77
Quality Score
Strong
Dupe.com: AI Deal Finder
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Dupe.com: AI Deal Finder is an iOS app from Carrot Cart, Inc in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 5,090 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 Shopping 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$858
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$750 – $2704
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$695 – $6254
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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📊 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
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~4 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 (70 MB) | +$8K |
| ⚙Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$17K |
| ⚙0.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$3K |
Total estimate$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$350K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $450K · 18× MRR multiple
💸~4.4× 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 |
| 📅0.5y proven track record | +3% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
495K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
59K
Daily active
10K
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
| 📲Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 70%
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
| 📦App bundle size | 70 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Shopping |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-04-14 · 41 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
| 📅41 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$858/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$730 – $1.7K
12 months
$750 – $2.7K
24 months
$695 – $6.3K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
7.2
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.1
Operational Safety
7.1
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $343 - $2145/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 5,090 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -1.31 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $15K-$27K. Portfolio play ($19K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (5,090 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| New app (6 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 70 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.0.25🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2025 (0y old)
📝 About this app
See something you love but not the price tag? Dupe helps you find the same or similar items for way less, sometimes up to 90% off!
Whether you’re decorating your first apartment, upgrading your wardrobe, or trying to look expensive on a budget, Dupe makes it easy. It searches the internet for more affordable versions of the things you actually want, so you can stop overpaying and start shopping smarter.
Upload a photo, paste a link, or search anything and in seconds, Dupe’s AI-powered matching engine dives deep across trusted retailers to find the best lookalikes.… View full description on the official store →
Whether you’re decorating your first apartment, upgrading your wardrobe, or trying to look expensive on a budget, Dupe makes it easy. It searches the internet for more affordable versions of the things you actually want, so you can stop overpaying and start shopping smarter.
Upload a photo, paste a link, or search anything and in seconds, Dupe’s AI-powered matching engine dives deep across trusted retailers to find the best lookalikes.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.0.25
- NEW Visual Intelligence support: Shop your screenshots!
- Bookmarking! You can now save your favorite finds for later
- See & track your $dupe points as you use Dupe
- Lots of general bug fixes and improvements
- Bookmarking! You can now save your favorite finds for later
- See & track your $dupe points as you use Dupe
- Lots of general bug fixes and improvements
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.0.25
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.89 → 4.83 (improved 0.94★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.56 (dropped 0.44★)
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
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Voice of Customer
Based on 88 reviews across 1 markets● 78% positive · ● 7% neutral · ● 15% negative · Rating drift: -1.31★ (declining — recent 50: 3.52★ vs lifetime: 4.83★)
Top praise themes
home decor ×4 saved money ×3 saved thousands ×3 super easy ×3 budget friendly ×3 find ×10 first ×10 shopping ×9
Top complaint themes
allow notifications ×4 web extension ×3 discounted price ×3 can't past ×3 points ×6 find ×5 stuck ×5 work ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 3%
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Dupe.com: AI Deal Finder
- Developer
- Carrot Cart, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.dupe.com.dev
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- dupe.com
- Tagline
- Dupe.com
- Description
- Save up to 90% on designer dupes. Dupe.com's AI finds furniture, fashion & beauty lookalikes from thousands of stores.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $19.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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/dupe_com · tiktok tiktok.com/@dupedotcom · twitter x.com/dupedotcom
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- dupe.com/about
📈Ratings growth5,090 ratings+10504% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (26 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (7 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Dupe.com: AI Deal Finder: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 5,090 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Dupe.com make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Dupe.com earns approximately $19K/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 Dupe.com profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $80K and monthly revenue $19K, Dupe.com looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 4 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 Dupe.com have?▴
Estimated audience: ~495K lifetime downloads, ~59K monthly active users, and ~10K 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 Dupe.com?▴
Browse the full Shopping category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Dupe.com built with?▴
Our heuristic places Dupe.com on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Dupe.com still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Dupe.com sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $350K (marketplace range $250K – $450K). Calculated as 18× 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 Dupe.com last updated?▴
Dupe.com last shipped a new version on 2026-04-14 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Dupe.com?▴
Dupe.com is published by Carrot Cart, Inc 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 Dupe.com's BU Score?▴
Dupe.com 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.