Little Free Library
44
Quality Score
Emerging
Little Free Library
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Little Free Library is an iOS app from Little Free Library, Ltd in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 3.4★ across 126 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 44: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
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
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate$55K
👥 Estimated audience size
12K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.7K
Daily active
340
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
| 📲Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 25/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
3.2
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.1
Operational Safety
0.3
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.36★ across 126 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.90 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $6K-$11K. 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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (126 ratings)METRIC | +$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 →💾 16 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.13.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Free
📝 About this app
The Little Free Library app makes it easy to find little library locations near you! Use the search filters to narrow in on little libraries you want to visit, easily get directions to the nearest ones, or create a route. See a library you like? Add it to your list of favorites. Track the libraries you visit using the handy check-ins feature. If you’re a Little Free Library steward, there’s a section of the app just for you that lets you edit your library’s listing in real time!
Little Free Library Map:… View full description on the official store →
Little Free Library Map:… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.13.0
Bug fixes and stability 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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.73 → 3.40 (improved 0.67★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.11 (dropped 0.39★)
2021-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2021-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 77 reviews across 2 markets● 64% positive · ● 8% neutral · ● 29% negative · Rating drift: -0.90★ (declining — recent 50: 2.46★ vs lifetime: 3.36★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.36
🇨🇦 CA
-0.07
Top praise themes
libraries area ×4 finding libraries ×3 being able ×3 find libraries ×3 lfl ×10 map ×7 helpful ×6 add ×6
Top complaint themes
won open ×7 doesn work ×6 please fix ×3 stuck load ×3 load screen ×3 dark mode ×3 libraries ×13 check ×9
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 16%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.39535★ | 129 | 3.39535★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.44444★ | 9 | 2.44444★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Little Free Library
- Developer
- Little Free Library, Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.littlefreelibrary.LFL
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Little Free Library
- Description
- Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization with a mission to build community, inspire readers, and expand book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Libraries.
- 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
- $241/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/LittleFreeLibrary · instagram instagram.com/littlefreelibrary · linkedin linkedin.com/company/little-free-library · tiktok tiktok.com/@littlefreelibrary · youtube youtube.com/@littlefreelibrary5240
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- littlefreelibrary.org/contact-us
- About page
- littlefreelibrary.org/about
📈Ratings growth126 ratings+1300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (50 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.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Little Free Library: 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: 126 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Little Free Library make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Little Free Library earns approximately $241/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 Little Free Library?▴
Little Free Library is published by Little Free Library, 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 Little Free Library's BU Score?▴
Little Free Library has a BU Score of 44/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.