Gratitude Plus – Journal
80
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Gratitude Plus – Journal is an iOS app from Redwheel Apps in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.9★ across 15,232 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Health & Fitness app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
505 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
15,232 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
505
since Oct 2025
🤖Also on Android
—/mo · 726 ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.0y 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 (59 MB) | +$3K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$21K |
| ⚙ 7.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$45K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 23× MRR multiple
💸
~1.0× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 7.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
23× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
745K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
105K
Daily active
36K
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 📅 7.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% sticky
🛠 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 | 59 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Health & Fitness |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-04 · 22 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
| 📅 22 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 15,232 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($15K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (15,232 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v3.10.44
What's new:
- Monthly Recap - Look back on your month with a new recap experience! (premium feature)
- Search bar on top of My Entries with the ability to filter your gratitudes by newest, oldest, or by date added.
- Long-press the + button for quick actions.… Full release notes →
- Monthly Recap - Look back on your month with a new recap experience! (premium feature)
- Search bar on top of My Entries with the ability to filter your gratitudes by newest, oldest, or by date added.
- Long-press the + button for quick actions.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Gratitude Plus – Journal
- Developer
- Redwheel Apps
- Bundle ID
- com.RedwheelApps.GratitudePlus
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#85 /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 growth18,677 ratings+4088% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #85 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#85 now · best #85 · 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
Gratitude Plus is the best way to build and maintain a consistent habit of gratitude for a healthier and happier life. Combining science-based mental health tools and community support, Gratitude Plus makes it easy to reflect on your day while deepening connections with the people you care about most.
With Gratitude Plus, you can…
- Keep a private, personal Gratitude Journal
- Create or join Gratitude Circles with your partner, family, and/or friends
- See “memories” of gratitudes you’ve shared in the past
- Push yourself creatively with a variety of prompts… View full description on the official store →
With Gratitude Plus, you can…
- Keep a private, personal Gratitude Journal
- Create or join Gratitude Circles with your partner, family, and/or friends
- See “memories” of gratitudes you’ve shared in the past
- Push yourself creatively with a variety of prompts… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 59 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v3.10.44🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 — v3.10.40 → v3.10.44
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,166 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.10.38 → v3.10.40
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,661 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.10.33 → v3.10.38
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,441 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v3.10.33
→ 30 days after: reviews +666 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +666 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$15.1K/mo · rating +0.19★ · reviews +13,918 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$164/mo · reviews +154 high confidence
2025-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$178/mo · reviews +167 high confidence
2025-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$150/mo · rating −0.41★ · reviews +142 low · multiple changes
2025-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.25 (dropped 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$143/mo · rating −0.40★ · reviews +135 low · multiple changes
2025-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$137/mo · rating −0.40★ · reviews +129 medium · co-occurring
2025-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$137/mo · rating −0.40★ · reviews +129 medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.82182★ | 275 | 4.82182★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.91667★ | 12 | 4.91667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.77114★ | 721 | 4.77114★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.72222★ | 36 | 4.72222★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.84615★ | 39 | 4.84615★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.84887★ | 311 | 4.84887★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.84615★ | 26 | 4.84615★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.86195★ | 19,029 | 4.86195★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Gratitude Plus – Journal: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 100% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 15,232 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Gratitude Plus – Journal make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Gratitude Plus – Journal earns approximately $5.0K/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 Gratitude Plus – Journal profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Gratitude Plus – Journal looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Gratitude Plus – Journal have?▴
Estimated audience: ~745K lifetime downloads, ~105K monthly active users, and ~36K 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 Gratitude Plus – Journal?▴
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What is Gratitude Plus – Journal built with?▴
Our heuristic places Gratitude Plus – Journal 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 Gratitude Plus – Journal still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 22 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Gratitude Plus – Journal sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $75K – $150K). Calculated as 23× 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 Gratitude Plus – Journal last updated?▴
Gratitude Plus – Journal last shipped a new version on 2026-09-04 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Gratitude Plus – Journal?▴
Gratitude Plus – Journal is published by Redwheel Apps 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 Gratitude Plus – Journal's BU Score?▴
Gratitude Plus – Journal has a BU Score of 80/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.