How much does Rafter Help make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Rafter Help earns approximately $5.2K/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 Rafter Help profitable?

With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $5.2K, Rafter Help looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

How many users does Rafter Help have?

Estimated audience: ~42K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~740 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 Rafter Help?

Browse the full Utilities 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 Rafter Help built with?

Our heuristic places Rafter Help on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).

Is Rafter Help still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Rafter Help sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 Rafter Help last updated?

Rafter Help last shipped a new version on 2019-11-08 — more than 6 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Rafter Help?

Rafter Help is published by Armchair Engineering 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 Rafter Help's BU Score?

Rafter Help has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.

Rafter Help

Quality Score

Solid

Rafter Help

Name: Rafter Help — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Rafter Help revenue, Rafter Help app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

by Armchair Engineering

Medium confidence

4.8 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Rafter Help is an iOS app from Armchair Engineering in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 307 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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

$5.2K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$5.4K – $11.4K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$6.7K – $20.2K

per month

MID tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

18 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.8

Reviews

307 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$5.2K

Snapshots tracked

since Oct 2015

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$110K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $80K – $150K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~1.8y 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
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-7575
⚙ 11.2y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$67K

Total estimate $110K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$100K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 17× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.9× 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
📅 11.2y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 17× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

42K

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

3.7K

Daily active

740

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

📲 Utilities engagement	~200 installs / rating
📅 11.2y of rating accumulation	-30%
🔁 Utilities D30 retention	20%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.20

DAU / MAU 20% sticky

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Native iOS (SwiftUI)

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	6 MB
🏷 Category context	Utilities
📦 Compact iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

95%

Last shipped 2019-11-08 · 2512 days ago

0 · Active 50 · At risk 100 · 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

📅 6y+ since last update	Likely abandoned
👥 Small user base (307 ratings) + 11.2y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)
• 11y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

Verdict Likely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$5.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$5.0K – $8.3K

12 months

$5.4K – $11.4K

24 months

$6.7K – $20.2K

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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peers

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

6.5

Product Quality

6.7

Revenue Strength

3.7

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

7.5

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

7.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 307 reviews — solid.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2511d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2511d since update).

🎯 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 = $94K-$167K. Portfolio play ($10K/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

MODEL

Revenue 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 5 of 5 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
Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (11y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Early-stage install base (307 ratings)METRIC		+$400
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v1.5.2

- Fixed floating keyboard bug, present on some devices running iOS 13

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Rafter Help
Developer: Armchair Engineering
Bundle ID: Not found
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 4+
Languages: EN

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Not found
Description: Not found
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $5.2K/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 growth213 ratings+21200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (18 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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.

💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)

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

Rafter Help is the easiest way to calculate rafter length and associated values when building!

Quickly find roof pitch, rafter lengths and ridge height for gable roofs, based on room and ridge width. 
Or calculate length values with more control from the Advanced tab.

Features Include: 

- Accurately solve rafter equations
- Enter pitch steepness in radians, decimal degrees or degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS) or rise/run (e.g. 8/12)
- Enter lengths in mm, cm, inches or feet
- Select your preferred number of decimal places

App Specs

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💾 6 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v1.5.2🔄 updated 6y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)

📅

What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

9 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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

💲

Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 2.17 → 4.80 (improved 2.63★)

2026-03

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2021-02

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2021-02

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.78 → 2.10 (improved 0.32★)

2020-05

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.43 → 1.88 (improved 0.45★)

2016-12

⭐

Rating ↓ 2.50 → 2.00 (dropped 0.50★)

2016-09

⭐

Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)

2015-10

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.51316★	76	4.51316★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	0★	0	—
🇨🇦 CA	4.05★	20	4.05★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	3★	1	3★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	5★	1	5★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.75549★	319	4.75549★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	3★	1	3★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	0★	0	—
🇺🇸 US	4.50704★	213	4.50704★ this version

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📝 Description

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