TextNow: Call + Text Unlimited
88
Quality Score
Excellent
TextNow: Call + Text Unlimited
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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TextNow: Call + Text Unlimited is an iOS app from TextNow, Inc. in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.8★ across 901,173 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 88: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Social Networking app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$3.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.7M – $5.7M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.4M – $8.2M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
🤖Also on Android
$5.4K/mo · 1.6M ratings · 4.6★
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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
📈
Pays back in ~8 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 (417 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$400K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~2.6× 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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
81.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
20.0M
Daily active
11.0M
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
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.5M – $4.7M
12 months
$3.7M – $5.7M
24 months
$4.4M – $8.2M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 56/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.2
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
6.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.4M - $7.7M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 901,173 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 = $63.0M-$112.0M.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (901,173 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
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 · v26.20.0
We did a little fine-tuning this time around to squash some bugs and fix a few crashes. Nothing major, but you might notice things running more smoothly.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TextNow: Call + Text Unlimited
- Developer
- TextNow, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.tinginteractive.usms
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, ES
Company
- Website
- www.textnow.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- 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
- $2.0M ($1.9M – $2.8M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $24.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $20.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#8 /100 🇨🇦#8 /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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "TextNow: Call + Text Unlimited" is estimated to generate approximately $2 million in monthly revenue as of May 2026. Weekly revenue estimates from Sensor Tower for 2025 ranged from a low of $472K (Q2 2025) to a high of $697K (Q4 2025), suggesting a monthly revenue range of $1.888 million to $2.788 million. TextNow, Inc. as a whole reported an annual revenue of $130 million in 2023.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, TextNow founder claims, Google Play Store
📈Ratings growth901,173 ratings+16% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (11 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇺🇸US#8 /100
🇨🇦CA#8 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#8 now · best #7 · worst #100
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
Call and text for free with TextNow, the free phone service with over 100 million users. Get nationwide coverage with unlimited talk and text, plus 5G data—starting at $0/month. Staying connected doesn’t have to be expensive.
What makes us different?
• No phone bill, no fixed contracts, and no hidden fees
• Get a free local phone number or keep your own for a private second line or business use.
• Flexible data options: daily, weekly, or monthly unlimited data access.
• Low-cost international calling to 230+ countries
FREE TALK & TEXT NATIONWIDE: NO PHONE BILL, NO FIXED CONTRACTS… View full description on the official store →
What makes us different?
• No phone bill, no fixed contracts, and no hidden fees
• Get a free local phone number or keep your own for a private second line or business use.
• Flexible data options: daily, weekly, or monthly unlimited data access.
• Low-cost international calling to 230+ countries
FREE TALK & TEXT NATIONWIDE: NO PHONE BILL, NO FIXED CONTRACTS… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 417 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v26.20.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, ES📂 Social Networking💰 Paid
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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
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.79 → 4.79 (improved 2.00★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.80 → 4.80 (improved 2.00★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #11Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
messaging·#11🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — textnow.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Anthropic · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · OpenAI · Stripe
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.71622★ | 77,832 | 4.71622★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.79234★ | 904,034 | 4.79234★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for TextNow: Call + Text Unlimited: 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: 901,173 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does TextNow make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, TextNow earns approximately $20K/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 TextNow?▴
TextNow is published by TextNow, Inc. 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 TextNow's BU Score?▴
TextNow has a BU Score of 88/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.