Top 15 Most Profitable Android Apps

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Top Android Apps Ranked by Monthly Revenue

• 1. BetterMe ($5,000,000/month)

  BetterMe generates approximately $5 million monthly as of 2022, making it the highest-earning non-gaming Android app with publicly disclosed founder revenue. The health and wellness platform offers two Android apps on Google Play with 10M+ downloads for Health Coaching and 1M+ downloads for Mental Health, serving 10M monthly active users across 110M+ total installations. BetterMe's traffic split is 60% iOS and 40% Android, built by founder Victoria Repa who scaled from $0 to $5M monthly in just 5 years starting in 2017. The company reached profitability in 3 months after launch through heavy investment in paid traffic via Facebook, Google, and TikTok, combined with viral content marketing and a team of 100 developers for their two apps.

  Sources: YouTube Interview, Partnerkin
• 2. AEZAKMI Group ($1,500,000/month)

  AEZAKMI Group hit $1.5M monthly at their peak in 2024, operating a portfolio of VPN and utility Android apps across both iOS and Android platforms. Founded by Sergey Ovseenko at age 23, the company built this revenue with aggressive pricing at $130/year subscriptions while spending $300-400K monthly on marketing including ASO click farm costs. The team of 45 employees includes 20 developers, 5 designers, 5 media buyers, and 5 app managers, requiring 7-8K incentivized installs daily to maintain top rankings in the US App Store. Their growth strategy centered on building an in-house ASO click farm for app store rankings, using keyword research tools like Sensor Tower and ASOMobile, and targeting new niches with less competition through aggressive pre-landing pages before the App Store.

  Sources: SubHub Podcast
• 3. Cal AI ($400,000+/month)

  Cal AI generates over $400K in monthly recurring revenue as of September 2024, built by founders Zach and Blake who reached this milestone in "just a few months" according to case studies. The AI-powered calorie counting Android app uses advanced AI to simplify nutrition tracking for the fitness market, available on both iOS and Android with heavy presence on TikTok. Cal AI's growth came from influencer marketing at scale targeting a $5 CPM (cost per thousand views) for partnerships, creating high-production viral content designed for 2M+ views, and using referral codes to turn influencers into brand advocates. The TikTok-first content strategy with repost optimization, combined with diversified acquisition mixing paid ads, influencer marketing, and organic growth, drove their rapid revenue growth.

  Sources: Shortimize
• 4. GymStreak ($208,000/month)

  GymStreak generates $208K monthly ($2.5M annual revenue in 2024), growing from $300K in Year 1 to $2.5M in Year 3 while projecting $15-20M ARR in 2-3 years. The AI-powered fitness Android app features automatic workout creation, 3D-animated exercises viewable from any angle, augmented reality exercise projection, and automatic workout periodization, available on both Google Play Store and iOS App Store. Solo founder Joseph Mambwe from Zambia bootstrapped the entire business with zero employees, using only 4 freelance contractors for auxiliary functions while achieving an impressive 1.5x ROAS on day zero, recouping customer acquisition costs almost immediately. The six-month product rebuild to optimize conversion points resulted in 10x revenue growth, driven by highly effective paid marketing on Facebook and TikTok, 3D animation and AR technology as key differentiators, and emphasis on automatic progression that removes user decision points.

  Sources: Hampton, Starter Story, Founder Story
• 5. Candle ($150,000/month)

  Candle crossed $150K monthly revenue in September 2024, implying an annual run rate above $1 million according to TechCrunch. The gamified social Android app helps couples and close friends stay connected through daily prompts, photo updates, and mini-games, reaching 300,000 users (150,000 couples) with 250,000+ monthly active users in just 6 months after launch. Founded by Alex Ruber (ex-Apple engineer) and Parth Chopra (ex-Asana and Twitter engineer), Candle achieved this milestone with backing from Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch and $2M in initial funding from Goodwater Capital, Pioneer Fund, and Progression Fund. The app's viral TikTok content (created by an intern turned marketing lead), freemium model at $9/month with 7-day trial, game mechanics including "Sparks" point system and streak mechanics, and early monetization from launch drove their rapid growth trajectory.

