'Good, but don't pay': a video chat app that rides an adult site's name, under 10K installs in two and a half months
What it is A video chat app from a Vietnamese team, published under a UK care company's name, with 18+ installs on 1 vs 1 video chat. The name borrows from xvideos and xnxx, and it makes money from interstitial ads and in-app coin purchases.
Why it took off It barely did. The adult-site-style name picked up traffic from people searching adult terms in the store. Add an account that occasionally shifted traffic its way for a few days (late October it jumped +1,215 in a single day), and it briefly landed at the tail of Indonesia's Dating free chart before falling back to 40 to 50 installs a day.
DWhat you can take from it We don't recommend copying this. The keyword group is already packed with a dozen or more apps, and adult-site names can be pulled at any time. The useful lesson is that it served as a control group: test the same code across several apps, concentrate budget on whichever converts best, and check the entry bar for emerging-market Dating free charts before building a localized, legitimate video dating app.
- Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-08-22 · 11-05 installs 9,919
Android · Total installs worldwide Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-05 (8 days, 8 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
XVXX Call is a Google Play app with 18+ installs, billed as '1 vs 1 video chat.' It launched in Aug 22, reached about 9,900 installs by 11-05, and gained 2,040 over the last 7 days. Six-tenths of those 2,040 came from a single day in late October, and afterward it held at 40 to 50 a day. It isn't a product that broke out. It's the least-trafficked app in a same-name app cluster run by a Vietnamese team. This piece covers what it is, where its traffic came from, why a sibling app launched the same day reached 5 times its installs, and why we don't recommend following it.
One review, answered three weeks later
In October 8, a user named Pravin Gopale left an English review under XVXX Call: 'good apk but don't pay money,' meaning the app is decent but don't spend on it. The developer finally replied in late October 30 with 'Thanks for your feedback! Glad you enjoy the app.'
The day of the reply was also the day the app gained the most in its two-plus months: +1,215 installs in one day (Google Play install count), and it briefly reached #84 on Indonesia's Dating free chart. Reviews usually go unanswered, but on the day traffic spiked someone went through and replied to them one by one. That's probably how they run it (our inference).
On the page it has 4.8 stars and 131 reviews (Play Indonesia page, 11-06). The positive reviews visible are very short: 'great job with developing,' 'this aap is actually best.' The reviewers mostly have Indian names, and the developer's replies repeat the same polite lines. Under 10K installs yet 131 reviews, a ratio of about 1.3%, which is high. It suggests the app prompts users for ratings in-app (our inference).
What it actually is
The store description repeats '1v1 video chat,' 'random video chat' and 'live video call' over a dozen times. It's written for search engines. The closing paragraph is a disclaimer: the app is for users 18 and over, and it does not promote or provide prostitution, companionship, paid dating or adult entertainment. Having that paragraph suggests they know what users are actually after. It contains ads, and in-app coins cost $0.99–7.49 each.
The developer is listed as UK HOME CARE LIMITED, with an address in Carshalton south of London, the name of a UK home-care company. The support email is [email protected], a Vietnamese name. The privacy policy is hosted on Google Sites, and its URL contains the Vietnamese word 'trang-chủ' (homepage). The same account also has four nearly identical video chat apps and an unrelated PaintMate Home. The likely setup: a borrowed or purchased UK company developer account, with the work done by a Vietnamese team (our inference).
The Oct 22 release notes read "child safety standards in-app feedback, camera fix." Adding that entry point suggests Google Play's review is watching this kind of app.
From the outside, we can't tell whether the videos in the app show real people, are pre-recorded or are AI-generated. Not verified.
Where the traffic came from
The name. XVXX is a blend of xvideos and xnxx, two adult sites. People really do search Google for '"xvxx call" video chat.' One Play link carries utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term="xvxx call" video chat, but it lands on two sibling apps from the same account, XXVX 1v1 and XVXX Hub. In other words, even the search traffic for the name 'XVXX Call' is being split with its own siblings.
The few days it got traffic. Its install curve came in steps (figures before 10-28 are estimates from the third-party AppstoreSpy; later figures are Google Play install counts):
| Timeline | Total installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| 08-22 | — | Launched |
| 09-13 | 3,220 | Early September, about 450 a day (est.) |
| 09-14 to 10-04 | 4,360 | 14 to 200 a day (est.) |
| 10-05 to 10-11 | 6,833 | About 350 a day (est.) |
| 10-12 to 10-29 | 7,879 | 1 to 105 a day |
| Around 10-30 | 9,094 | +1,215 in one day |
| 11-03 | 9,824 | +730 in one day |
| 11-05 | 9,919 | The first two days only +54 and +41 |
It jumped by a thousand in one day, then fell back to dozens within a few days. That doesn't look like word of mouth. It looks like someone concentrated paid acquisition, traffic swaps or ad-network buys (our inference; we didn't find the specific channel).
