84
Quality Score
Excellent
Blinq: Digital Business Card
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Blinq: Digital Business Card is an iOS app from Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd in the Business category, currently rated 4.9★ across 125,373 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Business app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$1.4M/mo
In 12 months
$1.5M – $2.3M
In 24 months
$1.8M – $3.3M
BIG tier
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Snapshots tracked
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$162/mo · 31 ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~6 months at current MRR
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 (299 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙Business complexity ×1.50 | +$45K |
| ⚙8.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$50K |
Total estimate$185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$700K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $500K – $900K · 24× MRR multiple
💸~3.8× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅8.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple24× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.7M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
765K
Daily active
225K
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
| 📲Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 📅8.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU29% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
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
| 📦App bundle size | 299 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Business |
| 📦Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-10 · 13 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
| 📅13 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.4M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.4M – $1.9M
12 months
$1.5M – $2.3M
24 months
$1.8M – $3.3M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
9.8
Revenue Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $560K - $3080K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.88★ across 125,373 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 = $25.2M-$44.8M.
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:
| High install base (125,373 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 299 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v1.106.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📝 About this app
Introducing Blinq: The Ultimate Digital Business Card Solution
Transform the way you network with Blinq, your go-to electronic business card maker. Effortlessly craft a sleek virtual business card in less than two minutes, accessible to anyone, app-free. Blinq’s innovative design lets you exchange professional details swiftly and memorably.
EFFICIENT & CUSTOMIZABLE CREATION
- Swiftly download Blinq and create your electronic business card in a flash.
- Customize with over 20 fields, including social media, unique links, and more, ensuring your virtual business card truly represents you.… View full description on the official store →
Transform the way you network with Blinq, your go-to electronic business card maker. Effortlessly craft a sleek virtual business card in less than two minutes, accessible to anyone, app-free. Blinq’s innovative design lets you exchange professional details swiftly and memorably.
EFFICIENT & CUSTOMIZABLE CREATION
- Swiftly download Blinq and create your electronic business card in a flash.
- Customize with over 20 fields, including social media, unique links, and more, ensuring your virtual business card truly represents you.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.106.0
- We’ve fixed a few bugs and made improvements throughout!
Happy sharing!
Happy sharing!
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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 →
2026-05
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Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
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Rating ↑ 4.33 → 4.70 (improved 0.37★)
2026-03
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Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
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Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-02
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Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-11
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Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-09
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-09
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Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2023-08
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #7Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
business card scanner·#7🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.79424★ | 3,023 | 4.79424★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.85666★ | 293 | 4.85666★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.84386★ | 5,194 | 4.84386★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.67824★ | 432 | 4.67824★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.7642★ | 581 | 4.7642★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.7873★ | 3,907 | 4.7873★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.83261★ | 693 | 4.83261★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.62903★ | 62 | 4.62903★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.87559★ | 125,869 | 4.87559★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Blinq: Digital Business Card
- Developer
- Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.rabbl.Blink
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- The AI contacts app for people who meet people
- Description
- The best digital business card for individuals and teams. Create your free digital business card or set up your whole team in seconds. Loved by 4M users.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $200.0K ($180.0K – $220.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $2.4M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $29.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#28 /100 🇨🇦#49 /100 🇬🇧#52 /100 🇫🇷#54 /100 🇦🇺#80 /100 🇮🇳#86 /100
- 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
- Socials
- instagram instagram.com/blinq.app · linkedin linkedin.com/company/blinq-me · tiktok tiktok.com/@blinq.me · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCopwKOpWolEHxJON…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- blinq.me/contact
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Blinq: Digital Business Card" is estimated to generate approximately $200,000 in monthly revenue, leading to an annual estimate of $2.4 million. This estimate is based on recent data for the iOS app specifically.
Sources mentioned: Adapty, Growjo, Prospeo, Owler, Bitscale
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.98★ · 67.3% 5★ · 18.4% 1★
5★33 (67%)
4★2 (4%)
3★3 (6%)
2★2 (4%)
1★9 (18%)
+457 ratings/week
Praise: love ×14 great ×9 perfect ×4 best ×3 fantastic ×2Complaints: subscription ×1 bug ×1 refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Yes!
Perfect card ready at all times…
★★★★★ Networking Ready
I left for a conference only to realize I did not have my business cards. Searching the internet for digital cards brought me to Blinq. Rather than handing out printed cards, that often end up in a desk drawn or dropped in the trash can, Bl…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Deceptive practice
They give you 7 days of trial and then just bill your credit card even if you cancel the plan. Be careful…
★☆☆☆☆ Poor customer service
They have been very responsive with me until I asked to cancel my subscription. They sent me a cancellation link that did not work and I never heard back from them.…
📈Ratings growth125,373 ratings+21% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇺🇸US#28 /100
🇨🇦CA#49 /100
🇬🇧GB#52 /100
🇫🇷FR#54 /100
🇦🇺AU#80 /100
🇮🇳IN#86 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#28 now · best #24 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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.
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Read the article-style breakdown for Blinq: Digital Business Card: 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 Blinq make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Blinq earns approximately $29K/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 Blinq profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $29K, Blinq looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 6 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Blinq have?▾
Estimated audience: ~5.7M lifetime downloads, ~765K monthly active users, and ~225K 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 Blinq?▾
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What is Blinq built with?▾
Our heuristic places Blinq on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Blinq still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 13 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Blinq sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $700K (marketplace range $500K – $900K). Calculated as 24× 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 Blinq last updated?▾
Blinq last shipped a new version on 2026-05-10 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Blinq?▾
Blinq is published by Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd 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 Blinq's BU Score?▾
Blinq has a BU Score of 84/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.