77
Quality Score
Strong
18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder
✍️ bumetric analysis
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18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder is an Android app from 18Birdies LLC in the Sports category, currently rated 4.9★ across 55,134 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a Sports app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$245K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $185K – $330K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 💎In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙Sports complexity ×1.90 | +$53K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$62K |
| ⚙11.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$67K |
Total estimate$245K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 33× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 💎IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| 📅11.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Sports category multiple | -15% |
Final multiple33× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
305K
Daily active
91K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲Sports engagement | ~180 installs / rating |
| 📅11.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Sports D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷Category context | Sports |
| 📦Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-22 · 1 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅1 day since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.0
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
4.0
Defensibility
7.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 55,134 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (55,134 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 1d ago📂 Sports💰 Free💎 IAP $2.99 - $99.99 per item🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📝 About this app
Play Better Golf with 18Birdies, the golf GPS range finder, scorecard, handicap tracker, stats tracker, and game-improvement app trusted by more than 10 million golfers.
Get free GPS yardages on 45,000+ golf courses, track every round, follow your handicap, analyze your stats, and improve your swing with AI-powered feedback, training tools, and expert coach reviews.
Whether you want smarter distances, lower scores, better practice, or more fun with friends, 18Birdies helps golfers play smarter and improve faster.
FREE GOLF GPS RANGEFINDER FOR SMARTER ROUNDS… View full description on the official store →
Get free GPS yardages on 45,000+ golf courses, track every round, follow your handicap, analyze your stats, and improve your swing with AI-powered feedback, training tools, and expert coach reviews.
Whether you want smarter distances, lower scores, better practice, or more fun with friends, 18Birdies helps golfers play smarter and improve faster.
FREE GOLF GPS RANGEFINDER FOR SMARTER ROUNDS… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — 18birdies.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Mailgun · Meta (Facebook) Ads
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder
- Developer
- 18Birdies LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.squarevalley.i8birdies
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Sports
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- 18birdies.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $2.99 - $99.99 per item
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth55,134 ratings+34% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder earns approximately $1K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $245K and monthly revenue $1K, 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder have?▾
Estimated audience: ~6.9M lifetime downloads, ~305K monthly active users, and ~91K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder?▾
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What is 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder built with?▾
Our heuristic places 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $35K (marketplace range $25K – $45K). Calculated as 33× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder last updated?▾
18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder last shipped a new version on 2026-05-22 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder?▾
18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder is published by 18Birdies LLC on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is 18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder's BU Score?▾
18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder has a BU Score of 77/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.