Pushpin for Pinboard
57
Quality Score
Solid
Pushpin for Pinboard
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Pushpin for Pinboard is an iOS app from Lionheart Software LLC in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.1★ across 220 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity app, that means established niche player. 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 tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~3.8y 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 |
| ⚙Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 15× MRR multiple
💸~0.4× 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 |
| 🏷Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
16K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.9K
Daily active
2.2K
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
| 📲Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU45% sticky
🔬
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)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 44/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
4.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
7.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.07★ across 220 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 468d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.01 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (468d 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 = $60K-$110K. 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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (220 ratings)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 · v4.3.0
Pushpin is now OSS and licensed under GPLv3. Check out the source code on GitHub if you'd like to contribute.
If Pushpin has given you huge value (more than the price you paid for it), please consider sending over a tip! Tips are a huge motivator and help support ongoing… Full release notes →
If Pushpin has given you huge value (more than the price you paid for it), please consider sending over a tip! Tips are a huge motivator and help support ongoing… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Pushpin for Pinboard
- Developer
- Lionheart Software LLC
- Bundle ID
- io.aurora.pushpin
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ZH
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Lionheart creates rock-solid software for early-stage startups.
- 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
- $1.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- theblacktux.com
- linkedin.com/company/3269231
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/LionheartSoftware · linkedin linkedin.com/company/3269231 · twitter theblacktux.com
- hi@lionheartsw.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- lionheartsw.com/contact.html
- About page
- lionheartsw.com/about.html
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.08★ · 32.7% 5★ · 24.5% 1★
5★16 (33%)
4★4 (8%)
3★9 (18%)
2★8 (16%)
1★12 (24%)
+14 ratings/week
Praise: great ×12 love ×6 excellent ×3 best ×3 recommend ×3Complaints: bug ×8 broken ×8 crash ×5 refund ×2 hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Wonderful App!
Pushpin has been my go-to for 10 years with Pinboard. Not one issue. Consistently seamless (flawless) performance. Through all the years. Thank you for creating such a wonderful app. I Wish all Apps would perform this way! Geez - and now Op…
★★★★★ One of my must have apps is better
Been excited about this for a long time. Great update! So excited to diver further into the app.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t seem to work properly… abandonware?
……
★☆☆☆☆ Buggy app with no response from support
All the share sheet features are broken and I’ve tried reaching out to support but no response. Guess I need to try to get a refund.…
📈Ratings growth220 ratings+137% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
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
Pushpin is an open-source, beautiful, blazing fast, and feature-packed Pinboard client for iOS. Designed for both power users and newbies alike, Pushpin lets you browse, search, add, edit, and delete bookmarks seamlessly with a gorgeous interface. It also comes with two easy-to-use share extensions to help you quickly add bookmarks from any app.
Pushpin also has a powerful and flexible URL scheme, full support for Pinboard feeds, saved searches, offline reading support, integration with read later services like Instapaper, Readability, and Pocket, and the list goes on.… View full description on the official store →
Pushpin also has a powerful and flexible URL scheme, full support for Pinboard feeds, saved searches, offline reading support, integration with read later services like Instapaper, Readability, and Pocket, and the list goes on.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 9 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v4.3.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FR, DE +3📂 Productivity💰 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.47 → 4.40 (improved 0.93★)
2019-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.29 → 3.88 (dropped 0.41★)
2012-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2012-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 220 reviews across 6 markets● 77% positive · ● 3% neutral · ● 20% negative · Rating drift: -1.01★ (declining — recent 50: 3.06★ vs lifetime: 4.07★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.79
🇨🇦 CA
+0.62
🇺🇸 US
+0.52
🇬🇧 GB
+0.48
🇫🇷 FR
+0.36
🇩🇪 DE
+0.04
Top praise themes
share sheet ×13 dark mode ×6 ipad pro ×6 reader view ×4 reader mode ×4 only one ×4 client ios ×4 read later ×4
Top complaint themes
share sheet ×15 ios update ×4 share extension ×4 dark mode ×4 longer works ×3 doesn work ×3 save url ×3 freezes safari ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.9% Bug mentions: 23%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — lionheartsw.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66667★ | 9 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.66667★ | 3 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.125★ | 16 | 4.125★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.30435★ | 46 | 4.30435★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.5★ | 4 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4★ | 26 | 4★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.75★ | 4 | 3.75★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.2★ | 5 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.07273★ | 220 | 4.07273★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Pushpin for Pinboard: 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: 220 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Pushpin for Pinboard make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Pushpin for Pinboard earns approximately $1.2K/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.
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Who makes Pushpin for Pinboard?▴
Pushpin for Pinboard is published by Lionheart Software 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 Pushpin for Pinboard's BU Score?▴
Pushpin for Pinboard has a BU Score of 57/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.