Acne-Safe
53
Quality Score
Solid
Acne-Safe
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Acne-Safe is an iOS app from Acne Solutions NYC INC in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.0★ across 47 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 53: Solid (established niche player). For a Health & Fitness 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~9 months 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 |
| ⚙Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$20K |
Total estimate$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 14× MRR multiple
💸~1.8× 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 |
| ⭐★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple14× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
3.2
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.4
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.98★ across 47 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($8K/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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (47 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 →💾 4 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.11🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid
📝 About this app
Having non-comedogenic skincare, makeup, and hair products is crucial to having clear skin. You might not even be aware that your moisturizer, foundation, or shampoo could be the reason you can’t fully get rid of acne! Comedogenic ingredients are the ingredients that clog your pores, resulting in different types of acne. Our application allows you to easily check whether the product’s ingredient list contains any pore-clogging ingredients, or if the product is safe to use on acne-prone skin.
🆕 What's New · v1.11
Updated the Birth Control tab.
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2023-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2021-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
2020-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.97872★ | 47 | 3.97872★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 8 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.4★ | 5 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 3 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.75★ | 4 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Acne-Safe
- Developer
- Acne Solutions NYC INC
- Bundle ID
- com.acneclinic.acnesafe
- 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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Health & Fitness
- 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 Reviews16 latest · avg 4.06★ · 50.0% 5★ · 12.5% 1★
5★8 (50%)
4★5 (31%)
3★1 (6%)
2★0 (0%)
1★2 (12%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: recommend ×3 love ×3 awesome ×1 amazing ×1 best ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ MWAH
Supa slay😛🪽…
★★★★★ Use this every time I shop for products
As someone with adult acne-prone skin, this is a game changer and I wish I had this when I was a teenager! You can copy and paste the ingredients or look at the full list and over time you get familiarized with what to look out for. I wish …
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Inaccurate results for same product ingredients
I have copied and pasted ingredients and told it’s not pore clogging, then put the same products ingredients in again and it says pore clogging ingredients?? I have purchased products based on this saying it’s not pore clogging only to rech…
★☆☆☆☆ Comedogenic inaccuracy
Shea butter is non comedogenic yet in the app it’s label as comedogenic and olive oil is comedogenic yet it’s labeled as not fix the accuracy…
📈Ratings growth47 ratings+4600% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (18 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
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 47 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
6 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Acne-Safe make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Acne-Safe earns approximately $8.1K/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 Acne-Safe profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $70K and monthly revenue $8.1K, Acne-Safe looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 9 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Acne-Safe?▴
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How much would Acne-Safe sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $75K – $150K). 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.
Who makes Acne-Safe?▴
Acne-Safe is published by Acne Solutions NYC INC 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 Acne-Safe's BU Score?▴
Acne-Safe has a BU Score of 53/100 (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.