Low-bar charts. Indonesia, Philippines and India's Dating free charts let an app reach the tail end with around a thousand installs a day. 10-29 It ranked #84 in Indonesia, #118 in the Philippines and #145 in India. Later it dropped off the Philippine and Indian charts, and in Indonesia it slid steadily to #146 at 11-05 (Google Play Dating category free chart). It never charted in Top Grossing.
No presence on TikTok, X or in the press. Searching 'xvxx call' on X over the past ~60 days returned zero posts. What you can find online are auto-generated pages from APKPure, best.dating and AppBrain (11-06).
Why its sibling, launched the same day, reached 5 times the installs
Five apps under the same developer account (Google Play install counts, 11-06):
| App | Launched | Total installs | 7-day gain |
|---|---|---|---|
| XVX Live - 1v1 Video Chat | 05-22 | 178k | +4,406 |
| XVXX Live - Live Video Chat | 08-23 | 52k | +20,784 |
| XVXX Hub - Random Video Chat | 08-26 | 37k | +2,050 |
| XXVX 1v1 Video Chat | 09-05 | 16k | +9,165 |
| XVXX Call | 08-22 | 9,919 | +2,040 |
XVXX Call and XVXX Live launched a day apart, with the same keyword and the same template. Over two-plus months, Live reached more than 5 times Call's installs. In the last week, Live gained twenty thousand and Call gained two thousand. The products are identical; the only difference is which app the account gave its traffic budget to. The tactic: a single keyword with several suffixes (Live, Hub, Call), each published as its own app, occupying multiple spots in search results at once. Whichever converts best gets the budget. Call simply lost this round of selection.
Going further out, Play has more than 17 dating and video chat apps whose names contain xvx, xvxx or xxvx, spread across more than 7 developer accounts. The top single apps range from 250k to 350k installs, and the support emails are almost all Gmail accounts with Vietnamese names. XVXX Call is one of the smallest in this row.
The real competitors are in a different world. Azar (2013 years old, about 290M installs) and OmeTV (2015 years old, about 250M) have real matching and moderation and rely on subscriptions. Tango, Chamet and Tumile have streamer supply and rely on coins, and they regularly appear on country Top Grossing charts. Indonesia's local TemChat Pro launched in June, has about 446k installs, and reached #1 on Indonesia's Dating free chart without a suggestive name.
Where the money comes from
Interstitial ads are the main revenue source, with in-app coin purchases as a secondary one. Reviews already include people warning others not to pay. It has never charted in Top Grossing, and at 10K installs its revenue is negligible. For this cluster, Call's value isn't that it makes money itself. It's that it takes up one more name and gives the account a spare app it can scale up at any time (our inference).
If it were you
In one sentence: we don't recommend following it. It's a loser among copycats, the keyword group is already filled by more than a dozen apps across seven or more accounts, and using an adult-site name as an app name violates Google Play's rules on sexual content and misleading metadata, so the app and its account could both be removed at any time.
Who it suits: teams that have a batch of developer accounts they can drop at any time, ready-made paid acquisition and ad-monetization capability, and the tolerance to lose a whole batch to takedowns. They don't need this article.
Who it doesn't suit: indie developers and small teams who register developer accounts under their own name or company. You have no accounts to throw away, and one ban takes everything.
What you can take away: the most valuable thing about this app is that it served as a control group. First, with the same code, the same keyword and launches a day apart, results can differ by 5 times, and the deciding factor is traffic allocation, not the product. This holds for legitimate products too: split one codebase into several apps by country or language, test each with a small budget, then concentrate spending on whichever converts best. Second, the Dating free charts in Indonesia, the Philippines and India let an app reach the tail end with a thousand installs a day, so before launch check the entry bar for your target country and category.
How to acquire users: if you want to build video dating in Southeast or South Asia, learn from TemChat Pro: local language, localized name and creative, starting from store search and the low-bar Dating free charts, and buying traffic in markets where acquisition is cheap. The real problem to solve is that matches are real people who want to talk, and that is the reason anyone pays.
Time window: for apps like XVXX, the window is 'before Google cleans them up,' and the space is already crowded. For anyone who wants to learn multi-app testing and chart entry thresholds, there is no deadline.
