VALPAW
57
Quality Score
Solid
VALPAW
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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VALPAW is an iOS app from Thorben Hamann in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 216 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities app, that means established niche player. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$50K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $70K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (67 MB) | +$6K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-8577 |
Total estimate
$50K
👥 Estimated audience size
43K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.6K
Daily active
1.7K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 38/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
6.4
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.57★ across 216 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $3K-$6K.
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:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (216 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v2.4
What's New
- Purchase History comes to VALPAW. Review your Riot payments and recent in-game transactions with clear totals, filters, and sorting.
- Player Settings Snapshots let you save your in-game settings and apply them again later to the active account.… Full release notes →
- Purchase History comes to VALPAW. Review your Riot payments and recent in-game transactions with clear totals, filters, and sorting.
- Player Settings Snapshots let you save your in-game settings and apply them again later to the active account.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- VALPAW
- Developer
- Thorben Hamann
- Bundle ID
- ST.VALPAW
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, KO, RU, ES, TH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Welcome to VALPAW
- Description
- VALPAW is the ultimate companion app for VALORANT players, offering party management, mission tracking, loadout customization, and profile viewing features.
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 growth251 ratings+1221% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (25 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (24 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 Timeline2 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
Introducing VALPAW, your ultimate companion app for VALORANT!
Elevate your VALORANT experience with VALPAW, the all-in-one app designed to enhance your gameplay.
Whether you're managing your party or tracking your progress, VALPAW has you covered.
PARTY & SOCIAL
- Start or stop matchmaking, manage party settings, and handle invites and join requests with ease.
- Invite friends who are online in VALORANT or send invites directly by Riot ID.
- View party members, transfer party leadership, and manage your group without leaving the app.… View full description on the official store →
Elevate your VALORANT experience with VALPAW, the all-in-one app designed to enhance your gameplay.
Whether you're managing your party or tracking your progress, VALPAW has you covered.
PARTY & SOCIAL
- Start or stop matchmaking, manage party settings, and handle invites and join requests with ease.
- Invite friends who are online in VALORANT or send invites directly by Riot ID.
- View party members, transfer party leadership, and manage your group without leaving the app.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 67 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, KO +5📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.71 → 4.57 (improved 0.86★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 3.71 (dropped 0.99★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.75 → 4.70 (improved 0.95★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.63 (dropped 0.37★)
2024-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2024-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for VALPAW: 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 medium confidence: 216 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does VALPAW make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, VALPAW earns approximately $86/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 VALPAW?▴
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Who makes VALPAW?▴
VALPAW is published by Thorben Hamann 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 VALPAW's BU Score?▴
VALPAW has a BU Score of 57/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.