PeakFinder
77
Quality Score
Strong
PeakFinder
by PeakFinder GmbH
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
“
PeakFinder is an iOS app from PeakFinder GmbH in the News category, currently rated 4.7★ across 11,529 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a News 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
$18.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$18.6K – $38.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$23.0K – $69.1K
per month
MID 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
135 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
11,529 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$18.0K
Snapshots tracked
135
since Jul 2012
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $375K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~5.0× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
200K
Daily active
90K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$18.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$17.1K – $28.4K
12 months
$18.6K – $38.9K
24 months
$23.0K – $69.1K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $12K - $26K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.71★ across 11,531 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $323K-$575K. Portfolio play ($60K/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:
| Mid install base (11,529 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 |
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 · v4.8.89
Smaller optimizations and bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PeakFinder
- Developer
- PeakFinder GmbH
- Bundle ID
- ch.peakfinder.peakfinder-alps
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
- www.peakfinder.com
- Tagline
- PeakFinder - The mountains are calling!
- Description
- PeakFinder - The mountains are calling!
- 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
- $18.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#18 /100 🇫🇷#22 /100 🇮🇳#27 /100 🇯🇵#31 /100 🇨🇦#47 /100 🇬🇧#60 /100 🇺🇸#68 /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
- Socials
- github github.com/Fabiz/PeakFinder-API
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- peakfinder.com/support
- About page
- peakfinder.com/about/peakfinder
📈Ratings growth11,530 ratings+5524% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇩🇪DE#18 /100
🇫🇷FR#22 /100
🇮🇳IN#27 /100
🇯🇵JP#31 /100
🇨🇦CA#47 /100
🇬🇧GB#60 /100
🇺🇸US#68 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#18 now · best #16 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
The mountains are calling! Explore more mountains than any mountaineer! PeakFinder makes it possible… and shows the names of all mountains and peaks with a 360° panorama display.
This functions completely offline - and worldwide!
PeakFinder knows more than 1'000'000 peaks - from Mount Everest to the little hill around the corner.
•••••••••
Winner of several prizes like 'Best of AppStore', 'App of the Week', …
Highly recommended by macnewsworld.com, nationalgeographic.com, smokinapps.com, outdoor-magazin.com, themetaq.com, digital-geography.com, …
•••••••••
••• Features •••… View full description on the official store →
This functions completely offline - and worldwide!
PeakFinder knows more than 1'000'000 peaks - from Mount Everest to the little hill around the corner.
•••••••••
Winner of several prizes like 'Best of AppStore', 'App of the Week', …
Highly recommended by macnewsworld.com, nationalgeographic.com, smokinapps.com, outdoor-magazin.com, themetaq.com, digital-geography.com, …
•••••••••
••• Features •••… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 43 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v4.8.89🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +5📂 News💰 Paid
📅
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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.8.84 → v4.8.89
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.8.74 → v4.8.84
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.8.71 → v4.8.74
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v4.8.71
→ 30 days after: reviews −2,464 low · multiple changes
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews −2,471 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.69 → 4.70 (improved 1.01★)
→ 30 days after: reviews −2,471 high confidence
2017-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2017-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2017-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ high confidence
2015-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ high confidence
2015-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.21★ · reviews +7 high confidence
2015-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2014-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.86 (dropped 0.47★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.14★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2014-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2012-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.76903★ | 381 | 4.76903★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.64815★ | 54 | 4.64815★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.58263★ | 726 | 4.58263★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.74249★ | 14,019 | 4.74249★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75976★ | 5,245 | 4.75976★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.77392★ | 1,411 | 4.77392★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.65217★ | 115 | 4.65217★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.50291★ | 1,374 | 4.50291★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.70659★ | 11,530 | 4.70659★ this version |
🔔
Track this app’s revenue
FREEGet an email when revenue moves by your threshold. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PeakFinder: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 11,529 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PeakFinder make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PeakFinder 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 PeakFinder profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $60K and monthly revenue $17K, PeakFinder looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 3 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 PeakFinder have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.4M lifetime downloads, ~200K monthly active users, and ~90K 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 PeakFinder?▴
Browse the full News 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.
How much would PeakFinder sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $300K (marketplace range $225K – $375K). 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.
Who makes PeakFinder?▴
PeakFinder is published by PeakFinder GmbH 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 PeakFinder's BU Score?▴
PeakFinder 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.