  Sources: TechCrunch
• 6. Songstats (~$145,000/month)

  Songstats generates approximately $145K monthly ($1.74 million yearly revenue) as of 2023-2024, serving over 6,000 paying customers with a 10-person team. The music data analytics Android app aggregates insights from 14+ different music services (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) for artists and record labels, available as both mobile app on iOS and Android plus web dashboard. Founded by Oskar Eichler, former label manager and DJ in Shanghai, Songstats started with $400K initial investment and scaled to $1.74M/year by solving the problem of scattered music analytics across multiple platforms. The team of "music lovers, ultimate frisbee players, and close friends" came together in Bali, Indonesia, building a B2B SaaS model with subscription-based recurring revenue from professional users in the music industry through multi-platform aggregation and industry networking.

  Sources: Starter Story
• 7. Mealime ($65,000/month)

  Mealime grew to $65K monthly revenue before its 2018 exit to private equity, built over 5 years starting in 2013 to become one of the top meal-planning Android apps. The meal planning service helped 5 million people with guided meal suggestions, grocery list generation, and recipe instructions, available on both iOS, Android, and web. Co-founders Jeffrey Bunn and Maria Golikova (married couple) bootstrapped the app through heavy utilization of App Store Optimization (ASO) for organic growth, reducing prices to improve conversion, and focusing on solving a real problem for "entry-level" users. The steady growth trajectory came from app store optimization without heavy marketing spend, eventually leading to acquisition by private equity in 2018.

  Sources: Indie Bites Podcast
• 8. Social Wizard ($60,000/month)

  Social Wizard generates $60K monthly recurring revenue in 2024-2025, having generated over $800K+ total revenue across App Store and Google Play with 600,000+ downloads. The AI-powered "rizz app" helps users with social media interactions and conversations through screenshot analysis and AI-generated responses, serving primarily Android users with a 4.8-star rating and 6,600+ reviews in the US. Founded by Kelechi Onyeama, a 22-year-old Nigerian student in Houston who started learning to code in 2022, Social Wizard jumped from $0 to $2,000 to $25,000 in weeks after viral TikTok success and crossed $600K ARR within 6 months of launch. Growth came from "inherently viral" content marketing showing the app in action on TikToks and Reels, micro-creator partnerships with streamers (first creator paid $120, video got 2M Instagram views + 400K TikTok views for 208x ROI), ASO optimization by changing to "Social Wizard" for discoverability, and early market timing with GPT-4 Vision capabilities.

  Sources: Startup Spells
• 9. Puff Count ($40,000/month)

  Puff Count generates $40K monthly recurring revenue (peaking at $44K MRR before exit), with 200,000+ app downloads across both iOS and Android platforms. The free app designed to help users quit vaping tracks nicotine intake and vaping frequency, achieving a 20-25% conversion rate through hard paywall strategy with pricing A/B tested from $4 to $12. Founded by Steven Cravotta at age 24 with an advertising/marketing degree from Pepperdine University, Puff Count was built without coding experience by hiring developers on Upwork from Eastern Europe and using 99designs for UI/UX. TikTok marketing drove 95% of success, creating entertainment-first content with subtle call-to-action, researching viral vaping content to mirror successful elements, and repurposing top-performing TikTok videos for Facebook ads after validating the idea using Sensor Tower and Google Trends.

  Sources: YouTube Transcript, Starter Story

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• 10. Sweepy ($40,000/month)

  Sweepy generates $40K monthly recurring revenue with 170,000 active users and approximately 5% conversion to paid at $8.99/month premium subscription. The B2C cleaning and home organization Android app helps users maintain cleaning schedules and household chores, unexpectedly becoming popular with the ADHD community for managing daily tasks, available on both Google Play and iOS App Store built with React Native. Founded by married couple Maxence Henneron (computer engineering background from France) and Oxana Ivanchenko (international economics student turned self-taught coder), Sweepy gets 88% of traffic from YouTube through influencer marketing. The app was featured on the App Store first page on day 1, getting approximately 100 sales the first day, with slow initial growth of $100 MRR increases per month while the founders freelanced part-time before going full-time when they had 4 months savings plus sustainable revenue.

