How much does Yelp make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Yelp earns approximately $600K/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.

With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $600K, Yelp 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 Yelp have?

Estimated audience: ~275.5M lifetime downloads, ~36.5M monthly active users, and ~7.3M 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 Yelp?

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 Yelp built with?

Our heuristic places Yelp 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 Yelp still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

How much would Yelp sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $11.5M (marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M). 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 Yelp last updated?

Yelp last shipped a new version on 2026-09-16 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Yelp is published by Yelp 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 Yelp's BU Score?

Yelp has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.

Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews

Quality Score

Strong

Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews

Name: Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews revenue, Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

by Yelp

High confidence

4.5 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

“

This iOS utility app firmly occupies the local discovery and review niche, directly competing with Google Maps and TripAdvisor for user attention when seeking businesses. Its substantial user rating, paired with millions of individual ratings, signals robust, long-term traction and a mature product. This isn't a growth-stage app; it’s an established platform with a massive, active user base. Given its free monetization model, revenue likely stems from advertising and business-side subscriptions, rather than direct consumer payments. For the Utilities category, a common monetization observation is the potential for premium features offered via subscription, such as enhanced analytics for business owners or ad-free experiences for power users, which could further diversify revenue streams beyond its current ad-centric approach.

BU Score 77 · Strong — healthy traction. 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.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$600K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$635K – $978K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$759K – $1410K

per month

BIG tier

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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

6 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.5

Reviews

1,968,704 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$600K

Snapshots tracked

since Apr 2026

🤖Also on Android

Yelp: Food, Delivery & Reviews

$183/mo · 655K ratings · 4.6★

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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

📈 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 (317 MB)	+$40K
⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85	$-13575
⚙ 7.6y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$45K

Total estimate $125K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$11.5M

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M · 19× MRR multiple

💸 ~92× 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
📅 7.6y proven track record	+20%
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid)	+8%
🏷 Utilities category multiple	-10%
⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings)	+8%

Final multiple 19× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

275.5M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

36.5M

Daily active

7.3M

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
📅 7.6y 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	317 MB
🏷 Category context	Utilities
📦 Large iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets

💀 Maintenance status

Active

Last shipped 2026-09-16 · 8 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

📅 8 days since last update

Active development

Verdict Active

🔬

How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$591K – $800K

12 months

$635K – $978K

24 months

$759K – $1.4M

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 · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarks

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

4.9

Product Quality

9.1

Revenue Strength

5.8

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

5.4

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 1,968,704 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
⚠️ 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

High install base (1,968,704 ratings)METRIC		+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC		+$2,200
Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
Established app (7y old)METRIC		+$800
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v26.38.1

Minor updates and improvements, making Yelp better for you one release at a time.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews
Developer: Yelp
Bundle ID: com.yelp.yelpiphone
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 12+
Languages: CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, MS, NB, PL, PT, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR

Company

Website: Not found
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: $600K/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.

🌍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 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

Yelp has over 199 million reviews of businesses worldwide. Whether you’re looking for a new pizza place to try, a great coffee shop nearby, or need to book a haircut, Yelp is your local guide for finding the perfect place to eat, shop, drink, explore, and relax. The Yelp app is available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

Yelp features:

Food Near You - Find Restaurants
• Find the newest and hottest restaurants in your area
• Make reservations, order delivery or pickup—all from your phone
• Filter restaurant search results by price, location, open now, and more… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 317 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v26.38.1🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +13📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)

📅

What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

7 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 — v26.34.0 → v26.38.1

→ 30 days after: reviews +27,455 medium · co-occurring

2026-08

🔧

Shipped update — v26.29.0 → v26.34.0

→ 30 days after: reviews +59,983 medium · co-occurring

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v26.24.0 → v26.29.0

→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · reviews +68,852 high confidence

2026-06

🔧

Shipped update — v26.20.0 → v26.24.0

→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · reviews +72,360 high confidence

2026-05

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: reviews +36,036 medium · co-occurring

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v? → v26.20.0

→ 30 days after: reviews +1,960,906 low · multiple changes

2026-04

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: reviews +1,924,870 high confidence

🔎

ASO Keyword Positions

BEST RANK #4

Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.

restaurant finder·#4🇺🇸

Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	3.88302★	1,949	3.88302★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.61735★	622	4.61735★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.13842★	28,072	4.13842★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.01726★	3,303	4.01726★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.16009★	1,293	4.16009★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	3.92682★	2,159	3.92682★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.60286★	559	4.60286★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.41488★	2,191	4.41488★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.53864★	2,061,905	4.53864★ this version

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📝 Description

BU Score · Transcendent

Full revenue analysis

Read the article-style breakdown for Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.

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