Los Angeles Public Library
41
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Los Angeles Public Library is an iOS app from City of Los Angeles in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 3.2★ across 53 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 41: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID 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
27 snapshots on record
Rating
3.2
Reviews
53 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
27
since Mar 2020
🤖Also on Android
—/mo · 99 ratings · 4.1★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.6y 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 |
| ⚙ 6.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$39K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 6.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 12 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-08-12 · 48 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
| 📅 48 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥 Small user base (53 ratings) + 6.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Slowing
🔬
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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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
Stalled · 39/100MID TIERno growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
2.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.2
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.19★ across 53 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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.
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:
| Below-average rating (3.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (53 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 · v2026.08.00
-Introduces the ability to add your library card to your Apple Wallet
-Moves the barcode for the in-app library card to better accommodate desk mounted scanners
-Addresses bugs around holds appearing as suspendible or cancellable as appropriate… Full release notes →
-Moves the barcode for the in-app library card to better accommodate desk mounted scanners
-Addresses bugs around holds appearing as suspendible or cancellable as appropriate… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Los Angeles Public Library
- Developer
- City of Los Angeles
- Bundle ID
- com.capiratech.lapl
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AM, NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, OM, PL, RU, ZH, SO, ES, TI, ZH, VI
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
- 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.
📈Ratings growth59 ratings+1867% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (27 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.
🚀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
Take the Los Angeles Public Library everywhere you go!
Search the library catalog and reserve items
View upcoming events at your local library branches
Manage your checkouts and holds
Access featured digital resources
and so much more!
Search the library catalog and reserve items
View upcoming events at your local library branches
Manage your checkouts and holds
Access featured digital resources
and so much more!
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 12 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v2026.08.00🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AM, NL, EN, FR, DE +13📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2020 (6y 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.07.00 → v2026.08.00
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.06.01 → v2026.07.00
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.05.00 → v2026.06.01
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.38 → 3.10 (improved 0.72★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.10★ high confidence
2020-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2020-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2020-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
2020-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.10938★ | 64 | 3.10938★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 53 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 Los Angeles Public Library make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Los Angeles Public Library 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 Los Angeles Public Library profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Los Angeles Public Library looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.6 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Los Angeles Public Library?▴
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What is Los Angeles Public Library built with?▴
Our heuristic places Los Angeles Public Library on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (Swift / UIKit).
Is Los Angeles Public Library still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Los Angeles Public Library sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 Los Angeles Public Library last updated?▴
Los Angeles Public Library last shipped a new version on 2026-08-12 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Los Angeles Public Library?▴
Los Angeles Public Library is published by City of Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles Public Library's BU Score?▴
Los Angeles Public Library has a BU Score of 41/100 (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.