"Haven't used it yet, five stars first": a video chat App named after three adult sites hit 30k installs in two weeks

XVXX Hub on Google Play calls itself "random video chat, 1-to-1 video calls," is rated 18+, was published in Aug 26, and had 11-06 with 37k installs. It charted on the dating free charts in Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico and Brazil. The reason it took off is not in the product. Its name blends the three adult sites xvideos, xnxx and Pornhub, which catches people searching adult terms in the store. The developer account behind it holds four nearly identical packages and rotates the paid acquisition budget among them, and in early October that rotation landed on this one for two weeks. Below we cover what it is, where the traffic came from, where the money comes from, who is competing with it, and why we don't recommend following it.

Two reviews

On Sep 16, an Indonesian user named Bangjon left a comment under XVXX Hub: "belum nyoba kasih bintang 5 dulu" (haven't tried it yet, but giving it five stars first). 5 people marked it helpful, and on Oct 2 the developer replied: "Thank you for choosing our App, we're glad you enjoy the experience."

On Oct 10, another user, Sla Met, wrote: "aplikasi apaan ni, belom 1 menit iklan udah 10 kali" (what kind of app is this, under a minute in and the ad has popped up 10 times).

Put these two together and you have most of the App: users are asked for a rating right away, then drowned in ads. On the store page it sits at 4.5 stars with 472 ratings (Play Indonesia page, 11-06). From the score alone you can't see what the second comment describes.

What it actually is

The store description is boilerplate: random video matching, 1-to-1 private calls, meet people around the world. The second half of the Indonesian version has a long paragraph saying the App "does not promote or provide prostitution, escort services, paid dating, or adult entertainment" and bans sharing sexual content. That disclaimer alone shows it knows what users are really after. Rating 18+, "contains ads, contains in-app purchases," coins $0.99–7.49 each.

The developer is listed as UK HOME CARE LIMITED. A company by that name does exist in the UK Companies House register: registered in 2018 in Carshalton, south of London, with a registered business of "social work activities for the elderly and disabled," and two British directors. But the support email on this Play account 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 publishes an unrelated app, PaintMate Home, alongside the video chat packages. A UK home care firm running a 18+ video chat App doesn't add up. The more likely reading is a borrowed or purchased organizational developer account, with the work actually done by a Vietnamese team (inference).

Whether the videos in the App are real people, pre-recorded, or AI-generated can't be determined from outside. Not verified.

Where the traffic came from: a borderline name, plus a push rotated onto it

The first factor is the name. XVXX Hub = xvideos + xnxx + Pornhub. People really do search Google for "xvxx hub app": the Play link of a similar downloader App carries utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=xvxx+hub+app, meaning it was reached organically from that search term. Searching "xvxx" on Play Indonesia, nearly all of the first dozen or so results are the same kind of video chat package. The term has search demand that legitimate products won't touch, so whoever occupies it gets the traffic.

The second factor is the paid push, the most visible part of the curve. Install numbers grew like this (10-28 and earlier are estimates from third-party AppstoreSpy, later figures are Google Play installs):

Thousands of installs in one day that fall back to dozens within days doesn't look like word of mouth. It looks like concentrated paid acquisition, traffic swaps or ad-network buys (inference, specific channels not found). Looking at the daily installs of several packages under the same account makes the pattern clearer: 10-02 to 10-14 was Hub's push, while its sibling XVXX Live got only a few hundred a day. After Oct 19 the push switched to XVXX Live (10-21 about 3,200,11-02 a day, about 5,800), and Hub dropped to single digits to around twenty a day. Another sibling, XXVX 1v1, also spiked on 10-08 and 11-01 (AppstoreSpy estimates). One account, one codebase, several names, budget rotated among them.

The third factor is low-barrier charts. On the dating free charts in Indonesia, the Philippines and Mexico, a few hundred to a few thousand installs a day is enough to reach the top 100. 10-31 it ranked #43 in Indonesia, #62 in the Philippines, #67 in Mexico and #140 in Brazil. By 11-06 it had slipped to #65 in Indonesia, #84 in the Philippines, #90 in Mexico and #199 in Brazil (Google Play dating category free chart). It never charted on Top Grossing.