What would show we got it wrong: if over the next few weeks this account shifts its budget to Call and it climbs into the top 50 of Indonesia's or the Philippines' Dating free chart, that would mean it just hasn't had its turn yet, not that it has been eliminated. Even then, the ban risk doesn't go away, and the conclusion stands.
Data and sources
- Google Play store page (Indonesia), reviews, install counts and the Dating category free chart, as of 11-06. Daily installs before 10-28 are estimates from the third-party AppstoreSpy.
- Play link with utm_term="xvxx call" video chat; auto-generated pages on APKPure and best.dating.
- X search for 'xvxx call' over the past ~60 days, 11-06.
- Places marked "est.", "inferred", or "unverified" are estimates and inferences.
Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
- Competitors
Name Where Launched Scale How it differs from this one Sibling apps under the same account: XVXX Live / XVXX Hub / XXVX 1v1 / XVX Live (UK HOME CARE LIMITED) Android 2026-05-22 to 2026-09-05 52k / 37k / 16k / 178k installs, +21k over 7 days / +2 thousand / +9 thousand / +4 thousand Same template and keyword, only the suffix changes; Call received the least traffic among them XVX/XVXX/XXVX clusters on other accounts (HEALTHCARE QUALITY CARE, DIGITAL PLANT POT, Veyora Labs, Random Video Labs 2026 and others) Android starting 2026-01 17–19 apps, 10k–350k installs each Same playbook, likely the same Vietnamese team, just using different spelling variants and accounts Azar Android 2013 About 290M installs on Play, charted in Top Grossing Real-person matching + moderation + subscriptions; no evidence of real-person supply for Call, which relies on ads OmeTV Android 2015 About 250M installs Real random video network and brand; Call is a keyword wrapper Tango / Chamet / Tumile and other host-paid video apps Android 2010–2019 Tens of millions to hundreds of millions of installs, regulars on country Top Grossing charts Has streamer supply and earns via coins; Call has never charted in Top Grossing TemChat Pro Android 2026-06 About 446k installs, #1 on Indonesia's Dating free chart Localized Indonesian brand, not relying on suggestive names Omegle-alternative websites (randomvideochat.me, vidizzy, etc.) Web Unknown Not verified No install, SEO-driven - Where users come from
- Verified Play Store search for an adult-term spelling variant (XVXX): the Play link that Jina returned carries utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term="xvxx call" video chat, and it lands on the sibling XXVX 1v1 / XVXX Hub under the same developer, which shows the term has search volume and that same-developer apps split the traffic
- Inferred Same developer rotating volume bursts (paid acquisition, ad networks, or traffic swaps; channel unconfirmed): 10-05~10-11 about 350/day, 10-30 single-day +1,215, 11-03 +730, then falling back to a few dozen a day; over the same period the sibling XVXX Live and XXVX 1v1 gained 7–5 times as much in 10 days; ad libraries don't track it
- Verified Bottom of the small-country dating Top Free charts: 10-29 Indonesia 84, Philippines 118, India 145, then sliding to 11-05 Indonesia 146
- Inferred In-app rating prompt: about 9,900 installs for 131 reviews and 4.8 stars (about 1.3%); the positive reviews are short Indian-name sentences, and the developer replies with templates
- Verified Borrowed UK company as the developer account: developer UK HOME CARE LIMITED (Carshalton address, UK phone number), support email [email protected], privacy page path in Vietnamese: trang-chủ
- Inferred TikTok / X / media: x-radar shows 60 posts in 0 days; search results only return auto-generated pages from APKPure, best.dating and similar
Why XVXX Call - 1v1 Video Chat (com.xvxxcall.videochat) got traction at all
Channel: Google Play | Developer: UK HOME CARE LIMITED | Released: 2026-08-22 (released_reset=False, never reset) | Research date: 2026-11-06
Bottom line
It basically didn't take off. It is a small app in the Vietnamese "XVX / XVXX / XXVX" adult-term-adjacent matrix, and within the 5 template-identical packages under the UK HOME CARE account it has the fewest installs: about 9,900 cumulative over 76 days. Its growth comes in small pulses (before 9-13, 10-05–10-11, 10-30–11-03), and each one falls back to a few dozen a day within days. The most recent pulse added +1,215 in a single day on 10-30, which briefly put it at #84 on the Indonesia dating Top Free chart before it slid to #146. The "7 days +2,040" figure in the recall data is the tail of that pulse. Over the past few weeks, the same account's volume went mainly to XVXX Live and XXVX 1v1, and this package got only a fraction.
1. What it is
- An English-language, templated "1v1 video chat + random video chat" dating app, 18+ downloads (Users Interact, In-App Purchases), with ads, and in-app purchases of $0.99–7.49 per item (Play page gl=id, 2026-11-06; googleplay library app_snap).
