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Phone by Google

93
Quality Score
Transcendent

Phone by Google

High confidence
4.5 ✍️ Editor
✍️ bumetric analysis

This Google-developed app occupies the core phone dialer utility niche, directly competing with pre-installed OEM dialers and third-party communication apps like Truecaller or Hiya, particularly on spam blocking and caller ID features. Its substantial user rating and immense number of reviews indicate established, widespread adoption, signaling a mature product in a high-retention utility category rather than an early-stage growth play. The app’s free monetization model, typical for a core system utility, suggests its value proposition is primarily strategic for Google, likely feeding data or reinforcing ecosystem lock-in rather than direct revenue generation. In the broader tools category, free apps often leverage optional premium features like ad-removal or advanced analytics via IAP, or integrate with subscription services for enhanced functionality. For a dialer, a potential monetization path could involve premium caller ID databases or advanced call recording features offered as a subscription.

BU Score 93 · Transcendent — category-leading momentum. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$700K
per month
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Rating
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Forecast Revenue / mo
Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost
$70K
What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$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
Tools complexity ×0.90 $-5049
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) +$24K
Total estimate $70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 16× MRR multiple
💸 ~3.9× 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%
🏷 Tools category multiple -8%
Mature user base (1M+ ratings) +8%
Final multiple 16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
8977.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1974.5M
Daily active
355.0M

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
📲 Tools engagement ~190 installs / rating
🔁 Tools D30 retention 22%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness 0.18
DAU / MAU 18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Flutter

Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.

Signals we read
🏷 Category context Tools
📦 Compact Android bundle → Native Kotlin
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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
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

Concerning · 55/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks
GrowthFounderQualityRevenueMonetiz.MoatMarketSafety
Growth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
8.2
Product Quality
8.9
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 4.46★ across 47,248,471 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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

MODEL
Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE
Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE
Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
Phone by Google
Developer
Google LLC
Bundle ID
com.google.android.dialer
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Tools
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
Not found
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
Not found
AI annual estimate
Not found
ML model estimate / mo
$16.8K/mo
Top-grossing rank
Not found
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.
🌍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

Google’s official phone calling app is now available to download for the first time. Phone helps you easily connect with family and friends, block spam callers, and know who’s calling before you answer – all with a simple, intuitive design.

<b>Powerful spam protection</b>
See warnings about suspicious callers that help you avoid unwanted calls from spammers, telemarketers and scammers. Block numbers to prevent them from calling you again.

<b>Know who’s calling you</b>
Google’s extensive caller ID coverage lets you know the business that’s calling so that you can answer with confidence.… View full description on the official store →
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📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
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About this analysis
ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, bumetric·Full methodology·High confidence

Why high confidence: 47,248,471 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).

Frequently Asked Questions

4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does Phone by Google make per month?
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Phone by Google earns approximately $16K/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 Phone by Google?
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Who makes Phone by Google?
Phone by Google is published by Google LLC on the Google Play 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 Phone by Google's BU Score?
Phone by Google has a BU Score of 93/100 (Transcendent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.