THC Weed Identifier: Kush Scan
53
Quality Score
Solid
THC Weed Identifier: Kush Scan
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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THC Weed Identifier: Kush Scan is an iOS app from Oleksandr Koriukalov in the Education category, currently rated 2.8★ across 815 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 53: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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
$5.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.8K – $12.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$7.1K – $21.4K
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
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 (67 MB) | +$6K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$11K |
Total estimate
$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~3.2× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
69K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
12K
Daily active
3.6K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$5.3K – $8.8K
12 months
$5.8K – $12.1K
24 months
$7.1K – $21.4K
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
Stalled · 31/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
2.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
3.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $8K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.8★ across 815 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.66 ★ (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 = $66K-$122K. Portfolio play ($18K/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 7 of 7 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (815 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.
🆕 What's New · v1.63
We’ve completely redesigned Kush Scan!
• Fresh, modern look
• Faster performance
• Improved stability and reliability
• Smoother, more intuitive experience
Update now to enjoy a better, faster Kush Scan
• Fresh, modern look
• Faster performance
• Improved stability and reliability
• Smoother, more intuitive experience
Update now to enjoy a better, faster Kush Scan
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- THC Weed Identifier: Kush Scan
- Developer
- Oleksandr Koriukalov
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 17+
- 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
- $18.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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 growth815 ratings+3035% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
KushScan - Your ultimate mobile companion for identifying and understanding different weed strains. Snap a photo of your dry weed, and our app, powered by cutting-edge computer vision algorithms, reveals its strain name, THC level, and whether it's sativa or indica. Explore the world of weed with ease, as we present the three most visually similar strains from our extensive database, including varieties like Chocolope, G13, OG Kush, Pineapple Express and more.
Gain insights into your weed experience by performing mobile cannabis testing.… View full description on the official store →
Gain insights into your weed experience by performing mobile cannabis testing.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 67 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v1.63🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.80 → 4.34 (improved 1.54★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.13 → 2.44 (improved 0.31★)
2020-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.83 → 2.29 (improved 0.46★)
2020-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2019-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2019-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 115 reviews across 6 markets● 48% positive · ● 17% neutral · ● 35% negative · Rating drift: -0.66★ (declining — recent 50: 2.14★ vs lifetime: 2.8★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.52
🇨🇦 CA
+0.47
🇩🇪 DE
+0.16
🇺🇸 US
+0.16
🇬🇧 GB
-0.12
🇫🇷 FR
-0.18
Top praise themes
strains ×14 strain ×9 accurate ×8 work ×5 tried ×4 identify ×4 keep ×4 about ×4
Top complaint themes
different strains ×6 pay wall ×5 doesn work ×4 sour diesel ×4 blue dream ×3 terrible terrible ×3 don waste ×3 strain ×22
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.9% Subscription complaints: 3% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.6%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.83871★ | 31 | 3.83871★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.33333★ | 3 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.54167★ | 24 | 3.54167★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.53125★ | 32 | 3.53125★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.72727★ | 11 | 2.72727★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.71429★ | 28 | 2.71429★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.34504★ | 826 | 4.34504★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for THC Weed Identifier: Kush Scan: 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: 815 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does THC Weed Identifier make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, THC Weed Identifier earns approximately $18K/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 THC Weed Identifier?▴
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Who makes THC Weed Identifier?▴
THC Weed Identifier is published by Oleksandr Koriukalov 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 THC Weed Identifier's BU Score?▴
THC Weed Identifier has a BU Score of 53/100 (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.