- The description is pure SEO copy: 1v1 video chat / random video chat / live video call repeated over and over, ending with a disclaimer saying the app does not promote prostitution, escorting, sugar dating, and so on. Writing that disclaimer shows the team knows exactly what kind of traffic it is chasing.
- Support email [email protected] (a Vietnamese name); privacy policy hosted on Google Sites at the Vietnamese path "trang-chủ" (homepage); website ukhomecare.blogspot.com; the developer address on Play is 109 Stavordale Road, Carshalton SM5 1BU, UK, phone +44 7412 291383 (Play page). By name, the developer entity is a UK home-care company that has nothing to do with the product, so this is a borrowed or bought developer account.
- The latest version 10-22 was released (release note: "Child safety standards in-app feedback / Fix camera"), and the Play page shows another update on 11-03. The "child safety standards" feedback entry suggests Play review is watching this category of app.
2. Growth data
| Timeline | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 08-22 | Launched | googleplay app |
| 09-03 | Earliest text review | Play page |
| As of 09-13 | Cumulative 3,220, about 450/day in early September | app_day_ext (AppstoreSpy estimate) |
| 09-14~10-04 | 14–200 per day, cumulative 4,360 | Same as above |
| 10-05~10-11 | About 350/day, cumulative 6,833 | Same as above |
| 10-12~10-29 | 1–105 per day, cumulative 7,879 | Same as above |
| 10-30 | Single-day +1,215, reaching 9,094 | app_day_ext / app_day |
| 11-03 | +730 (reaching 9,824) | googleplay app_day |
| 11-04, 11-05 | +54, +41, reaching 9,919 | Same as above |
- Store tier 5,000+; the Play Indonesia page shows 4.8 stars and 131 reviews (129 on mobile). Our library captured the US-store detail page, where the rating is blank (app_snap, 11-03–11-05), the same as the sibling XVXX Hub; the US store may not display a rating (unverified).
- Charts (googleplay chart_rank, all DATING Top Free): 10-29 Indonesia #84, Philippines #118, India #145; 10-30 Indonesia #86, Philippines #130, India #166; then the Philippines and India dropped off, and Indonesia went #97 → #105 → #130 → #134 → #137 → #146 (11-05). It has never charted in Top Grossing. The data card's "no chart records, countries covered 0" only means it was off the charts on 11-06; in the week before, it was actually sitting at the bottom of the Indonesia, Philippines and India charts.
3. Competitors
3.1 sibling packages from the same developer (UK HOME CARE LIMITED, googleplay library app_profile, 11-06)
| Package | Launched | Total installs | 7-day gain |
|---|---|---|---|
| XVX Live - 1v1 Video Chat | 05-22 | 178,383 | +4,406 |
| XVXX Live - Live Video Chat | 08-23 | 52,116 | +20,784 |
| XVXX Hub - Random Video Chat | 08-26 | 37,410 | +2,050 |
| XXVX 1v1 Video Chat | 09-05 | 16,370 | +9,165 |
| XVXX Call (this product) | 08-22 | 9,919 | +2,040 |
Call and XVXX Live launched one day apart, with the same term and the same template; over two-plus months Live has gained more than 5 times as much. This suggests the account's volume budget has consistently favored other packages, and Call is just a backup holding the name.
3.2 other accounts in the same matrix
The library has 17–19 dating/video-chat packages with xvx/xvxx/xxvx in the name, spread across 7–9 developer accounts (HEALTHCARE QUALITY CARE LTD, DIGITAL PLANT POT LTD, Veyora Labs, Random Video Labs 2026, Live Match Labs 2026, Ban Care ApS and others), totaling several million installs, with the top single package at 25–350k. Support emails are all Vietnamese-name gmail addresses (see the matrix report on play_com.xvxxhub.randomvideochat / play_com.livevideochat.xxvxlive / play_com.trending.xvxxvideochat). Veyora Labs also has a same-named "XVXX - 1v1 Video Chat" (05-13, about 250k installs).
3.3 Legitimate random video / paid-host video
- Azar (2013, about 290M installs on Play, charts in Top Grossing) and OmeTV (2015, about 250M): real-person matching, moderated, monetized through subscriptions or gems.
- Paid-host video apps such as Tango, Chamet and Tumile: they have a host supply, earn through coins, and are regulars on country Top Grossing charts.
- TemChat Pro (2026-06, about 446k, #1 on Indonesia dating Top Free): localized video dating for Indonesia.
