Messenger vs Locket Widget
Messenger
Meta Platforms, Inc.
App Store
$15.93M/mo
~$191.21M/yr · 1.1B installs
VS
Locket Widget
Locket Labs, Inc.
Google Play
$872.7K/mo
~$10.47M/yr · 33.3M installs
Revenue winner
Messenger wins
+1726% vs other
Installs winner
Messenger wins
+3224% vs other
MAU winner
Messenger wins
+450% vs other
Rating winner
Messenger wins
+2% vs other
Why Messenger is winning
Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Messenger earns roughly 18× more per month than Locket Widget - $15.93M vs $872.7K.
- Premium pricing. Messenger charges $19.99/mo vs Locket Widget's $8.46/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
- Bigger install base. Messenger has ~1.1B lifetime installs vs Locket Widget's ~33.3M - 33.2× the funnel top.
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Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
Messenger
vs
Locket Widget
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$15.93M
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$872.7K
Annual revenue (est.)
$191.21M
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$10.47M
Lifetime installs (est.)
1.1B
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33.3M
Monthly active users (est.)?
24.4M
◀
4.4M
App Store rating
4.66★
◀
4.58★
Total ratings
12.3M
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358K
US grossing rank
-
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Cheapest monthly sub
$19.99
◀
$8.46
IAP tiers detected
2 tiers
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0 tiers
- Category
- Social Networking
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Aug 9, 2011
- Last updated
- May 7, 2026
- File size
- 219.1 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 560.1.0
- Languages
- Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish +23 more
- Category
- Social
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Apr 15, 2022
- Last updated
- May 8, 2026
- File size
- -
- Content rating
- Teen
- Version
- 1.223.1
- Languages
- -
Messenger trajectory
Locket Widget trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Messenger or Locket Widget? v
Messenger earns about $15.93M per month, while Locket Widget earns about $872.7K. That is a 18.3× revenue gap (~$15.06M more per month for Messenger). Annual revenue: Messenger ≈ $191.21M/year, Locket Widget ≈ $10.47M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store / Google Play signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Messenger or Locket Widget? v
Messenger leads with about 1.1B estimated downloads vs 33.3M for Locket Widget - a 33.2× gap. Messenger's App Store downloads are estimated from 12.3M ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Locket Widget reports 10,000,000+ installs on Google Play.
Are Messenger and Locket Widget in the same App Store category on each store and competing for the same money? v
No - Messenger is in Social Networking and Locket Widget is in Social. They share screen-time attention but earn money in different niches: Messenger from social networking monetization patterns, Locket Widget from social.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do Messenger and Locket Widget offer? v
Messenger: IAP range 2 tiers detected. Locket Widget: IAP range $1.99 - $35.99 per item. Messenger runs a "Subscription (~$19.99/mo)" monetization model; Locket Widget runs "Subscription (~$8.46/mo)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Messenger or Locket Widget? v
Messenger edges ahead with ★ 4.7 vs ★ 4.6 (gap of 0.1 stars). Rating volume: Messenger 12.3M ratings, Locket Widget 4K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Messenger vs Locket Widget revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $15.93M for Messenger and $872.7K for Locket Widget are derived from App Store grossing rank / Google Play install ranges, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Social Networking / Social) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
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