68
Quality Score
Solid
Nest Egg - Inventar
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Nest Egg - Inventar is an iOS app from Nest Egg Labs, Inc in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.4★ across 610 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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 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
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~5 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 |
| ⚙Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙15.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$90K |
Total estimate$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$425K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 16× MRR multiple
💸~3.1× 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 |
| 📅15.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
85K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.6K
Daily active
720
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
| 📲Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅15.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 33 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Utilities |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-04-04 · 51 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
| 📅51 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
VerdictActive
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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)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
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 · 34/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
4.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.43★ across 610 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.67 ★ (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 = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($26K/mo combined) commands premium. 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 12 of 12 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 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (32 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (610 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 33 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.5+🔖 v4.2.40🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, HR, CS, DA, NL +27📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📝 About this app
Nest Egg® is a suite of intelligent inventory solutions, featured in the New York Times, Denver Post, Boston Globe, ABC, CNBC and many other media outlets. More than 7 million items scanned and counting!
Nest Egg - Inventory is a home inventory app that lets you care smart for what you have. It is now quick and fun to create an inventory of your blu-rays, books, music, electronics, wine lists, jewelry, office supplies, appliances, kitchen, apparel or anything else by taking photos and scanning barcodes with automatic filling in of product information.
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WHY NEST EGG?… View full description on the official store →
Nest Egg - Inventory is a home inventory app that lets you care smart for what you have. It is now quick and fun to create an inventory of your blu-rays, books, music, electronics, wine lists, jewelry, office supplies, appliances, kitchen, apparel or anything else by taking photos and scanning barcodes with automatic filling in of product information.
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WHY NEST EGG?… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v4.2.40
Fix for iOS 26.4 navigation bar disappearing when Accessibility-Reduce Transparency is on.
Fix for iOS 26 UI issues.
Fix for iOS 26 UI issues.
📅
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 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $6.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.26 → 4.60 (improved 1.34★)
2023-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.57 → 3.25 (dropped 0.32★)
2011-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.80 → 3.33 (dropped 0.47★)
2011-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.80 (dropped 0.45★)
2011-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2011-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 205 reviews across 8 markets● 64% positive · ● 12% neutral · ● 24% negative · Rating drift: -1.67★ (declining — recent 50: 2.76★ vs lifetime: 4.43★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.58
🇺🇸 US
+0.51
🇨🇦 CA
+0.50
🇦🇺 AU
+0.49
🇧🇷 BR
+0.21
🇫🇷 FR
+0.01
🇯🇵 JP
+0.00
🇩🇪 DE
-0.29
Top praise themes
home inventory ×11 keep track ×8 customer support ×6 insurance purposes ×5 home insurance ×4 ability add ×4 sub categories ×4 one fee ×3
Top complaint themes
barcode scanning ×8 csv file ×7 doesn work ×5 waste money ×4 lite version ×4 purchased full ×3 full version ×3 list items ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.9% Bug mentions: 8% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.4%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.47727★ | 44 | 4.47727★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.09999★ | 10 | 4.09999★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.27711★ | 83 | 4.27711★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.59259★ | 108 | 4.59259★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.2★ | 30 | 4.2★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.19149★ | 47 | 4.19149★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.4★ | 10 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.43443★ | 610 | 4.43443★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Nest Egg - Inventar
- Developer
- Nest Egg Labs, Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.winprogger.ios.homeinventory
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
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
- $26.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 growth610 ratings+917% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (58 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 → $6.99 (+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.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Nest Egg - Inventar: 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: 610 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Nest Egg - Inventar make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Nest Egg - Inventar earns approximately $26K/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 Nest Egg - Inventar profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $26K, Nest Egg - Inventar looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 5 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 Nest Egg - Inventar have?▴
Estimated audience: ~85K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~720 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 Nest Egg - Inventar?▴
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What is Nest Egg - Inventar built with?▴
Our heuristic places Nest Egg - Inventar on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 Nest Egg - Inventar 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 Nest Egg - Inventar sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $425K (marketplace range $325K – $600K). Calculated as 16× 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 Nest Egg - Inventar last updated?▴
Nest Egg - Inventar last shipped a new version on 2026-04-04 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Nest Egg - Inventar?▴
Nest Egg - Inventar is published by Nest Egg Labs, 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 Nest Egg - Inventar's BU Score?▴
Nest Egg - Inventar has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.