Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts
84
Quality Score
Excellent
Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts
by Buddy Network GmbH
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts is an iOS app from Buddy Network GmbH in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.9★ across 109,747 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Social Networking 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
$3.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.7M – $5.7M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.4M – $8.2M
per month
BIG tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
116 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
109,747 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$3.5M
Snapshots tracked
116
since Jan 2021
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 (71 MB) | +$8K |
| ⚙ Social Networking complexity ×1.70 | +$41K |
| ⚙ 6.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$40K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$80.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $60.0M – $104.0M · 23× MRR multiple
💸
~571× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅 6.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Social Networking category multiple | +5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
23× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.2M
Daily active
660K
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
| 📲 Social Networking engagement | ~90 installs / rating |
| 📅 6.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Social Networking D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.55 |
DAU / MAU
55% 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 | 71 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Social Networking |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-10 · 14 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
| 📅 14 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$3.5M – $4.7M
12 months
$3.7M – $5.7M
24 months
$4.4M – $8.2M
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
Concerning · 49/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksRevenue Strength
6.5
Product Quality
8.2
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.7
Operational Safety
7.9
Founder Strength
5.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.4M - $7.7M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 109,747 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.46 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $63.0M-$112.0M.
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:
| High install base (109,747 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v6.41
Your friend wants you to receive their notifications. See instantly when they take a drink and where they are.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts
- Developer
- Buddy Network GmbH
- Bundle ID
- app.beerbuddy.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, GA, IT, NB, NN, PL, PT, ES, SV
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
- $3.5M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#91 /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 growth113,708 ratings+25338% 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
🇦🇺
AU
Top-grossing rank: #91 / 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#91 now · best #91 · 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 Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Your friend wants you to get a notification when they take a drink.
Beer Buddy sends real-time alerts when your friends have a drink or head out — and lets you share your own updates with a single tap.
See instantly who’s out, where they are, and what they’re drinking. Stay connected to your close friends in the simplest possible way.
_______
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Get instant drink notifications
See the moment your friends take a drink — and they'll see yours too.
• Check the live friends map
Know who’s out, where they are, and what they’re doing right now.
• Share your moments… View full description on the official store →
Beer Buddy sends real-time alerts when your friends have a drink or head out — and lets you share your own updates with a single tap.
See instantly who’s out, where they are, and what they’re drinking. Stay connected to your close friends in the simplest possible way.
_______
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Get instant drink notifications
See the moment your friends take a drink — and they'll see yours too.
• Check the live friends map
Know who’s out, where they are, and what they’re doing right now.
• Share your moments… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 71 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v6.41🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +9📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (6y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 — v6.37 → v6.41
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,166 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.35 → v6.37
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,079 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v6.33 → v6.35
→ 30 days after: reviews +959 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v6.32 → v6.33
→ 30 days after: reviews +923 high confidence
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +923 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.71 → 4.70 (improved 0.99★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.7K/mo · rating +0.99★ · reviews +108,278 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.7K/mo · rating +0.99★ · reviews +108,278 medium · co-occurring
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.7K/mo · rating +0.99★ · reviews +108,279 medium · co-occurring
2021-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2021-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +42 high confidence
2021-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.09 (dropped 0.91★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +29 high confidence
2021-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +29 high confidence
2021-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.91★ · reviews +46 low · multiple changes
2021-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.91★ · reviews +46 low · multiple changes
2021-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.91★ · reviews +46 low · multiple changes
2021-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.91★ · reviews +46 low · multiple changes
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 700 reviews across 5 markets● 70% positive · ● 11% neutral · ● 19% negative · Rating drift: -0.46★ (declining — recent 50: 4.4★ vs lifetime: 4.86★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.47
🇨🇦 CA
+0.47
🇦🇺 AU
+0.37
🇬🇧 GB
+0.33
🇩🇪 DE
-0.15
Top praise themes
new update ×13 fun fun ×9 social media ×9 super fun ×6 please bring ×6 fun friends ×5 please add ×5 nicht mehr ×5
Top complaint themes
new update ×47 recent update ×8 won let ×8 old version ×7 please change ×7 bring old ×6 see friends ×6 new phone ×6
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.85846★ | 113,944 | 4.85846★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.85229★ | 14,034 | 4.85229★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.6859★ | 9,169 | 4.6859★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.46296★ | 54 | 4.46296★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.77874★ | 14,156 | 4.77874★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.83981★ | 8,846 | 4.83981★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.92931★ | 764 | 4.92931★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.89506★ | 162 | 4.89506★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 109,747 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts earns approximately $3.5M/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 Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $3.5M, Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts have?▴
Estimated audience: ~6.9M lifetime downloads, ~1.2M monthly active users, and ~660K 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 Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts?▴
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What is Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts built with?▴
Our heuristic places Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts 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 Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 14 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $80.0M (marketplace range $60.0M – $104.0M). 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 Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts last updated?▴
Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts last shipped a new version on 2026-09-10 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts?▴
Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts is published by Buddy Network GmbH 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 Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts's BU Score?▴
Beer Buddy - Freunde-Alerts has a BU Score of 84/100 (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.