68
Quality Score
Solid
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
Why medium confidence: 8,221 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is an Android app from The Malnati Organization in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 8,221 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 Food & Drink 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$831/mo
In 12 months
$727 – $2621
In 24 months
$674 – $6063
INDIE tier
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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
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$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 |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$30K |
| ⚙10.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$60K |
Total estimate$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $20K · 21× 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 |
| 📅10.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
575K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
41K
Daily active
8.2K
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 |
| 📅10.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
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
| 🏷Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-04-23 · 31 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
| 📅31 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$831/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$708 – $1.7K
12 months
$727 – $2.6K
24 months
$674 – $6.1K
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
Early-stage solo · 42/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $332 - $2079/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 3,857 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 = $14K-$26K.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (8,221 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v8.0.3🔄 updated 1mo ago📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📝 About this app
Considered the oldest family name in Chicago-style pizza, Lou Malnati’s pizza is rich in history and flavor. Since 1971, our signature Chicago-style deep dish and tavern-style thin crust pizzas use a made-from-scratch family recipe that has been refined through the generations. Today, Lou Malnati’s offers much more than just pizza. We offer salads, pasta, desserts, sandwiches, wings, appetizers, limited edition items, and much more. Whether you’re dining with the family or out on a dinner date, the Lou Malnati's app is the easiest way to order your favorite items on the go.… View full description on the official store →
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
- Developer
- The Malnati Organization
- Bundle ID
- com.thanx.loumalnatis
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.loumalnatis.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
- $832/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 growth8,221 ratings+27% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria earns approximately $831/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 Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $831, Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria have?▾
Estimated audience: ~575K lifetime downloads, ~41K monthly active users, and ~8K 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 Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria?▾
Browse the full Food & Drink category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria built with?▾
Our heuristic places Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria 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 Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $15K (marketplace range $15K – $20K). Calculated as 21× 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 Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria last updated?▾
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria last shipped a new version on 2026-04-23 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria?▾
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is published by The Malnati Organization 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 Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria's BU Score?▾
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria 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.