VA: Health and Benefits
81
Quality Score
Excellent
VA: Health and Benefits
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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VA: Health and Benefits is an iOS app from US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the Medical category, currently rated 4.8★ across 319,361 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Medical 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~3.2y 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 |
| ⚙ Medical complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$45K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 20× MRR multiple
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~0.6× build cost (under-water)
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% |
| 🏷 Medical category multiple | +12% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
17.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.3M
Daily active
870K
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
| 📲 Medical engagement | ~55 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Medical D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$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 · 54/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.0
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.2
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.81★ across 319,361 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.75 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (319,361 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v2.76.0
You can now view and manage benefit overpayments.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- VA: Health and Benefits
- Developer
- US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Bundle ID
- gov.va.vamobileapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Medical
- Content rating
- 17+
- 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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Medical
- 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: HIGH
The iOS app "VA: Health and Benefits" is provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs as a free service to veterans. It offers features such as managing health care appointments, refilling prescriptions, and checking claims status. There is no public information indicating that the app generates revenue through in-app purchases, subscriptions, or advertising, as it is a government service.
Sources mentioned: VA News, The American Legion, GovCIO Media & Research, The Federal Newswire, Newsweek, DigitalVA, Reddit, Google Play
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.04★ · 65.3% 5★ · 12.2% 1★
5★32 (65%)
4★4 (8%)
3★2 (4%)
2★5 (10%)
1★6 (12%)
+2,008 ratings/week
Praise: great ×12 excellent ×4 best ×4 love ×2 recommend ×1Complaints: hate ×2 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ VA App
This VA app is extremely easy to use and self explanatory after a few minutes of use! This has made things so much pleasant !!…
★★★★★ DC VA Clinic support
Outstanding services. It saves a lot of time for the doctor and patient that we can communicate through the app.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ I DON’T LIKE TEXTING
I hate texting and messaging, I am old and want to TALK with a human being!…
★☆☆☆☆ Will Not Send Medication
I am getting jerked around by VA!!…
📈Ratings growth319,361 ratings+74% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (22 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
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 official VA: Health & Benefits app, you can manage your VA health care, benefits, and payments from your mobile phone or tablet.
Features include:
Biometric sign-in
- Use your phone’s built-in security features—like fingerprint and face recognition—to securely access your information.
Health care tools
- Refill and track your VA prescriptions.
- Send and receive secure messages from your VA health care team.
- Review appointments and add them to your calendar.
- Get your records for VA vaccines, such as COVID-19.
Benefits tools
- Check your disability rating.… View full description on the official store →
Features include:
Biometric sign-in
- Use your phone’s built-in security features—like fingerprint and face recognition—to securely access your information.
Health care tools
- Refill and track your VA prescriptions.
- Send and receive secure messages from your VA health care team.
- Review appointments and add them to your calendar.
- Get your records for VA vaccines, such as COVID-19.
Benefits tools
- Check your disability rating.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 30 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.76.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Medical💰 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 ↑ 4.10 → 4.81 (improved 0.71★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.09 → 4.80 (improved 0.71★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.50 (dropped 0.83★)
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 506 reviews across 3 markets● 77% positive · ● 5% neutral · ● 17% negative · Rating drift: -0.75★ (declining — recent 50: 4.06★ vs lifetime: 4.81★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.50
🇦🇺 AU
+0.44
🇩🇪 DE
+0.35
Top praise themes
easy navigate ×17 user friendly ×11 one place ×10 getting better ×9 care team ×7 primary care ×6 top notch ×6 easy access ×5
Top complaint themes
apply travel ×5 travel claim ×4 veteran germany ×4 user friendly ×3 travel reimbursement ×3 please fix ×3 fill date ×3 customer service ×3
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.875★ | 24 | 4.875★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.33333★ | 3 | 3.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.80769★ | 52 | 4.80769★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.59302★ | 86 | 4.59302★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.88★ | 25 | 4.88★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.73913★ | 46 | 4.73913★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81303★ | 322,406 | 4.81303★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for VA: Health and Benefits: 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: 319,361 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does VA make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, VA earns approximately $2.1K/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 VA?▴
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Who makes VA?▴
VA is published by US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 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 VA's BU Score?▴
VA has a BU Score of 81/100 (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.