Grocery Pal (List & Savings)
60
Quality Score
Solid
Grocery Pal (List & Savings)
by AisleCat LLC
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Grocery Pal (List & Savings) is an iOS app from AisleCat LLC in the Shopping category, currently rated 3.6★ across 631 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
💡 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
92 snapshots on record
Rating
3.6
Reviews
631 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
92
since May 2014
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| ⚙ 16.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$101K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 16.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
44K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.0K
Daily active
180
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 |
| 📅 16.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🛠 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 | 26 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2022-10-21 · 1466 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
| 📅 4y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| • 17y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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
Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
5.1
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.61★ across 631 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1465d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1465d since update).
🎯 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($29K/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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (631 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v4.0.17
Fixed an issue in list item quantity editing with decimal points.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Grocery Pal (List & Savings)
- Developer
- AisleCat LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.twicular.twiculariphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- 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
- $500/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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 growth630 ratings+88% 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.
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
Grocery Pal is a great way to get organized for your weekly shopping activities and find savings from your favorite stores. Its all-new Premium version takes Grocery Pal to a whole new level.
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Featured on NBC Today Show and ABC Good Morning America.
From New York Times:
"Apps like Grocery Pal can show digital coupons for items on your list..."
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Quotes from our users:
"Best app for my kitchen!"
"First app that allows me to get the best prices from all my local grocery stores!"
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1) Organize… View full description on the official store →
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Featured on NBC Today Show and ABC Good Morning America.
From New York Times:
"Apps like Grocery Pal can show digital coupons for items on your list..."
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Quotes from our users:
"Best app for my kitchen!"
"First app that allows me to get the best prices from all my local grocery stores!"
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1) Organize… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 26 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v4.0.17🔄 updated 4y ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y old)
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 →
2025-11
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$758/mo · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2015-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.2K/mo · reviews +23 low · multiple changes
2014-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$356/mo · reviews +7 high confidence
2014-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$916/mo · rating +0.09★ · reviews +18 high confidence
2014-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$646/mo · reviews +13 high confidence
2014-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$442/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2014-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.00 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$788/mo · rating −0.22★ · reviews +16 high confidence
2014-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$345/mo · rating −0.17★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2014-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$345/mo · rating −0.17★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2014-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$345/mo · rating −0.17★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #24Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
grocery list·#24🇺🇸shopping list·#31🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Grocery Pal (List & Savings): 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: 631 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Grocery Pal (List & Savings) make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Grocery Pal (List & Savings) earns approximately $500/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 Grocery Pal (List & Savings) profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $500, Grocery Pal (List & Savings) looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Grocery Pal (List & Savings) have?▴
Estimated audience: ~44K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~180 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 Grocery Pal (List & Savings)?▴
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 Grocery Pal (List & Savings) built with?▴
Our heuristic places Grocery Pal (List & Savings) 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 Grocery Pal (List & Savings) still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Grocery Pal (List & Savings) sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). Calculated as 16× 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 Grocery Pal (List & Savings) last updated?▴
Grocery Pal (List & Savings) last shipped a new version on 2022-10-21 — more than 4 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Grocery Pal (List & Savings)?▴
Grocery Pal (List & Savings) is published by AisleCat LLC 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 Grocery Pal (List & Savings)'s BU Score?▴
Grocery Pal (List & Savings) has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.