USPS Mobile®
89
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This Business category app occupies a unique niche, providing essential postal services directly to consumers. Its primary competition isn't other apps, but rather the traditional USPS website and physical Post Office locations, along with third-party package tracking services that offer broader carrier support. The app’s exceptionally high rating across well over a million reviews, combined with its consistent, albeit modest, monthly revenue, signals strong user adoption and deep integration into daily routines. This indicates a mature product with established traction, likely past its initial growth spurt and now focused on retention and incremental feature development. For a freemium app in this utility-focused category, a common monetization observation is the potential for premium tiers offering advanced tracking features, package insurance options, or even expedited customer support, leveraging the high user engagement without disrupting the core free utility.
BU Score 89 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. 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.
💰 Forecast monthly revenue
—/mo
Founder-confirmed monthly revenue
BIG tierFREE
💡 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
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
1,695,731 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
506
since Dec 2025
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BU Investment Matrix
High risk · 40/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)structural problemsGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
0.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.8
- 💰 Revenue: Pre-revenue or unknown — $0 - $0/mo · BIG tier · high confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.77★ across 1,695,731 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 572d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — rating drift -1.35 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (572d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: No verified revenue — acquisition only makes sense for tech / userbase / brand.
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 (1,695,731 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v5.36.42
Maintenance and bug fixes
- Enhanced Click-N-Ship
- Fixes for Post Card Prices
- Enhanced Click-N-Ship
- Fixes for Post Card Prices
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- USPS Mobile®
- Developer
- United States Postal Service
- Bundle ID
- com.usps.uspsmobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $11.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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.
📈Ratings growth1,765,881 ratings+394952% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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
Access popular USPS.com® tools on the go with the “USPS Mobile® app: calculate shipping prices (limitations apply), find a Post Office™, look up a ZIP Code™, schedule a next-day pickup, request USPS to hold your mail, access Informed Delivery® to track packages and digitally preview incoming mail, and more.
WHAT CAN IT DO?
The USPS Mobile app allows you to:
• Check the status of shipments sent using Priority Mail®, Priority Mail Express®, Certified Mail®, and certain other delivery services. Nickname your shipments and sign up for text and email alerts to notify you of the delivery status.… View full description on the official store →
WHAT CAN IT DO?
The USPS Mobile app allows you to:
• Check the status of shipments sent using Priority Mail®, Priority Mail Express®, Certified Mail®, and certain other delivery services. Nickname your shipments and sign up for text and email alerts to notify you of the delivery status.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 20 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v5.36.42🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
→ 30 days after: reviews +21,414 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +38 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.12 → 4.70 (improved 1.58★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +38 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +197 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.71★ · reviews +197 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −2.03★ · reviews +176 low · multiple changes
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.17 → 3.71 (dropped 0.46★)
→ 30 days after: rating −2.01★ · reviews +170 low · multiple changes
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.98★ · reviews +168 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.17 (dropped 0.63★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.98★ · reviews +168 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 489 reviews across 6 markets● 54% positive · ● 17% neutral · ● 29% negative · Rating drift: -1.35★ (declining — recent 50: 3.42★ vs lifetime: 4.77★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇧🇷 BR
+0.30
🇯🇵 JP
+0.24
🇺🇸 US
+0.21
🇬🇧 GB
+0.07
🇦🇺 AU
-0.02
🇩🇪 DE
-0.25
Top praise themes
informed delivery ×18 post office ×16 hold mail ×14 see mail ×8 mail hold ×6 mail packages ×6 mail coming ×6 see coming ×5
Top complaint themes
post office ×11 informed delivery ×11 tracking number ×9 missing mail ×8 lost package ×7 user friendly ×7 mail delivered ×6 change password ×6
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.54505★ | 910 | 4.54505★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.78629★ | 1,357 | 4.78629★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.60156★ | 5,002 | 4.60156★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.5589★ | 764 | 4.5589★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.50169★ | 1,469 | 4.50169★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.62722★ | 507 | 4.62722★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.57617★ | 512 | 4.57617★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.76722★ | 1,766,671 | 4.76722★ this version |
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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 |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
| ⚙ 16.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$100K |
Total estimate
$175K
👥 Estimated audience size
77.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.4M
Daily active
1.0M
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 📅 16.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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
| 📦 App bundle size | 20 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Business |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
77%
Last shipped 2025-02-28 · 579 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 1y 7mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| • 17y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for USPS Mobile®: 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: 1,695,731 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow many users does USPS Mobile® have?▴
Estimated audience: ~77.0M lifetime downloads, ~3.4M monthly active users, and ~1.0M daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like USPS Mobile®?▴
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What is USPS Mobile® built with?▴
Our heuristic places USPS Mobile® on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is USPS Mobile® still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (77% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was USPS Mobile® last updated?▴
USPS Mobile® last shipped a new version on 2025-02-28 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes USPS Mobile®?▴
USPS Mobile® is published by United States Postal Service 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 USPS Mobile®'s BU Score?▴
USPS Mobile® has a BU Score of 89/100 (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.