Whole Foods Market
40
Quality Score
Emerging
Whole Foods Market
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Whole Foods Market is an iOS app from Whole Foods Market Services, Inc. in the Shopping category, currently rated 2.2★ across 3,924 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 40: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Shopping app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$617
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$540 – $1945
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$500 – $4501
per month
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$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 |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
390K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
46K
Daily active
8.3K
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
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$617/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$526 – $1.2K
12 months
$540 – $1.9K
24 months
$500 – $4.5K
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
Pre-traction · 34/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
3.9
Revenue Strength
2.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $247 - $1543/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.17★ across 3,924 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 213d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $11K-$19K.
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:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (3,924 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v13.5.5
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Whole Foods Market
- Developer
- Whole Foods Market Services, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.wholefoods.WholeFoods
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Whole Foods Market UK
- Description
- Get hungry for local, organic, plant-based & more. Browse products, find recipes. Get delivery, pick up & order catering.
- 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
- $618/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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 growth3,924 ratings+33% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 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.
📝 About this app
Browse sales, order lunch and dinner, discover products, and build your shopping list — all in the Whole Foods Market app.
Scan Your In-Store Code
Now the In-Store Code does even more. Scan to apply Prime savings for an extra 10% off sale items (excluding alcohol) plus special deals on seasonal favorites. You can even scan your code at the register to pay at select stores. No service? No problem. Access the code offline.
Browse Sales
Discover weekly sales from your local store, then save them to your shopping list to make your next trip even easier.… View full description on the official store →
Scan Your In-Store Code
Now the In-Store Code does even more. Scan to apply Prime savings for an extra 10% off sale items (excluding alcohol) plus special deals on seasonal favorites. You can even scan your code at the register to pay at select stores. No service? No problem. Access the code offline.
Browse Sales
Discover weekly sales from your local store, then save them to your shopping list to make your next trip even easier.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 26 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v13.5.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 →
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.27 → 2.17 (improved 0.90★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.50 → 2.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2022-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #19Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
amazon shopping·#19🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Whole Foods Market: 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: 3,924 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Whole Foods Market make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Whole Foods Market earns approximately $617/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 Whole Foods Market?▴
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Who makes Whole Foods Market?▴
Whole Foods Market is published by Whole Foods Market Services, 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 Whole Foods Market's BU Score?▴
Whole Foods Market has a BU Score of 40/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.