Calorie Counter by fatsecret
78
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Calorie Counter by fatsecret is an iOS app from fatsecret in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 14,668 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. 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
$17.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$17.7K – $37.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$21.9K – $65.6K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
177 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
14,668 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$17.1K
Snapshots tracked
177
since Jul 2024
🤖Also on Android
$608/mo · 545K ratings · 4.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$180K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $135K – $245K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~11 months 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 (171 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 16.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$100K |
Total estimate
$180K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~1.8× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 16.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
82K
Daily active
16K
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 |
| 📅 16.8y 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 · 60%
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 | 171 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-11 · 17 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
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$17.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$16.2K – $27.0K
12 months
$17.7K – $37.0K
24 months
$21.9K – $65.6K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $11K - $25K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 14,668 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 = $307K-$546K. Portfolio play ($31K/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 15 of 16 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (14,668 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (23 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 |
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 · v11.8.3
In this release:
- Incidental bug fixes and app optimizations.
- Incidental bug fixes and app optimizations.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Calorie Counter by fatsecret
- Developer
- fatsecret
- Bundle ID
- com.fatsecret.caloriecounter
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
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
- $17.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#79 /100
- 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 growth15,032 ratings+3263% 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 Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇧🇷
BR
Top-grossing rank: #79 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#79 now · best #79 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀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
Welcome to fatsecret, the easiest to use calorie counter and most effective weight loss and dieting app on the market. Best of all, fatsecret is free.
The app is customized for US foods and brands.
Keep track of your food, exercise and weight, using the world's highest quality food and nutrition database and connect with a global community of people looking to make a change for the better and start losing weight and achieve your goals the healthy way.
The app is available on Apple Watch and supports terrific Complications for your watch faces.… View full description on the official store →
The app is customized for US foods and brands.
Keep track of your food, exercise and weight, using the world's highest quality food and nutrition database and connect with a global community of people looking to make a change for the better and start losing weight and achieve your goals the healthy way.
The app is available on Apple Watch and supports terrific Complications for your watch faces.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 171 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v11.8.3🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, FI +18📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v11.7 → v11.8.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +273 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v11.6.1 → v11.7
→ 30 days after: reviews +517 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v11.5.1 → v11.6.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +518 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v11.4.1 → v11.5.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +524 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +250 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue −$818K/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews −13,133 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$495/mo · reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2024-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.8K/mo · reviews +29 medium · co-occurring
2024-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.9K/mo · reviews +64 medium · co-occurring
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.1K/mo · reviews +35 high confidence
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.4K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +39 high confidence
2024-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.4K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +39 high confidence
2024-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.91 → 4.58 (dropped 0.33★)
2024-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2024-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #6Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
calorie food·#6🇺🇸calorie counter·#9🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — fatsecret.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.69243★ | 1,255 | 4.69243★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.86774★ | 22,334 | 4.86774★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.69658★ | 3,019 | 4.69658★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.7291★ | 8,564 | 4.7291★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.69273★ | 6,805 | 4.69273★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.74671★ | 2,357 | 4.74671★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.71753★ | 570 | 4.71753★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.37298★ | 496 | 4.37298★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.7389★ | 15,117 | 4.7389★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Calorie Counter by fatsecret: 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: 14,668 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Calorie Counter by fatsecret make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Calorie Counter by fatsecret earns approximately $17K/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 Calorie Counter by fatsecret profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $180K and monthly revenue $17K, Calorie Counter by fatsecret looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 11 months 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 Calorie Counter by fatsecret have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.0M lifetime downloads, ~82K monthly active users, and ~16K 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 Calorie Counter by fatsecret?▴
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What is Calorie Counter by fatsecret built with?▴
Our heuristic places Calorie Counter by fatsecret on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Calorie Counter by fatsecret still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Calorie Counter by fatsecret sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). 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 Calorie Counter by fatsecret last updated?▴
Calorie Counter by fatsecret last shipped a new version on 2026-09-11 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Calorie Counter by fatsecret?▴
Calorie Counter by fatsecret is published by fatsecret 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 Calorie Counter by fatsecret's BU Score?▴
Calorie Counter by fatsecret has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.