Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner
78
Quality Score
Strong
Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner
by Yuca
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner is an iOS app from Yuca in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 98,869 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$30.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$31.8K – $66.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$39.3K – $118.0K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
505 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
98,869 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$30.7K
Snapshots tracked
505
since Oct 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 (205 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 9.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$58K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$600K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $425K – $700K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~4.4× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅 9.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
13.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.4M
Daily active
290K
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 |
| 📅 9.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
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
| 📦 App bundle size | 205 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-18 · 9 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
| 📅 9 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$30.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$29.1K – $48.5K
12 months
$31.8K – $66.5K
24 months
$39.3K – $117K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.5
Product Quality
9.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.4
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $21K - $46K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 98,869 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $552K-$981K.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (98,869 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$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.
🆕 What's New · v5.6
New Liquid Glass design.
Bug fixes and improvements.
Bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner
- Developer
- Yuca
- Bundle ID
- yuca.scanner
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $30.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇫🇷#16 /100 🇺🇸#28 /100 🇬🇧#28 /100 🇦🇺#32 /100 🇨🇦#44 /100 🇩🇪#76 /100
- 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 growth99,629 ratings+22188% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank6 countries
🇫🇷FR#16 /100
🇺🇸US#28 /100
🇬🇧GB#28 /100
🇦🇺AU#32 /100
🇨🇦CA#44 /100
🇩🇪DE#76 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#16 now · best #16 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
◆ 85 MILLION USERS ◆
Yuka is a free mobile app that allows you to scan the barcodes of food and personal care products and instantly see their impact on your health. A rating and detailed information help you understand the analysis of each product.
When a product has a negative impact on your health, Yuka also recommends similar but healthier alternative products.
◆ A 100% INDEPENDENT PROJECT ◆
Yuka is a 100% independent project : product reviews and recommendations of healthier alternatives are done in an objective way. No brand or manufacturer can influence them in one way or another.… View full description on the official store →
Yuka is a free mobile app that allows you to scan the barcodes of food and personal care products and instantly see their impact on your health. A rating and detailed information help you understand the analysis of each product.
When a product has a negative impact on your health, Yuka also recommends similar but healthier alternative products.
◆ A 100% INDEPENDENT PROJECT ◆
Yuka is a 100% independent project : product reviews and recommendations of healthier alternatives are done in an objective way. No brand or manufacturer can influence them in one way or another.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 205 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.5+🔖 v5.6🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, PT +1📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v5.3 → v5.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,632 high confidence
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 6 of 11 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,632 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.2 → v5.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,419 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.83 → v5.2
→ 30 days after: revenue −$8.6K/mo · reviews +3,538 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,060 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.23 → 4.82 (improved 0.59★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,060 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$980/mo · reviews +30 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.23 → 4.80 (improved 0.57★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$980/mo · reviews +30 high confidence
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.8K/mo · rating +0.08★ · reviews +143 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.7K/mo · reviews +112 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.6K/mo · rating −0.37★ · reviews +110 high confidence
2025-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.9K/mo · rating −0.83★ · reviews +89 medium · co-occurring
2025-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.9K/mo · rating −0.83★ · reviews +89 medium · co-occurring
2025-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.7K/mo · rating −0.84★ · reviews +81 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
6 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-08-21
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-08-21
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-08-21
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-08-21
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-08-21
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-08-21
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #33Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
barcode scanner·#33🇺🇸calorie counter·#40🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — yuka.io
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81655★ | 99,979 | 4.81655★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.84131★ | 27,727 | 4.84131★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.78653★ | 11,505 | 4.78653★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.72241★ | 295,533 | 4.72241★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.83729★ | 28,499 | 4.83729★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.83866★ | 13,580 | 4.83866★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.94444★ | 72 | 4.94444★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 98,869 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner earns approximately $30K/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 Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $30K, Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 4 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner have?▴
Estimated audience: ~13.5M lifetime downloads, ~1.4M monthly active users, and ~290K 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 Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner?▴
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 Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner built with?▴
Our heuristic places Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $600K (marketplace range $425K – $700K). Calculated as 19× 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 Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner last updated?▴
Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner last shipped a new version on 2026-09-18 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner?▴
Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner is published by Yuca 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 Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner's BU Score?▴
Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.