It has no presence on TikTok or X. Searching "xvxx hub" turns up only unrelated adult-topic videos on TikTok, and zero posts on X in the past two months. The only pages you find online are auto-generated ones from APKPure, AppBrain and Similarweb.

Where the money comes from

Revenue comes mainly from interstitial ads, which is what the "ten times in a minute" comment is about, plus $0.99–7.49 coin purchases. It has never reached the Top Grossing chart in any country, and no public revenue figures exist, so its income is probably very small. The unit economics of this approach (inference): in Indonesia and the Philippines an install costs a few cents, and ads can earn that back. A package lives for a month or two, and once it decays the budget moves to the next one.

Who it's competing with: one keyword, a dozen-plus packages

Its most direct rivals are its siblings. Dating and video chat packages with xvx, xvxx or xxvx in the name number more than 17 on Play, belonging to at least 7 developer accounts, all with Vietnamese-name gmail support addresses (Google Play install figures, 11-06):

In this group XVXX Hub is the smaller, later one. Developer account names follow the same pattern: UK "care" or "health" company names, or "Some Labs 2026". Video downloaders carrying the same term also exist on Play, showing that the "xvx" term has search demand that more than one kind of product is chasing.

Further out are the legitimate random video and paid live-streamer video apps: Azar (2013 years, about 290M installs) and OmeTV (2015 years, 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 the Indonesian dating free chart without a borderline name. Compared with these, XVXX Hub has no brand, no visible streamer supply and no top-grossing placement. Its only difference is the name.

What it actually does well

There is no product difference: features, copy, screenshots and sibling packages are nearly identical word for word, and the name is just the same spelling cluster with "Hub" added. Its edge is all in distribution. It takes a keyword people search for but legitimate products won't touch, puts one package on each spelling variant, runs the same codebase under several accounts, and rotates the paid acquisition budget, moving on when a package decays. That is why it reached 30k installs in two weeks, and also why it stopped two weeks later.

If it were you

In one line: don't follow it. It is itself a late follower. The keyword is already taken by a dozen-plus packages and seven or more accounts, and using adult-site names for an App can get it removed by Google under its sexual content and misleading metadata rules, with the account banned along with it.

Who it suits: teams that already have a batch of developer accounts they can discard at any time, have ready paid acquisition and ad-monetization operations, and can absorb the loss of a whole batch of takedowns. They don't need this article.

Who it doesn't suit: indie developers and small teams who register developer accounts under their own names or companies. You have no disposable accounts, and one ban means everything is gone.

What you can take away: a few legitimate tactics are worth noting. First, before launch, check the charting thresholds for your target country and category: in Indonesia, the Philippines and Mexico's dating free charts, a few hundred to a few thousand installs a day can get you into the top 100, and the chart itself is a channel. Second, multiple packages from one codebase, budget rotated, packages swapped when they decay. This combination approach also works in legitimate categories, for example splitting into several localized packages by language or country. Third, look for keywords where people search but nobody is doing it well, and make sure they are legitimate ones, such as local-language keywords in a particular country.

How to acquire users: if you really want to build video dating for Southeast Asia or Latin America, learn from TemChat Pro: local language, localized names and creative, start from store search and low-barrier dating free charts, then buy installs in markets where acquisition is cheap, like Indonesia and the Philippines. The core is making sure matched people are real and willing to chat, because that is the reason people pay.

Time window: for packages like XVXX, the window is "before Google cleans them up," and it is already crowded. For people who want to learn category charts and the combination approach, there is no deadline.

What would show you misjudged this: if by early 2027 this cluster of xvx packages were still on Play and several had reached the top dating grossing charts in Indonesia or the Philippines, that would mean this approach earns more than it appears and Google's cleanup is slower than expected. Even then, the risk of account bans would not disappear.

Data and sources

• Google Play store page (Indonesia), reviews, install counts and dating category chart, as of 11-06. Daily installs before 10-28 are estimates from third-party AppstoreSpy.
• UK Companies House: UK HOME CARE LIMITED (company no. 11520137) registration details, 11-06.
• AppBrain Indonesia dating free chart; Play link carrying utm_term=xvxx+hub+app.
• Searches for "xvxx hub" and "xvxx" on TikTok and X, 11-06.
• Places marked "est.", "inferred", or "unverified" are estimates and inferences.