Payback - Mobile
28
Quality Score
Niche
Payback - Mobile
by Payback - Mobile
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Payback - Mobile is an iOS app from Payback - Mobile in the Shopping category, currently rated 1.3★ across 93 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 28: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Shopping app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE 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
26 snapshots on record
Rating
1.3
Reviews
93 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
26
since Nov 2016
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$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 |
| ⚙ 9.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$59K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$5K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.0× 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 |
| 📅 9.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
🛠 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 | 0 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2024-08-21 · 764 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
| 📅 2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (93 ratings) + 9.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/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
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 32/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.7
Product Quality
1.1
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.33★ across 93 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 763d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (763d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($4K/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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| Below-average rating (1.3★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (93 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v1.1
Added Privacy Policy
Added Terms of Service
Redesign Pages
Recharge Functionality
Added Terms of Service
Redesign Pages
Recharge Functionality
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Payback - Mobile
- Developer
- Payback - Mobile
- Bundle ID
- com.PayBackBookmobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $500/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 growth93 ratings+9200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (26 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.
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
Small towns, big savings...
Payback Mobile helps people in small towns save money...while raising money for local schools...and promoting area businesses.
Great local savings at your favorite restaurants, retail stores, attractions, day spas, grocery stores and more!
Simply present your cell phone screen to area merchants and enjoy the fantastic Payback savings!
Payback has proudly supported the communities of Vancouver/Clark County, Wash and Boulder County, CO since 2001 and is expanding in 2017 to other small towns near you!
Have questions? Contact us at info@paybackmobile.com.
Payback Mobile helps people in small towns save money...while raising money for local schools...and promoting area businesses.
Great local savings at your favorite restaurants, retail stores, attractions, day spas, grocery stores and more!
Simply present your cell phone screen to area merchants and enjoy the fantastic Payback savings!
Payback has proudly supported the communities of Vancouver/Clark County, Wash and Boulder County, CO since 2001 and is expanding in 2017 to other small towns near you!
Have questions? Contact us at info@paybackmobile.com.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 378 KB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.1🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.33 (improved 0.33★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 1.33 → 1.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2024-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$19.3K/mo · reviews +8 high confidence
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.12 → 1.63 (dropped 0.49★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$7.2K/mo · rating −0.05★ high confidence
2023-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.29 → 2.12 (dropped 1.17★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$30.3K/mo · rating −0.49★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2023-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$30.3K/mo · rating −0.49★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2023-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$55.8K/mo · rating −1.66★ · reviews +23 low · multiple changes
2022-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.29 (dropped 0.38★)
2020-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.67 (dropped 0.53★)
2019-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2016-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 1.33333★ | 93 | 1.33333★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 93 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Payback - Mobile make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Payback - Mobile earns approximately $500/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 Payback - Mobile profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $500, Payback - Mobile 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.
What apps are like Payback - Mobile?▴
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What is Payback - Mobile built with?▴
Our heuristic places Payback - Mobile 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 Payback - Mobile still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Payback - Mobile sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $5.0K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 14× 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 Payback - Mobile last updated?▴
Payback - Mobile last shipped a new version on 2024-08-21 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Payback - Mobile?▴
Payback - Mobile is published by Payback - Mobile 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 Payback - Mobile's BU Score?▴
Payback - Mobile has a BU Score of 28/100 (Niche). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.