52
BU Score
Solid
General DB
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General DB is an iOS app from Portable Databases in the Business category, currently rated 4.6★ across 21 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Business 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 5 of 5 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 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (21 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 21 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v5.12🔄 updated 4y ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y old)
📝 About this app
General DB is a general-purpose database app that lets you record information quickly and easily.
Try our FREE Private DB app to get a feel for General DB before you buy.
For example, if you have a bottle collection, you could make a table with these fields: Date Acquired, Bottle Type, Bottle Origin, Shape, Notes. Then whenever you add a new bottle to your collection, you can add a row to the table describing it.
If you want to track visits to different vacation sites, you can make a table with fields for the Date Visited, Location, Description, and Attraction.… View full description on the official store →
Try our FREE Private DB app to get a feel for General DB before you buy.
For example, if you have a bottle collection, you could make a table with these fields: Date Acquired, Bottle Type, Bottle Origin, Shape, Notes. Then whenever you add a new bottle to your collection, you can add a row to the table describing it.
If you want to track visits to different vacation sites, you can make a table with fields for the Date Visited, Location, Description, and Attraction.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v5.12
- Regular expressions in SQL, such as:
SELECT * FROM Maintenance WHERE Description REGEXP '^Fixed'
- SQLite 3.36.0
SELECT * FROM Maintenance WHERE Description REGEXP '^Fixed'
- SQLite 3.36.0
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- General DB
- Developer
- Portable Databases
- Bundle ID
- com.portabledatabases.generaldb
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.portabledatabases.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
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Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews24 latest · avg 4.17★ · 62.5% 5★ · 8.3% 1★
5★15 (62%)
4★3 (12%)
3★3 (12%)
2★1 (4%)
1★2 (8%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×4 awesome ×3 love ×2 recommend ×2 fantastic ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Cool app
I can easily keep track of my miles per gallon each time I
put gas in the car instead of writing it down in my book like I used to.…
★★★★★ Most useful iPhone app? Possibly
I started using this app just a few days ago and it has quickly become my favorite app. It is fast, accurate, and very fun to use. Definitely recommended for every iPhone.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Magic
Took a simple to use app and made a total mess in the latest upgrade,
Of course after I bought the up grade!…
★☆☆☆☆ nothing but a spreadsheet with an extra location aware field
i tried out this app on the developer's advice before downloading the paid version, major general db. what caught my attention was the ability to use some sql statements. so naturally I thought that it had some real database capabiliti…
📈Ratings growth21 ratings+2000% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (26 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.
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Read the article-style breakdown for General DB: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.