Barcodes: Loyalty Card Wallet
72
Quality Score
Strong
Barcodes: Loyalty Card Wallet
by Small Colossus PTY LTD
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Barcodes: Loyalty Card Wallet is an iOS app from Small Colossus PTY LTD in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 982 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Shopping app, that means healthy traction. 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
$6.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$6.0K – $21.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$5.5K – $49.6K
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
115 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
982 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$6.8K
Snapshots tracked
115
since Mar 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.8y 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 (172 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 4.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$28K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× 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 |
| 📅 4.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
75K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.5K
Daily active
1.3K
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 4.7y of rating accumulation | -23% |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
17% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 172 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-06 · 64 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
| 📅 64 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$5.8K – $13.5K
12 months
$6.0K – $21.5K
24 months
$5.5K – $49.6K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 47/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Product Quality
6.6
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 982 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $122K-$217K. Portfolio play ($54K/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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (33 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (982 ratings)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.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v2.6.8
Fix:
- Fix Apple Wallet migration sometimes reporting a failure
- Fix the Apple Wallet migration prompt reappearing after you'd already moved your passes in some cases
If Barcodes is useful to you, please leave a review and let me know!
- Fix Apple Wallet migration sometimes reporting a failure
- Fix the Apple Wallet migration prompt reappearing after you'd already moved your passes in some cases
If Barcodes is useful to you, please leave a review and let me know!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Barcodes: Loyalty Card Wallet
- Developer
- Small Colossus PTY LTD
- Bundle ID
- com.barcodesapp.Barcodes
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, 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
- $6.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#13 /100 🇯🇵#21 /100 🇨🇦#33 /100 🇬🇧#49 /100 🇩🇪#51 /100 🇫🇷#62 /100 🇮🇳#87 /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 growth1,172 ratings+749% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇦🇺AU#13 /100
🇯🇵JP#21 /100
🇨🇦CA#33 /100
🇬🇧GB#49 /100
🇩🇪DE#51 /100
🇫🇷FR#62 /100
🇮🇳IN#87 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#13 now · best #13 · worst #14
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter7 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline7 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
Say goodbye to bulky wallets and hello to convenience with Barcodes - the ultimate digital wallet! Barcodes is the privacy-friendly solution to store and manage all your QR codes, barcodes, loyalty cards, reward cards, and gym membership tags in one place.
With Barcodes, you can easily scan and store your cards using your device's camera or import them directly from your photo library - even screenshots will work seamlessly! Plus, with iCloud storage and sync, you can access your cards across all your devices without needing a separate account.
Key Features:… View full description on the official store →
With Barcodes, you can easily scan and store your cards using your device's camera or import them directly from your photo library - even screenshots will work seamlessly! Plus, with iCloud storage and sync, you can access your cards across all your devices without needing a separate account.
Key Features:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 172 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.6.8🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 AR, CA, HR, CS, DA +28📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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 — v2.6.6 → v2.6.8
→ 30 days after: reviews +64 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v2.6.5 → v2.6.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +45 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2.6.3 → v2.6.5
→ 30 days after: revenue +$28.7K/mo · reviews +59 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.6.2 → v2.6.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$28.7K/mo · reviews +57 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.6.1 → v2.6.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +61 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2.5.6 → v2.6.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +62 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +50 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +38 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$388/mo high confidence
2025-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$892/mo · reviews +5 high confidence
2024-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.5K/mo · rating −0.18★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2024-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.9K/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +16 low · multiple changes
2023-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$167/mo · rating −0.10★ high confidence
2023-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.88 (dropped 0.45★)
2023-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.86 (dropped 0.47★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$322/mo · rating −0.45★ low · multiple changes
2022-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.33 (dropped 0.47★)
2022-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$384/mo · rating +0.25★ medium · co-occurring
2022-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$384/mo · rating +0.25★ medium · co-occurring
2022-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$384/mo · rating +0.25★ medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66931★ | 505 | 4.66931★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.63971★ | 680 | 4.63971★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.53307★ | 514 | 4.53307★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.47191★ | 89 | 4.47191★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.7568★ | 588 | 4.7568★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 11 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.14286★ | 21 | 4.14286★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75875★ | 1,198 | 4.75875★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Barcodes: Loyalty Card Wallet: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 982 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Barcodes make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Barcodes earns approximately $6.8K/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 Barcodes profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $6.8K, Barcodes looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Barcodes have?▴
Estimated audience: ~75K lifetime downloads, ~7K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Barcodes?▴
Browse the full Shopping category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Barcodes built with?▴
Our heuristic places Barcodes on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Barcodes still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Barcodes sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $175K). Calculated as 19× 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 Barcodes last updated?▴
Barcodes last shipped a new version on 2026-09-06 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Barcodes?▴
Barcodes is published by Small Colossus PTY LTD 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 Barcodes's BU Score?▴
Barcodes has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.