46
Quality Score
Emerging
AfriPay Money Transfer
✍️ bumetric analysis
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AfriPay Money Transfer is an Android app from Afripay in the Finance category, currently rated 3.4★ across 252 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 46: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Finance app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$180K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $135K – $245K
$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 |
| ⚙Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$44K |
| ⚙9.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$54K |
Total estimate$180K
👥 Estimated audience size
10K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.7K
Daily active
680
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
| 📲Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 📅9.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU40% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
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 | Finance |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
82%
Last shipped 2024-07-10 · 682 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
| 📅1y 10mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥Small user base (252 ratings) + 9.0y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 32/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Product Quality
4.8
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.2
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.43★ across 252 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 681d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (681d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K.
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:
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (252 ratings)METRIC | +$400 |
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 →🔖 v3.3🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Finance💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📝 About this app
With AfriPay you can send money to Africa safely and easily at the best rate with low charges. You can also settle bills in Nigeria within few minutes at no charges.
Join an amazing community of happy people using AfriPay to send money to:
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Sierra Leon
- Gambia
- Uganda &
- Guinea
From: The United Kingdom and Europe
Services:
- Bank Transfer
- Cash Pick up
- Bill payment
For more information, please visit: https://www.afripay.co.uk
Join an amazing community of happy people using AfriPay to send money to:
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Sierra Leon
- Gambia
- Uganda &
- Guinea
From: The United Kingdom and Europe
Services:
- Bank Transfer
- Cash Pick up
- Bill payment
For more information, please visit: https://www.afripay.co.uk
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Tech & Domain Intel — afripay.co.uk
- Tech stack
- Mailgun
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- AfriPay Money Transfer
- Developer
- Afripay
- Bundle ID
- com.AfriPay.App.afri_pay
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.afripay.co.uk
- 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
- $162/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
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 growth252 ratings+38% 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 AfriPay Money Transfer: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does AfriPay Money Transfer make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, AfriPay Money Transfer earns approximately $161/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 AfriPay Money Transfer profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $180K and monthly revenue $161, AfriPay Money Transfer 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 AfriPay Money Transfer have?▾
Estimated audience: ~10K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~680 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 AfriPay Money Transfer?▾
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What is AfriPay Money Transfer built with?▾
Our heuristic places AfriPay Money Transfer on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is AfriPay Money Transfer still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (82% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was AfriPay Money Transfer last updated?▾
AfriPay Money Transfer last shipped a new version on 2024-07-10 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes AfriPay Money Transfer?▾
AfriPay Money Transfer is published by Afripay 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 AfriPay Money Transfer's BU Score?▾
AfriPay Money Transfer has a BU Score of 46/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.