Petco: The Pet Parents Partner
60
Quality Score
Solid
Petco: The Pet Parents Partner
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Petco: The Pet Parents Partner is an Android app from Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. in the Shopping category, currently rated 3.8★ across 22,157 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping 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 tier
💡 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
🍎Also on iOS
$6.6K/mo · 399K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$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 |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$36K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
260K
Daily active
46K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 44/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Product Quality
7.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.8★ across 22,157 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 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 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (22,157 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Petco: The Pet Parents Partner
- Developer
- Petco Animal Supplies, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.petco.mobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.petco.com
- 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
- $865/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 growth22,157 ratings+29% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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 Petco app is the Pet Parent's Partner. Use it to expertly pamper your pet both online and in our stores.
GET IT TODAY
You can buy in the app then pick it up at over 1,000 locations across the US. Leverage our Curbside Pickup option to help protect your health and safety while minimizing social exposure by ordering online and getting your items hand-delivered to your car.
PERSONALIZED TO YOUR PETS
Set up your pet and the app becomes your partner, helping you find and access all that you need for your pet.
Manage and track your pet’s complete health and needs.… View full description on the official store →
GET IT TODAY
You can buy in the app then pick it up at over 1,000 locations across the US. Leverage our Curbside Pickup option to help protect your health and safety while minimizing social exposure by ordering online and getting your items hand-delivered to your car.
PERSONALIZED TO YOUR PETS
Set up your pet and the app becomes your partner, helping you find and access all that you need for your pet.
Manage and track your pet’s complete health and needs.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v9.35.1🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Shopping💰 Free📺 Ad-supported
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Tech & Domain Intel — petco.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · AWS SES · Anthropic · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Petco: The Pet Parents Partner: 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: 22,157 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Petco make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Petco earns approximately $864/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 Petco?▴
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Who makes Petco?▴
Petco is published by Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. on the Google Play 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 Petco's BU Score?▴
Petco has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.