eBay online shopping & selling
87
Quality Score
Excellent
eBay online shopping & selling
by eBay Inc.
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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This iOS application targets the broad online marketplace sector, facilitating both buying and selling of new and used goods. Its direct competitors include other C2C and B2C platforms like Amazon, Etsy, and local classifieds apps. The substantial number of user ratings, coupled with a very high average score, indicates robust user engagement and strong market penetration. This suggests the app is well past its initial growth phase and firmly established as a mature, high-traction platform. For the Shopping category, while this specific app is free, many successful competitors leverage commission-based models on sales, often with tiered seller subscriptions or optional listing enhancements as common upgrade paths, rather than direct app purchases or traditional advertising.
BU Score 87 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Forecast monthly revenue
—/mo
Founder-confirmed monthly revenue
BIG tierFREE
💡 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
507 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
4,969,434 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
507
since Jan 2026
🤖Also on Android
$103/mo · 5.0M ratings · 4.5★
View →
📊
BU Investment Matrix
High risk · 28/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)structural problemsGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
0.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Pre-revenue or unknown — $0 - $0/mo · BIG tier · high confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.82★ across 4,969,434 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 10.0% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: No verified revenue — acquisition only makes sense for tech / userbase / brand.
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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (4,969,434 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (7y 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 · v6.280.0
Bug fixes and performance improvements. We are listening! Shake your phone if you experience a problem with the app or want to send us feedback about your experience on eBay.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- eBay online shopping & selling
- Developer
- eBay Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.ebay.iphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- CS, NL, EN, FR, DE, HU, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- www.ebay.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 growth4,969,395 ratings+1109140% 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 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 Quarter6 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline6 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
It's all here
For over 30 years, eBay has been a leading online shopping destination and the trusted marketplace where millions of buyers and sellers connect every day. Whether you're looking to buy vintage fashion, electronics, shoes, clothes, rare, or hard-to-find items, you can get them on the eBay shopping app.
Discover collectibles, luxury handbags, jewelry, watches, trading cards, home goods, auto parts, refurbished tech, and everyday essentials.… View full description on the official store →
For over 30 years, eBay has been a leading online shopping destination and the trusted marketplace where millions of buyers and sellers connect every day. Whether you're looking to buy vintage fashion, electronics, shoes, clothes, rare, or hard-to-find items, you can get them on the eBay shopping app.
Discover collectibles, luxury handbags, jewelry, watches, trading cards, home goods, auto parts, refurbished tech, and everyday essentials.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 441 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v6.280.0🔄 updated 7y ago🌐 CS, NL, EN, FR, DE +10📂 Utilities💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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 →
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v6.274.0 → v6.279.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +214 medium · co-occurring
2026-09
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Shipped update — v6.269.0 → v6.274.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +700 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v6.266.0 → v6.269.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +190 high confidence
2026-07
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Shipped update — v6.261.0 → v6.266.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −503 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 9 of 14 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews −207 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v6.256.0 → v6.261.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −373 low · multiple changes
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v6.256.0
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +1,221 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +1,387 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.55 → 4.70 (improved 3.15★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +1,387 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +3.16★ · reviews +4,967,601 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +297 medium · co-occurring
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +296 low · multiple changes
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.54★ · reviews +273 low · multiple changes
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.54★ · reviews +263 low · multiple changes
2026-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.53★ · reviews +255 low · multiple changes
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Store Page History
9 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPad screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
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2026-06-19
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
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Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
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Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #6Ranked for 3 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
marketplace·#6🇺🇸thrift·#9🇺🇸amazon shopping·#10🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 50 reviews across 1 markets● 30% positive · ● 0% neutral · ● 70% negative · Rating drift: -3.22★ (declining — recent 50: 1.6★ vs lifetime: 4.82★)
Top praise themes
— no recurring praise themes
Top complaint themes
linked account ×4 address linked ×3 account restricted ×3 fees ×16 seller ×14 money ×11 now ×10 sellers ×10
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 10.0% Bug mentions: 6% Fraud / scam mentions: 8.0%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.72735★ | 750,745 | 4.72735★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.77055★ | 27,528 | 4.77055★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.64913★ | 148,552 | 4.64913★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.69898★ | 1,090,534 | 4.69898★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.66669★ | 186,712 | 4.66669★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.75338★ | 2,260,741 | 4.75338★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.45275★ | 5,206 | 4.45275★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.64248★ | 15,658 | 4.64248★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.81632★ | 4,969,475 | 4.81632★ this version |
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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 (441 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 7.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$46K |
Total estimate
$125K
👥 Estimated audience size
695.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
90.5M
Daily active
18.0M
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 7.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | 441 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
88%
Last shipped 2019-01-31 · 2839 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
| 📅 7y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for eBay online shopping & selling: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 4,969,434 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow many users does eBay online shopping & selling have?▴
Estimated audience: ~695.5M lifetime downloads, ~90.5M monthly active users, and ~18.0M 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 eBay online shopping & selling?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 eBay online shopping & selling built with?▴
Our heuristic places eBay online shopping & selling on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is eBay online shopping & selling still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 7+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was eBay online shopping & selling last updated?▴
eBay online shopping & selling last shipped a new version on 2019-01-31 — more than 7 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes eBay online shopping & selling?▴
eBay online shopping & selling is published by eBay 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 eBay online shopping & selling's BU Score?▴
eBay online shopping & selling has a BU Score of 87/100 (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.