PINES (Georgia)
54
Quality Score
Solid
PINES (Georgia)
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
“
PINES (Georgia) is an iOS app from Kenneth Cox in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.3★ across 17 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player. 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
$134
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$67 – $625
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$67 – $1873
per month
MICRO tierFREE
💡 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
Loading…
Rating
—
Reviews
—
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~1.3y 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 |
| ⚙Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $35K – $75K · 14× MRR multiple
💸~0.9× 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 |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple14× MRR
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$134/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$85 – $341
12 months
$67 – $625
24 months
$67 – $1.9K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 31/100MICRO TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)too early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.1
Product Quality
1.9
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.5
Operational Safety
4.6
Founder Strength
4.6
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.29★ across 17 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.23 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $1K-$2K. Portfolio play ($3K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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:
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (17 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 9 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v4.6.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
📝 About this app
PINES gives you access to more than 275 libraries across Georgia. To use this app, you must have a library card with a PINES member library and know your password.
PINES lets you:
* Search the catalog
* Place a hold on an item
* Renew items you have checked out
Problem? Send email to kenstir.apps@gmail.com
Development of this software has been sponsored by Georgia PINES. This app is open source! If you have the means and the interest to contribute, head on over to https://github.com/kenstir/hemlock-ios
PINES lets you:
* Search the catalog
* Place a hold on an item
* Renew items you have checked out
Problem? Send email to kenstir.apps@gmail.com
Development of this software has been sponsored by Georgia PINES. This app is open source! If you have the means and the interest to contribute, head on over to https://github.com/kenstir/hemlock-ios
🆕 What's New · v4.6.0
* Allow patron to receive push notifications on multiple devices for the same account
* Handle public catalog alert banners containing HTML
* Handle public catalog alert banners containing HTML
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.06 → 4.30 (improved 1.24★)
2019-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 3.00 (improved 0.33★)
2019-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2018-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2018-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 31 reviews across 1 markets● 74% positive · ● 3% neutral · ● 23% negative · Rating drift: -1.23★ (declining — recent 50: 3.06★ vs lifetime: 4.29★)
Top praise themes
due date ×4 placing holds ×3 lists ×9 books ×8 check ×6 feature ×5 convenient ×4 searching ×4
Top complaint themes
library ×7 barcode ×5 log ×4 login ×4 give ×4 one ×4 hold ×4 system ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 10%
🔔
Track this app’s revenue
FREEGet an email when revenue moves by your threshold. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PINES (Georgia)
- Developer
- Kenneth Cox
- Bundle ID
- net.kenstir.apps.pines
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- 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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $3.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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 Reviews30 latest · avg 3.0★ · 16.7% 5★ · 23.3% 1★
5★5 (17%)
4★7 (23%)
3★8 (27%)
2★3 (10%)
1★7 (23%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: love ×6 great ×6 amazing ×1 best ×1Complaints: crash ×2 bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Error on Sign in Page
I was asked by my local library to contact the app directly regarding an issue I’m having. When opening the app I periodically get an Error that says “Error decoding OSRF object: Class “au” is not registered.” I just dismiss it to continue …
★★★★★ Lists. Android has them.
Update: FIXED! Yay! Thank you. Lists are very important to people who use library apps frequently, especially during quarantine, when I’m doing all my book searching on the app. I just switched from an Android and lost the ability to view/m…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Is the whole system down?
Cannot log into Pines on this app or with browser…
★☆☆☆☆ No longer opening
I have loved this app for years, but for the past 2 weeks it will no longer open. It sits on the login screen with a spinny circle like it’s thinking but does nothing.…
📈Ratings growth17 ratings+1600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (32 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
More by Kenneth Cox
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$3K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 98% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 17 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
PINES (Georgia) is a small / niche iOS app in the food & drink space with weak public traction — only 17 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PINES (Georgia) make per month?▴
Our model estimates PINES (Georgia) earns roughly $3.5K/mo, but with only 17 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like PINES (Georgia)?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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.
Who makes PINES (Georgia)?▴
PINES (Georgia) is published by Kenneth Cox 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 PINES (Georgia)'s BU Score?▴
PINES (Georgia) has a BU Score of 54/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.