GIANT Food Stores
74
Quality Score
Strong
GIANT Food Stores
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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GIANT Food Stores is an iOS app from Giant Food Stores LLC in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.6★ across 50,433 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 74: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~5.0y 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 (127 MB) | +$30K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$24K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $20K – $40K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
600K
Daily active
105K
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
Stalled · 38/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
7.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
5.8
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.58★ across 50,433 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — rating drift -2.66 ★ (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 = $90K-$160K.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (50,433 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v9.0.0
We're constantly making improvements for a better customer experience. Updates in this release include:
• Performance enhancements
• Bug fixes
• Performance enhancements
• Bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GIANT Food Stores
- Developer
- Giant Food Stores LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.giantc.mobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- 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
- $1.7K/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 growth50,433 ratings+28% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (49 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
The GIANT online and in-store shopping you love, now even better: easier-to-redeem Rewards Points and Bonus Offers, a dedicated “Shop” section and simpler navigation. (more)
So. Many. DEALS.
• Shop coupons, your local weekly ad, specials and much more right from the app.
• Save it all to your account and automatically redeem in-store or online, when you checkout with your loyalty card.
And as always, GIANT Rewards are waiting for you no matter how you shop.
• Sign in to access your GIANT Choice Rewards® any time.
• Earn GIANT Rewards points for every $1 spent online or in-store.… View full description on the official store →
So. Many. DEALS.
• Shop coupons, your local weekly ad, specials and much more right from the app.
• Save it all to your account and automatically redeem in-store or online, when you checkout with your loyalty card.
And as always, GIANT Rewards are waiting for you no matter how you shop.
• Sign in to access your GIANT Choice Rewards® any time.
• Earn GIANT Rewards points for every $1 spent online or in-store.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 127 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v9.0.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 50,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-04
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Shipped update — v? → v9.0.0
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.78 → 4.58 (improved 1.80★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 4.00 (dropped 0.60★)
2023-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2023-12
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 500 reviews across 1 markets● 53% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 38% negative · Rating drift: -2.66★ (declining — recent 50: 1.92★ vs lifetime: 4.58★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
digital coupons ×9 shopping list ×7 customer service ×5 past purchases ×5 clip coupons ×5 order ahead ×5 friendly helpful ×4 grocery store ×4
Top complaint themes
digital coupons ×31 customer service ×21 doesn work ×18 clip coupons ×10 shopping list ×9 digital coupon ×9 past purchases ×8 grocery store ×7
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.8% Bug mentions: 5%
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for GIANT Food Stores: 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: 50,433 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GIANT Food Stores make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GIANT Food Stores earns approximately $1.7K/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 GIANT Food Stores?▴
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Who makes GIANT Food Stores?▴
GIANT Food Stores is published by Giant Food Stores 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 GIANT Food Stores's BU Score?▴
GIANT Food Stores has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.