62
Quality Score
Solid
Garage App Social
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Garage App Social is an iOS app from SDC Marketing Inc in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.3★ across 47 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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- 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
$175K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $235K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~12 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 (178 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$63K |
| ⚙3.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$21K |
Total estimate$175K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $325K · 17× MRR multiple
💸~1.4× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅3.5y proven track record | +18% |
| 🏷Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple17× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
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 | 178 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-05-12 · 13 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
| 📅13 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥Small user base (47 ratings) + 3.5y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictActive
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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, low defensibility moat
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
3.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.9
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.32★ across 47 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($14K/mo combined) commands premium.
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:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (47 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 →💾 178 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v2.1.1🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (3y old)
📝 About this app
GarageApp - Car & Motorcycle Social Network
Connect with car and motorcycle enthusiasts worldwide. Showcase your vehicles, join local car meets, and build your automotive community.
KEY FEATURES:
Events & Car Shows Discover local automotive events, car shows, and meets. See guest lists, add yourself to participant lists, and connect with attendees.
Smart Search Find members and vehicles by brand, model, year, trim, location, or keywords. Discover Porsches in your city, classic Harleys nationwide, or any vehicle that interests you.… View full description on the official store →
Connect with car and motorcycle enthusiasts worldwide. Showcase your vehicles, join local car meets, and build your automotive community.
KEY FEATURES:
Events & Car Shows Discover local automotive events, car shows, and meets. See guest lists, add yourself to participant lists, and connect with attendees.
Smart Search Find members and vehicles by brand, model, year, trim, location, or keywords. Discover Porsches in your city, classic Harleys nationwide, or any vehicle that interests you.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.1.1
Improved layout, bug fixes, and new functions.
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.1.1
2026-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.83 (dropped 0.37★)
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2022-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.18367★ | 49 | 4.18367★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 1★ | 1 | 1★ 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
- Garage App Social
- Developer
- SDC Marketing Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.sdcmedia.garage
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Garage App
- Description
- A community built for car and motorcycle enthusiasts. Find events near you, scenic driving routes, and more.
- 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
- $14.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- 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
- Not found
- helpdesk@garageapp.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- garageapp.com/about-us
📈Ratings growth47 ratings+4600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (13 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 47 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Garage App Social make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Garage App Social earns approximately $14K/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 Garage App Social profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $175K and monthly revenue $14K, Garage App Social looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 12 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Garage App Social?▴
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What is Garage App Social built with?▴
Our heuristic places Garage App Social on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Garage App Social still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 13 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Garage App Social sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $250K (marketplace range $175K – $325K). Calculated as 17× 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 Garage App Social last updated?▴
Garage App Social last shipped a new version on 2026-05-12 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Garage App Social?▴
Garage App Social is published by SDC Marketing 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 Garage App Social's BU Score?▴
Garage App Social has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.