Steam Mobile
47
Quality Score
Emerging
Steam Mobile
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Steam Mobile is an iOS app from Valve in the News category, currently rated 2.6★ across 10,998 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News app, that means early traction worth watching. 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 tierFREE
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📊 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
$4.2K/mo · 1.1M ratings · 3.0★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
👥 Estimated audience size
1.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
195K
Daily active
87K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% 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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 32/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
3.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
1.6
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.63★ across 10,998 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.61 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (10,998 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.6★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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 · v3.10.9
- Improvements to Steam Frame bluetooth scanning reliability
- Other minor fixes
- Other minor fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Steam Mobile
- Developer
- Valve
- Bundle ID
- com.valvesoftware.Steam
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Steam Store
- Description
- Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
- 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
- $18/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- store.steampowered.com/app/4465230/Pa…
- About page
- store.steampowered.com/about/?snr=1_4…
📈Ratings growth10,998 ratings+7% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 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
With the free Steam Mobile App, you can take Steam with you anywhere. Buy PC games and get the latest game and community news - while protecting your Steam account.
Shop Steam
Browse the Steam catalog of PC games from your phone. Never miss a sale again.
Steam Guard
Protect your Steam account and make sign in faster with two-factor authentication.
• Two-factor authentication to ensure you’re the only one with access to your account
• QR code sign in - Scan a QR code to sign into Steam instead of entering a password or…… View full description on the official store →
Shop Steam
Browse the Steam catalog of PC games from your phone. Never miss a sale again.
Steam Guard
Protect your Steam account and make sign in faster with two-factor authentication.
• Two-factor authentication to ensure you’re the only one with access to your account
• QR code sign in - Scan a QR code to sign into Steam instead of entering a password or…… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 39 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v3.10.9🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2026-03
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v3.10.9
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 200 reviews across 2 markets● 45% positive · ● 16% neutral · ● 40% negative · Rating drift: -0.61★ (declining — recent 50: 2.02★ vs lifetime: 2.63★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.04
🇨🇦 CA
+0.00
Top praise themes
sign into ×3 account ×14 games ×11 phone ×7 game ×7 don ×6 its ×6 reviews ×5
Top complaint themes
into account ×8 log into ×7 doesn work ×7 won let ×6 phone number ×6 sign account ×5 let sign ×5 play games ×5
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.0% Bug mentions: 4% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.5%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.376★ | 750 | 2.376★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.43406★ | 1,016 | 2.43406★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.31916★ | 1,435 | 2.31916★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.40224★ | 2,230 | 2.40224★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.44444★ | 747 | 2.44444★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.50403★ | 1,361 | 2.50403★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.96983★ | 232 | 2.96983★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 1.75691★ | 1,374 | 1.75691★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.63333★ | 11,190 | 2.63333★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Steam Mobile: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 10,998 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Steam Mobile make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Steam Mobile earns approximately $17/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.
What apps are like Steam Mobile?▴
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Who makes Steam Mobile?▴
Steam Mobile is published by Valve 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 Steam Mobile's BU Score?▴
Steam Mobile has a BU Score of 47/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.