65
BU Score
Solid
BuyNothing
✍️ bumetric analysis
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BuyNothing is an iOS app from Buy Nothing Project, Inc. in the Social Networking category, currently rated 4.3★ across 2,047 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Social Networking app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,047 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (4y 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.
💚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 →💾 68 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.0.19🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Social Networking💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2021 (4y old)
📝 About this app
We offer people a way to give, receive, share, lend, borrow and express gratitude through a hyper-local gift economy model in which people can share wherever they are and true wealth is measured by the web of connections formed between people through sharing.
From the founders of the BuyNothing® Project.
Terms of Use: https://buynothingproject.org/terms
From the founders of the BuyNothing® Project.
Terms of Use: https://buynothingproject.org/terms
🆕 What's New · v3.0.19
• Fixed dark mode display issues throughout the app
• You can now add more than 5 images to a post
• Improved community feed to load all posts beyond the first page
• Added a toggle on Explore to view fulfilled posts
• Fixed copy/paste functionality in messages
• User badges now render correctly
• Improved bottom navigation bar touch responsiveness
• Updated "like" action color for better visibility
• Added ability to include links and buttons in Update posts
• You can now add details when reporting content
• Fixed scrolling when shipping notification card is present
• Various UI and layout improvements across the app
• You can now add more than 5 images to a post
• Improved community feed to load all posts beyond the first page
• Added a toggle on Explore to view fulfilled posts
• Fixed copy/paste functionality in messages
• User badges now render correctly
• Improved bottom navigation bar touch responsiveness
• Updated "like" action color for better visibility
• Added ability to include links and buttons in Update posts
• You can now add details when reporting content
• Fixed scrolling when shipping notification card is present
• Various UI and layout improvements across the app
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BuyNothing
- Developer
- Buy Nothing Project, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.sharething.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Social Networking
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- buynothingproject.org
- Tagline
- By the Numbers
- Description
- Join the Buy Nothing Project, a global community for giving and getting stuff, completely for free. Discover what neighbors are giving away, share gives and asks, and find a new home for what you no longer need.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $9.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Social Networking
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- https://linkedin.com/company/the-buy-nothing-project/
- 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
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- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook · instagram · linkedin
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://buynothingproject.org/contact
- About page
- https://buynothingproject.org/about
📈Ratings growth2,047 ratings+118% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for BuyNothing: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.