SimpleX Chat: secure messenger
55
Quality Score
Solid
SimpleX Chat: secure messenger
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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SimpleX Chat: secure messenger is an iOS app from SimpleX Chat in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.3★ across 239 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 Social Networking 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$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 (158 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
👥 Estimated audience size
21K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.3K
Daily active
2.9K
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
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 38/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
6.1
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.1
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.34★ across 239 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 = $3K-$6K.
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:
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (17 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (239 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 · v6.5.1
New in v6.5-6.5.1.
Public channels - speak freely!
- Reliability: many relays per channel.
- Ownership: you can run your own relays.
- Security: owners hold channel keys.
- Privacy: for owners and subscribers.… Full release notes →
Public channels - speak freely!
- Reliability: many relays per channel.
- Ownership: you can run your own relays.
- Security: owners hold channel keys.
- Privacy: for owners and subscribers.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- SimpleX Chat: secure messenger
- Developer
- SimpleX Chat
- Bundle ID
- chat.simplex.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- BG, CS, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HU, IT, JA, PL, RU, ZH, ES, TH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Be Free
- Description
- SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
- 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
- $327/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/simplexchat
- linkedin.com/company/simplex-chat
- GitHub
- github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blo…
- 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
- github github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blo… · linkedin linkedin.com/company/simplex-chat · twitter twitter.com/simplexchat
- chat@simplex.chat
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1&smp=smp%3A…
- About page
- simplex.chat/about
📈Ratings growth239 ratings+23800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (47 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
SimpleX - the first messaging network without user identifiers of any kind (not even random numbers) - 100% private by design!
Security assessments by Trail of Bits:
2022: https://simplex.chat/blog/20221108-simplex-chat-v4.2-security-audit-new-website.html
2024: https://simplex.chat/blog/20241014-simplex-network-v6-1-security-review-better-calls-user-experience.html
SimpleX Chat features:
- quantum resistant end-to-end encrypted messages, with editing, replies and deletion.
- disappearing messages with opt-out per contact/group.
- message reactions.… View full description on the official store →
Security assessments by Trail of Bits:
2022: https://simplex.chat/blog/20221108-simplex-chat-v4.2-security-audit-new-website.html
2024: https://simplex.chat/blog/20241014-simplex-network-v6-1-security-review-better-calls-user-experience.html
SimpleX Chat features:
- quantum resistant end-to-end encrypted messages, with editing, replies and deletion.
- disappearing messages with opt-out per contact/group.
- message reactions.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 158 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v6.5.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 BG, CS, NL, EN, FI +12📂 Social Networking💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.30 → 4.40 (improved 1.10★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 4.00 (improved 1.00★)
2022-08
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for SimpleX Chat: secure messenger: 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: 239 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does SimpleX Chat make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, SimpleX Chat earns approximately $326/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 SimpleX Chat?▴
SimpleX Chat is published by SimpleX Chat 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 SimpleX Chat's BU Score?▴
SimpleX Chat 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.