MobilePatrol: Public Safety
38
Quality Score
Emerging
MobilePatrol: Public Safety
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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MobilePatrol: Public Safety is an iOS app from Appriss Insights LLC in the Social Networking category, currently rated 2.0★ across 3,643 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 38: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Social Networking 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$627
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$548 – $1976
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$508 – $4571
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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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
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (54 MB) | +$1K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$36K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + 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
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
325K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
81K
Daily active
44K
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$627/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$534 – $1.2K
12 months
$548 – $2.0K
24 months
$508 – $4.6K
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 · 24/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.8
Product Quality
2.1
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
1.2
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $250 - $1568/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.02★ across 3,643 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1035d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — rating drift -0.94 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (1035d 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 12-22× monthly = $7K-$13K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (3,643 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)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.
🆕 What's New · v6.8
Fix to offender loading screen when height is blank.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- MobilePatrol: Public Safety
- Developer
- Appriss Insights LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.appriss.mobilepatrol
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $627/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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 growth3,643 ratings+41% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (55 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
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.
📝 About this app
MobilePatrol connects you to important safety information, news, and critical alerts for places you care about. We partner with public safety and law enforcement agencies nationwide so you can receive timely access to information that keeps you and your loved ones safe. MobilePatrol focuses exclusively on public safety, so important information won’t get lost between your friends’ cat photos and the latest viral video!
“A good resource to find accurate information instead of listening to what you hear on the gossip vine!” – Lennie B., 2014… View full description on the official store →
“A good resource to find accurate information instead of listening to what you hear on the gossip vine!” – Lennie B., 2014… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 54 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v6.8🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.25 → 2.02 (improved 0.77★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2021-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2021-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
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Voice of Customer
Based on 500 reviews across 1 markets● 26% positive · ● 18% neutral · ● 56% negative · Rating drift: -0.94★ (declining — recent 50: 1.08★ vs lifetime: 2.02★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
wish ×4 update ×4 show ×4 working ×4 arrested ×3 county ×3 see ×3
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×45 mobile patrol ×20 ads ads ×17 longer works ×16 don waste ×14 doesn show ×13 please fix ×13 won let ×12
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 4%
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for MobilePatrol: Public Safety: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 3,643 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does MobilePatrol make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, MobilePatrol earns approximately $627/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.
What apps are like MobilePatrol?▴
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Who makes MobilePatrol?▴
MobilePatrol is published by Appriss Insights LLC on the Apple App 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 MobilePatrol's BU Score?▴
MobilePatrol has a BU Score of 38/100 (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.