55
BU Score
Solid
Car Mate - OBD2 CAR Scanner
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Car Mate - OBD2 CAR Scanner is an iOS app from Ihar Katkavets in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 34 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 55 — Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 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:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Multilingual (25 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (34 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 21 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.8.2🔄 updated 7mo ago🌐 SQ, BG, CS, DA, NL +20📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (3y old)
📝 About this app
Car Mate is a universal vehicle scanner which works according to OBD2 standard.
The application works with WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 LE adapters.
Requirements:
1. You need ELM327 Bluetooth 4.0 LE or Wi-Fi adapter to connect to a vehicle using this application.
2. Your vehicle can contain some ECUs (electronic control modules), so don't forget to check all ECUs.
3. ELM adapters version 2.1 are often can be corrupted, so try to choose version 1.5 if you have a chose.
Quick start guide for ELM327 adapters:
1. Download the app
2. Plug in ELM327 adapter into 16-pin diagnostic connector in your vehicle
3. Switch ON the ignition
4. Discover your WiFi or Bluetooth ELM adapter in the app settings
5. Select discovered ELM327 adapter and press 'Connect'
You can make scanning and diagnosing using the application Car Mate and Wi-Fi ELM327/BLE ELM327.
The application works with WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 LE adapters.
Requirements:
1. You need ELM327 Bluetooth 4.0 LE or Wi-Fi adapter to connect to a vehicle using this application.
2. Your vehicle can contain some ECUs (electronic control modules), so don't forget to check all ECUs.
3. ELM adapters version 2.1 are often can be corrupted, so try to choose version 1.5 if you have a chose.
Quick start guide for ELM327 adapters:
1. Download the app
2. Plug in ELM327 adapter into 16-pin diagnostic connector in your vehicle
3. Switch ON the ignition
4. Discover your WiFi or Bluetooth ELM adapter in the app settings
5. Select discovered ELM327 adapter and press 'Connect'
You can make scanning and diagnosing using the application Car Mate and Wi-Fi ELM327/BLE ELM327.
🆕 What's New · v1.8.2
Bugs fixing and stabilization
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Car Mate - OBD2 CAR Scanner
- Developer
- Ihar Katkavets
- Bundle ID
- com.katkavets.obd2client
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- SQ, BG, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, SK, ES, SV, 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
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1781301520
📈Ratings growth34 ratings+183% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (13 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.
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