4.14035★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.27703★ | 296 | 4.27703★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.46774★ | 62 | 3.46774★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.38919★ | 740 | 4.38919★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.48458★ | 11,870 | 4.48458★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Shadowrocket: 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: 11,896 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Shadowrocket make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Shadowrocket earns approximately $30K/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 Shadowrocket?▴
Shadowrocket is published by Shadow Launch Technology Limited 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 Shadowrocket's BU Score?▴
Shadowrocket has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.