Seek by iNaturalist
70
Quality Score
Strong
Seek by iNaturalist
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Seek by iNaturalist is an iOS app from iNaturalist in the Education category, currently rated 4.8★ across 30,765 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$534/mo · 10K ratings · 3.3★
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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
📈
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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (198 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
👥 Estimated audience size
2.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
465K
Daily active
135K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 55/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.6
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 30,765 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (30,765 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (30 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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 · v2.18.0
Minor updates and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Seek by iNaturalist
- Developer
- iNaturalist
- Bundle ID
- org.inaturalist.iNatLite
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AF, AR, EU, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SI, SK, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK
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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $201/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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 growth30,765 ratings+44% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (3 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
Use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Earn badges for seeing different types of plants, birds, fungi and more!
• Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things
• Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you
• Earn badges for observing different types of species and participating in challenges
OPEN THE CAMERA AND START SEEKING!
Found a mushroom, flower, or bug, and not sure what it is? Open up the Seek Camera to see if it knows!… View full description on the official store →
• Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things
• Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you
• Earn badges for observing different types of species and participating in challenges
OPEN THE CAMERA AND START SEEKING!
Found a mushroom, flower, or bug, and not sure what it is? Open up the Seek Camera to see if it knows!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 198 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.18.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AF, AR, EU, BG, CA +25📂 Education💰 Paid
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75535★ | 30,833 | 4.75535★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.73332★ | 3,671 | 4.73332★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.65137★ | 1,047 | 4.65137★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.6276★ | 1,732 | 4.6276★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.28261★ | 46 | 4.28261★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.73133★ | 2,959 | 4.73133★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.52632★ | 304 | 4.52632★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.34783★ | 115 | 4.34783★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.50495★ | 101 | 4.50495★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Seek by iNaturalist: 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 high confidence: 30,765 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Seek by iNaturalist make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Seek by iNaturalist earns approximately $200/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.
What apps are like Seek by iNaturalist?▴
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Who makes Seek by iNaturalist?▴
Seek by iNaturalist is published by iNaturalist 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 Seek by iNaturalist's BU Score?▴
Seek by iNaturalist has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.