- Web-based Omegle alternatives (randomvideochat.me, vidizzy, etc.): no install needed, SEO-driven.
(Scale taken from the library data in the existing matrix report.)
Compared with these, XVX Call has no brand, no evidence of a supply side, and no Top Grossing ranking; its only difference is the name.
4. Where users come from
- Play Store search for adult terms (confirmed): "XVXX" is a blend of the xvideos / xnxx spellings. Jina searched "XVXX Call" video chat, and the returned Play links carry
utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term="xvxx call" video chat, landing on the sibling XXVX 1v1 and XVXX Hub under the same developer. That shows people are searching the term, and several same-developer packages split traffic on it. - Same developer rotating volume (pattern confirmed, channel unknown): Call's pulses (10-05~10-11 at about 350 per day, 10-30 single-day +1,215, 11-03 +730) are single-day spikes that fade within days, which doesn't look like organic growth. Over the same period, the sibling XVXX Live and XXVX 1v1 gained 7–5 times as much in 10 days, so the budget went mainly to those two packages. Meta / TikTok ad libraries don't track these packages, so there is no direct evidence of paid promotion.
- Small-country dating Top Free charts (confirmed, but minor effect): 10-29~10-30 sat in Indonesia #84–#86, Philippines #118–#130, and India #145–#166, all near the bottom, so they brought little volume; it has been sliding since.
- Rating prompt (suspected): about 9,900 installs produce 131 reviews and 4.8 stars. Visible positive reviews are short sentences like "great job with developing", "this aap is actually best" and "good apk but don't pay money"; reviewers are mostly Indian names, and the developer replies with templates (Play page). The review count is about 1.3% of installs, which is high and suggests the app prompts users for ratings.
- TikTok / X / media: none. x-radar shows 60 "xvxx call" posts in the last 0 days; what can be found online is only auto-generated pages from APKPure, chrome-stats, best.dating, appagg and AppBrain (Jina search, 11-06). The matrix report that searched TikHub for "xvxx" also found no related promotion.
5. Where the money comes from
Mainly interstitial ads, plus in-app coin purchases at $0.99–7.49; one review says outright "don't pay money". It has never charted in Top Grossing, and at this install count, revenue is negligible. For this matrix, Call's value is an extra name variant and a backup package to shift volume to, not earnings in its own right.
6. How many people have seen it
Almost no one knows about it: no public revenue, nobody mentioning it on X, TikTok or in the media. But the space is already crowded. The xvx/xvxx terms alone have a dozen-plus packages and seven or eight accounts competing, and it is one of the smallest followers in the pile.
7. Differentiation
No. The features, copy, disclaimers and sibling packages are nearly identical; the name just swaps in "Call" after the same spelling set. Its few installs came from the adult-adjacent name pulling search traffic, plus occasional volume the account handed it, and neither has anything to do with the product itself.
8. What others can borrow
- Different suffixes on the same term (Live / Hub / Call) each get a package, occupying several slots in search results at once; then the budget goes to whichever converts best. Call is the one that got cut from this combination, which shows how the matrix selects packages.
- The bottom of the dating Top Free charts in emerging markets (Indonesia, Philippines, India), which a thousand-odd installs a day is enough to reach.
- Gray-area tactics. Play enforces its sexual-content policy strictly (it just added a child-safety feedback entry), so takedown and account-ban risk is high. Not recommended to copy.
9. Still unclear
- What channel those pulses actually came from (paid acquisition, ad-network swaps, or Play recommendations).
- Whether the videos in the app are live hosts, pre-recorded, or AI-generated.
- Why the US-store rating is blank, and the actual in-app purchase revenue.
- Whether UK HOME CARE LIMITED is a real company whose name was borrowed, or a shell registered for this purpose (Companies House not checked).
Sources
- googleplay library (agent-im, DuckDB): app, app_snap, app_day, app_day_ext (AppstoreSpy estimates), chart_rank, app_profile; query date 2026-11-06
- Play page: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xvxxcall.videochat… (read via r.jina.ai, 2026-11-06)
- Developer page: play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8566330111665245097
- Play link carrying utm_term="xvxx call" video chat: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.live.xxvxlive&hl=e…
- Auto-generated pages: apkpure.com/xvxx-call-1v1-video-chat/com.xvxxcall.videochat/… , best.dating/apps/europe/xvxx-call
- x-radar(q=xvxx call, 60 days, 0 posts)
- Reports already in the same matrix: /home/ljr/fanout/why/out/play_com.xvxxhub.randomvideochat.md, play_com.livevideochat.xxvxlive.md, play_com.trending.xvxxvideochat.md