  Sources: Indie Hackers, Boring Cash Cow
• 11. Minimalist Phone ($20,000/month)

  Minimalist Phone generates $20K monthly ($240,000 yearly revenue) with initial investment of only $3,100, approaching 500,000 downloads on Google Play. The productivity Android app reduces screen time and combats social media overuse through a monochrome user interface and customized interface designed to discourage excessive phone usage, launched during the COVID-19 pandemic. Solo founder Martin Morávek from Czech Republic/Europe built this Android-first app with background in psychology and machine learning, identifying mental health issues during COVID-19 as inspiration. The problem-first approach, psychology-based design leveraging machine learning principles, minimal investment bootstrapping, organic growth solving a real mental health problem, and strong Google Play optimization drove the app to profitability within the first year.

  Sources: Starter Story
• 12. HabitKit ($15,100/month)

  HabitKit generates $15,100 total monthly revenue ($7,800 MRR from subscriptions plus $7,300/month from lifetime purchases), reaching the $10,000 MRR milestone in late 2024. The habit-tracking Android app features a visually appealing grid-based interface similar to GitHub's contribution graph with widgets, charts, dark mode, and local data storage requiring no sign-in, built using Flutter framework for both iOS and Android. Founded by Sebastian Röhl from Germany, HabitKit generated $51,000 total revenue in 2023 and $110,000 in the first 5 months of 2024 alone, with December 2023 bringing $33,000 revenue after being featured by MKBHD. The app gets approximately 98% of new users directly from App Store and Google Play through search (ASO), supplemented by building in public on Twitter/X with 14,000+ followers, pricing experiments using RevenueCat, content marketing with 42+ blog articles, and leveraging New Year's resolution season when habit trackers see peak demand.

  Sources: Indie Hackers, Sebastian Röhl, RevenueCat
• 13. Everyday.app ($10,000/month)

  Everyday.app approached $10K monthly recurring revenue as of January 2021, growing from $1,200 MRR in January 2019 to $4,800 MRR in December 2019 with steady growth trajectory. The simple and beautiful habit tracker Android app allows users to track daily habits with visual streaks, skip functionality, and emoji support, offering free version up to 3 habits with premium for unlimited tracking available on Google Play Store, iOS App Store, and web. Founded by Joan Boixadós, a Barcelona-based indie maker who started in 2017, Everyday.app was featured as App of the Day on iOS App Store on June 4, 2020, resulting in 12x traffic for a month. Long-term consistency working on the app every single day, iOS 14 Widgets release, macOS Desktop version, watchOS app, SEO and organic growth, and minimal expenses of approximately $60 server costs plus $25/month for tools enabled sustainable bootstrapped growth.

  Sources: Indie Hackers, Dev.to
• 14. AutoForward SMS ($5,400/month)

  AutoForward SMS generates $5,400 monthly recurring revenue (growing from $700 MRR after acquisition), with recent sources indicating approximately $9,300 monthly revenue with $8,600 profit per month. The Android-exclusive app automatically forwards SMS text messages to email addresses and URL endpoints, allowing users to create custom rules for forwarding specific messages, primarily used by businesses and developers for SMS automation. Norbert Hüthmayr, a software engineer from Austria living in the US, acquired the app on Flippa for $7,500 in 2021 (originally founded in 2015 by an Australian owner) and immediately restructured pricing by making the API forwarding feature a paid tier. Corporate subscriptions now make up 75% of revenue with pricing tiers from $1.30 to $22/month based on message volume, achieving 100% organic growth via SEO with no paid marketing by ranking for keywords like "automatic," "forward," and "text message" variations on Google Play Store.

  Sources: Indie Hackers, GetLatka
• 15. Finale To Do ($4,000/month)

  Finale To Do generates $4,000 monthly ($48,000/year) through a no-subscription model with one-time purchases instead of monthly subscriptions, achieving a 500% increase in users in the first month. The mobile task management Android app offers highly customizable and aesthetically pleasing experience without recurring fees, available on both iOS and Android platforms. Founded by Grant Oganyan with a two-person team and $0 startup cost after displacement due to war in Russia, Finale To Do was built after success with their first app, Finale: Daily Habit Tracker. The focus on customization and aesthetics, no-subscription model differentiating from competitors, pivoting from consumer SMB to offer one-time purchases, and building after personal need inspired rapid user adoption and sustainable revenue.

  Sources: Starter Story

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