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Kik Messaging & Chat App earns about
$15.21M/month
range $8.36M – $22.05M · $182.48M/year
Live data · refreshed every hour
Per Day
$506.9K
$278.8K – $735.0K
Per Week
$3.55M
$1.95M – $5.14M
Per Month
$15.21M
$8.36M – $22.05M
Per Year
$182.48M
$100.36M – $264.60M
Lifetime
$456.20M
$250.91M – $661.49M
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A specific clone-and-improve plan for Kik Messaging & Chat App
Auto-generated from this app's real revenue ($15.21M/month · $182.48M/year), monetization model, rating signals and category. Every line is calibrated to this app, not generic advice.
65/100
Opportunity
30/100
Cloneability
$6
Revenue / install
✓ Features to copy
- subscription paywall (~$14.99/mo) - proven monetization
- in-app purchase tier ladder for upsells
⚡ Improve / fix
- subscription is $14.99/mo - undercut by 30-50% to win price-sensitive users
🛠 MVP scope
- core feature loop
- subscription gating
- free-tier limits
- trial period
- analytics
💰 Pricing recommendation
Kik Messaging & Chat App is at $14.99/mo. Consider going slightly lower with a longer free trial (14 days) to win price-aware users.
🔡 App Store title ideas
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📺 TikTok / ad hook angles
- "I tried Kik Messaging & Chat App for 30 days - here's what I'd do differently"
- "Why Kik Messaging & Chat App costs $14.99/mo when ours costs $8.99"
- "The social networking app Kik Messaging & Chat App won't tell you these 3 things"
Monetization
Subscription (~$14.99/mo)Revenue mix (estimated)
- Subscriptions ~72%
- One-time IAP ~22%
- Ads ~6%
Paying users (est.)
72.5M installs · 43.3% active · 2.3% pay
In-App Purchases 10
- Monthlyest. Special Offer $14.99 /month
- Weeklyest. Ad Free $2.99 /week ~$12.99/mo
- Annual Ad free (annual) $32.99 /year ~$2.75/mo
- One-time 3 Chat Credits $0.99 one-time
- One-time 500 Live Credits Offer $1.99 one-time
- One-time 500 Live Credits $4.99 one-time
- One-time 2000 Live Credits $14.99 one-time
- One-time 3700 Live Credits $24.99 one-time
10 tiers scraped live from the App Store.
App Details
Pulled from the App Store- Current Version
- 17.12.1
- Released
- Apr 10, 2010
- Last Updated
- May 5, 2026
- File Size
- 260.2 MB
- Required OS
- 15.0
- Content Rating
- 17+
- Category
- Social Networking
- Price
- Free
- Currency
- USD
- Languages
- Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese
- Developer
- Medialab - Kik
What's new in v17.12.1
Improvements & Bug fixes
Fun Numbers - share these
$6
every second
$352
every minute
$21.1K
every hour
$506.9K
every day
- ☕ Buys 101K $5 coffees every day
- 👨💻 Pays for 1K senior engineer salaries per year
- 🚗 Earns enough for 4K Tesla Model 3s annually
- ⏱️ Earns the price of a coffee in 1 seconds
12-Month Revenue Trajectory
Modeled from grossing rank, app score, and update cadence. Hover any point to see the value. Real growth depends on retention, marketing, and seasonality.
Estimated Installs
72.5M
estimated from 483,624 ratings
Active Users (MAU est.)
31.4M
43.3% of installs · SOCIAL_NETWORKING category benchmark
Rating
4.26 ★
484K reviews
Monetization
Subscription (~$14.99/mo)
Rating Distribution
5★
333K
4★
53K
3★
36K
2★
16K
1★
46K
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Frequently Asked About Kik Messaging & Chat App
How much money does Kik Messaging & Chat App make on the App Store? ⌄
Kik Messaging & Chat App has an estimated App Store revenue of $15.21M per month (~$182.48M per year, $506.9K per day) with a likely range of $8.36M to $22.05M. This includes earnings from in-app purchases, subscription revenue, ads and any paid downloads - all directional estimates from public App Store signals, not private Apple financial data.
How many App Store downloads does Kik Messaging & Chat App get? ⌄
Apple does not publish exact App Store download counts. Using public ratings (484K reviews), grossing rank, category position and the standard 1:75 ratings-to-downloads ratio, Rev.now estimates about 72.5M total iOS downloads for Kik Messaging & Chat App - and roughly 31.4M monthly active users on iPhone and iPad.
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What in-app purchases and subscriptions does Kik Messaging & Chat App offer on iOS? ⌄
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