Sainsbury's
72
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Sainsbury's is an iOS app from Sainsbury's in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 752 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Shopping app, that means healthy traction. 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
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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
47 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
752 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
47
since Oct 2016
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.6y 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 (105 MB) | +$21K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$21K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
75K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.0K
Daily active
1.6K
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
🔬
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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 752 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($18K/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 9 of 9 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (752 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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 · v4.0.0
We've made a few behind the scenes improvements to keep your shopping experience smooth and reliable. This update includes general bug fixes and performance enhancements to help you get your groceries faster and easier.
We'd love to hear your feedback as we continue to improve.… Full release notes →
We'd love to hear your feedback as we continue to improve.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sainsbury's
- Developer
- Sainsbury's
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.sainsburys.groceries
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.sainsburys.co.uk
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/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 growth749 ratings+74800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (47 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter7 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline7 releases tracked
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
Save time. Save money. Shop your way.
The Sainsbury’s app brings together everything you need to shop with Sainsbury’s, whether you’re planning your weekly shop, shopping in-store, collecting Nectar rewards or getting groceries delivered fast.
With the Sainsbury’s app you can:
• Shop groceries online and book delivery or Click & Collect slots
• Unlock personalised offers, Nectar Prices and rewards
• Use SmartShop to scan as you shop and stay in control of your spend
• Create shopping lists and save favourites for quicker repeat shops… View full description on the official store →
The Sainsbury’s app brings together everything you need to shop with Sainsbury’s, whether you’re planning your weekly shop, shopping in-store, collecting Nectar rewards or getting groceries delivered fast.
With the Sainsbury’s app you can:
• Shop groceries online and book delivery or Click & Collect slots
• Unlock personalised offers, Nectar Prices and rewards
• Use SmartShop to scan as you shop and stay in control of your spend
• Create shopping lists and save favourites for quicker repeat shops… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 105 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v4.0.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
17 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v3.65.0 → v3.67.0
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.64.0 → v3.65.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.62.0 → v3.64.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$18.8K/mo · reviews +7 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.61.0 → v3.62.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$18.8K/mo high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.60.0 → v3.61.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v3.58.0 → v3.60.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.64 → 4.70 (improved 2.06★)
2020-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.19★ medium · co-occurring
2020-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.27★ low · multiple changes
2019-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.25 → 2.56 (improved 0.31★)
2019-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.86 → 2.25 (improved 0.39★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.70★ low · multiple changes
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.20 → 1.86 (improved 0.66★)
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.20 → 1.83 (improved 0.63★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.66★ medium · co-occurring
2018-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.13★ high confidence
2016-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.76159★ | 755 | 4.76159★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.71849★ | 227,478 | 4.71849★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.75806★ | 62 | 4.75806★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.73256★ | 86 | 4.73256★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.65714★ | 35 | 4.65714★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.79518★ | 83 | 4.79518★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.7549★ | 102 | 4.7549★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.87805★ | 41 | 4.87805★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.78289★ | 152 | 4.78289★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Sainsbury's: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 752 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Sainsbury's make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sainsbury's earns approximately $5.0K/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 Sainsbury's profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Sainsbury's looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.6 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Sainsbury's have?▴
Estimated audience: ~75K lifetime downloads, ~9K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Sainsbury's?▴
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How much would Sainsbury's sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 16× 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.
Who makes Sainsbury's?▴
Sainsbury's is published by Sainsbury's 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 Sainsbury's's BU Score?▴
Sainsbury's has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.