e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare
82
Quality Score
Excellent
e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare is an iOS app from e.l.f. Cosmetics, Inc. in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.9★ across 39,024 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Shopping 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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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
🤖Also on Android
$483/mo · 4K ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~12 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 (195 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $250K · 18× MRR multiple
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~1.5× build cost (break-even+)
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
465K
Daily active
83K
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 / MAU
18% sticky
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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 · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.7
Market Position
0.6
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.6
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 39,024 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. Portfolio play ($10K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (39,024 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · vR30
We just gave the e.l.f. app a glow-up to make shopping faster, smoother, and more personalized- find your faves, and check out in a snap. No stress, all slay!
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- Passwordless Login: Say bye to password chaos-log in securely for instant access. Faster, safer, easier.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare
- Developer
- e.l.f. Cosmetics, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.elfcosmetics.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $10.4K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth39,101 ratings+51% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Welcome to the beauty-verse! From viral lip oils to seriously effective skincare, shop the best of beauty for every eye, lip and face in an e.l.f.ing amazing app experience.
Glow wild. This is your space to shop, share, and explore your Holy Grail e.l.f. products. Plus you can discover your new favorite makeup and skincare items with features like Concealer and Foundation Shade Match, and Shoppable Stories.
JOIN OUR BEAUTY SQUAD REWARDS PROGRAM.
Our FREE loyalty program gives you multiple ways to earn points: you can redeem for free products and other OMG rewards.… View full description on the official store →
Glow wild. This is your space to shop, share, and explore your Holy Grail e.l.f. products. Plus you can discover your new favorite makeup and skincare items with features like Concealer and Foundation Shade Match, and Shoppable Stories.
JOIN OUR BEAUTY SQUAD REWARDS PROGRAM.
Our FREE loyalty program gives you multiple ways to earn points: you can redeem for free products and other OMG rewards.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 195 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 vR30🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
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Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
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Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.86901★ | 39,101 | 4.86901★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.84582★ | 6,142 | 4.84582★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 39,024 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare earns approximately $10K/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 e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare?▴
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Who makes e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare?▴
e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare is published by e.l.f. Cosmetics, 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 e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare's BU Score?▴
e.l.f. Cosmetics and Skincare has a BU Score of 82/100 (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.