How much does My Lists make per month?

Our model estimates My Lists earns roughly $2.1K/mo, but with only 26 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.

What apps are like My Lists?

Browse the full Productivity 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 My Lists built with?

Our heuristic places My Lists on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).

Is My Lists still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 26 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was My Lists last updated?

My Lists last shipped a new version on 2026-08-31 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

My Lists is published by Neal Colston 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 My Lists's BU Score?

My Lists has a BU Score of 55/100 (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.

My Lists

Quality Score

Solid

My Lists

Name: My Lists — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: My Lists revenue, My Lists app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Productivity revenue, iOS app revenue

by Neal Colston

Low confidence

4.3 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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My Lists is an iOS app from Neal Colston in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.3★ across 26 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 55: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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.

📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

64 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.3

Reviews

26 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$2.1K

Snapshots tracked

since Jul 2008

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 10 of 10 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Paid app ($0.00)METRIC		+$2,800
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
Good rating (4.3★)METRIC		+$800
Established app (7y old)METRIC		+$800
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400
Pre-traction phase (26 ratings)METRIC		−$300

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 · v3.9

Completely rewritten in modern Swift and SwiftUI which makes it faster and more reliable.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name: My Lists
Developer: Neal Colston
Bundle ID: Not found
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Productivity
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

Reported revenue signal / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
Model estimate / mo: $2.1K/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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 growth27 ratings+-71% 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.

💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)

🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked

🚀Version Release Timeline2 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

Proudly NOT collecting your private data for over a decade — We debuted on the App Store on July 13th, 2008. Not once have we asked users to sign away data about themselves or their lists. Updated to latest version of iOS and iPadOS.

Make lists for anything you need from shopping lists to movies to ideas for your novel, notes for a class to restaurants to try. Add images to your list items with the Photo Checklists option or keep track of notes with the Notes View to help manage larger amounts of data.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 6 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.6+🔖 v3.9🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

12 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

📦

Bundle ↓ 24MB → 6MB — likely major code refresh

2026-09

📸

Refreshed store screenshots — 10 of 10 updated

2026-08

🔧

Shipped update — v3.1.5 → v3.9

2026-06

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.30 → 3.96 (dropped 0.34★)

2026-06

💲

Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 3.28 → 4.30 (improved 1.02★)

2009-01

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.0K/mo high confidence

2008-07

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.1K/mo · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring

2008-07

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.1K/mo · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring

2008-07

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2008-07

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

2008-07

⭐

Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)

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Store Page History

10 SCREENSHOT CHANGES

Every time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.

iPad screenshots

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$100K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $75K – $135K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~3.9y 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
⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10	+$5K
⚙ 7.6y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$45K

Total estimate $100K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$40K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 18× MRR multiple

💸 ~0.4× 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
📅 7.6y proven track record	+20%
🏷 Productivity category multiple	+8%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple 18× MRR

🛠 Estimated tech stack

🍎

Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)

High confidence · 80%

Also possible

Native iOS (SwiftUI)

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	6 MB
🏷 Category context	Productivity
📦 Compact iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Active

15%

Last shipped 2026-08-31 · 26 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