10
Quality Score
Niche
Gas Rate Calculator
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Gas Rate Calculator is an iOS app from Little App Company in the Business category, currently rated — across few ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 10: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Business app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$1.1K/mo
In 12 months
$923 – $3326
In 24 months
$855 – $7695
INDIE tierFREE
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- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~12 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 |
| ⚙Business complexity ×1.50 | +$25K |
| ⚙15.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$92K |
Total estimate$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $375K · 20× MRR multiple
💸~1.6× 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 |
| 📅15.5y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple20× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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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 | 5 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Business |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
93%
Last shipped 2016-03-24 · 3712 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅10y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| •15y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$899 – $2.1K
12 months
$923 – $3.3K
24 months
$855 – $7.7K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 33/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
0.0
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $422 - $2639/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: None★ across 0 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3709d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3709d 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 = $19K-$33K. Portfolio play ($14K/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 3 of 3 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 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 7.0+🔖 v2.2🔄 updated 10y ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📝 About this app
Domestic Gas Rate Calculator for calculating gas rates for Gas Service Engineers and Installers.
The application calculates gas rating for Imperial and Metric gas meters up to 16 cubic metres.
You can now email the results too.
*** This app has been No 1 in the UK recently ***
The application calculates gas rating for Imperial and Metric gas meters up to 16 cubic metres.
You can now email the results too.
*** This app has been No 1 in the UK recently ***
🆕 What's New · v2.2
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
- Bug Fix
- Bug Fix
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Voice of Customer
Based on 49 reviews across 1 markets● 90% positive · ● 6% neutral · ● 4% negative · Rating drift: +0.00★ (stable — recent 50: 4.2★ vs lifetime: 4.2★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
easy ×10 it's ×6 saves ×5 stars ×4 sizing ×4 makes ×3 now ×3 allow ×3
Top complaint themes
reading ×3 open ×3 now ×3 one ×3 phone ×3 doesn't ×3 price ×3
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2★ | 1 | 2★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Gas Rate Calculator
- Developer
- Little App Company
- Bundle ID
- com.littleappcompany.GasRate
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- 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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $14.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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.
🌍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 → $4.99 (+0%)
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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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Gas Rate Calculator: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Gas Rate Calculator make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Gas Rate Calculator earns approximately $14K/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 Gas Rate Calculator profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $14K, Gas Rate Calculator looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 12 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Gas Rate Calculator?▾
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What is Gas Rate Calculator built with?▾
Our heuristic places Gas Rate Calculator 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 Gas Rate Calculator still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (93% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 10+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Gas Rate Calculator sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $275K (marketplace range $225K – $375K). Calculated as 20× 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 Gas Rate Calculator last updated?▾
Gas Rate Calculator last shipped a new version on 2016-03-24 — more than 10 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Gas Rate Calculator?▾
Gas Rate Calculator is published by Little App Company 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 Gas Rate Calculator's BU Score?▾
Gas Rate Calculator has a BU Score of 10/100 (Niche). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.