Potatso 2
40
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Potatso 2 is an iOS app from Potatso Lab LTD in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.1★ across 77 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 Utilities 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
$2.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.5K – $8.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.3K – $20.7K
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
36 snapshots on record
Rating
3.1
Reviews
77 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$2.8K
Snapshots tracked
36
since Apr 2017
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.9y 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 |
| ⚙ 9.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$56K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 |
| 📅 9.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 45 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2017-12-11 · 3212 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
| 📅 8y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (77 ratings) + 9.5y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.8K/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
$2.4K – $5.6K
12 months
$2.5K – $8.9K
24 months
$2.3K – $20.7K
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 · 37/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
2.4
Revenue Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $7K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.06★ across 77 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3209d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3209d 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 = $51K-$90K. Portfolio play ($9K/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 6 of 6 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Pre-traction phase (77 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 · v2.9.0
This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.
Add support for Shadowsocks SIP002 scheme
Add support for Shadowsocks SIP002 scheme
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Potatso 2
- Developer
- Potatso Lab LTD
- Bundle ID
- com.touchingapp.potatsoii
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ZH
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
- $2.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.18★ · 40.8% 5★ · 30.6% 1★
5★20 (41%)
4★4 (8%)
3★5 (10%)
2★5 (10%)
1★15 (31%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×7 awesome ×3 best ×2 recommend ×1 amazing ×1Complaints: bug ×6 refund ×1 hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ 用了很长时间的lite，特别购买表示支持开发者
Lite版虽然有广告，但是很好用…
★★★★★ 很好。
不错。能不能添加订阅跟URL功能。谢谢…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ 落後了
好久不更新…
★☆☆☆☆ Please update
Please update…
📈Ratings growth77 ratings+1440% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (36 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 → $2.99 (+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
Potatso is an ultimate networking tool for iOS platform. It helps improve your network experience with a lot of functionalities support.
====== Feature ======
- Various supported proxy types
- Custom Network Rules
- Custom DNS
- Multiple Profile
- Network Request Log
- iCloud Sync
- Cellar/Wi-Fi support
- Today Widget
====== About ======
Manual: https://manual.potatso.com
For app-use related feedback, please post through "Feedback" inside the app
Other questions please contact on hi@potatso.com
====== Feature ======
- Various supported proxy types
- Custom Network Rules
- Custom DNS
- Multiple Profile
- Network Request Log
- iCloud Sync
- Cellar/Wi-Fi support
- Today Widget
====== About ======
Manual: https://manual.potatso.com
For app-use related feedback, please post through "Feedback" inside the app
Other questions please contact on hi@potatso.com
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 45 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v2.9.0🔄 updated 8y ago🌐 EN, ZH📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.31 → 3.00 (dropped 0.31★)
2019-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ high confidence
2017-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ high confidence
2017-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.67★ high confidence
2017-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 4 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.2★ | 5 | 3.2★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.71429★ | 7 | 3.71429★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.06494★ | 77 | 3.06494★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 77 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 Potatso 2 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Potatso 2 earns approximately $2.8K/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 Potatso 2 profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $100K and monthly revenue $2.8K, Potatso 2 looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.9 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Potatso 2?▴
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What is Potatso 2 built with?▴
Our heuristic places Potatso 2 on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Potatso 2 still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Potatso 2 sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $35K (marketplace range $25K – $45K). Calculated as 12× 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 Potatso 2 last updated?▴
Potatso 2 last shipped a new version on 2017-12-11 — more than 8 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Potatso 2?▴
Potatso 2 is published by Potatso Lab LTD 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 Potatso 2's BU Score?▴
Potatso 2 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.