CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State
69
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State is an iOS app from Workman Consulting LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 10,327 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG 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
143 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
10,327 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
143
since Mar 2014
🤖Also on Android
$510/mo · 3K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙ 15.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$91K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$11.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~81× 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 |
| 📅 15.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.4M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
56K
Daily active
11K
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 |
| 📅 15.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% 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 | 22 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
77%
Last shipped 2025-08-09 · 411 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
| 📅 1y 1mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| • 15y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 55/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.0
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 10,327 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 407d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (407d 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (10,327 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v4.1.3
-Updated to latest IOS
-Added ability to automatically update license availability
-Added additional information and context on Duty to Inform
-Minor display / navigation improvements
-Updated instructions for "My Permits"
-Added ability to automatically update license availability
-Added additional information and context on Duty to Inform
-Minor display / navigation improvements
-Updated instructions for "My Permits"
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State
- Developer
- Workman Consulting LLC
- Bundle ID
- ccw
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $600K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.76★ · 61.2% 5★ · 22.4% 1★
5★30 (61%)
4★2 (4%)
3★3 (6%)
2★3 (6%)
1★11 (22%)
+10 ratings/week
Praise: great ×16 excellent ×4 recommend ×4 best ×3 fantastic ×2Complaints: subscription ×7 terrible ×1 refund ×1 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Greatest concealed app I have ever seen
Always keeps me up to date about the tolitarian states of America and always keeps me safe great app!!!! Only a dollar a year!!!!!! Come on fantastic…
★★★★★ Excellent CCW App
This app is fantastic! Easy to navigate and find laws regarding CC laws, as well as states with reciprocity. It is constantly updated with all court cases, whether ongoing, or decided. Thank you for the great app!…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t do anything
I could just Google everything this app does. Waste of money. Waste of space on phone.…
★☆☆☆☆ Recharged repeatedly
No way to contact…
📈Ratings growth10,348 ratings+2430% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+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.
📝 About this app
This comprehensive app empowers the law-abiding CCW (concealed or open carry permit) holder (or anyone who wants to lawfully transport a firearm in any state.) It gives you direct information needed to follow the maze of arcane, complicated, and dissimilar gun laws in each state and in each situation. Easy-to-use User Interface and Laws & reciprocity updated monthly or more frequently!
Join the 200,000+ people who have already downloaded the #1 gun reference app on Apple App Store!
Key Features:
-Instant updates downloaded to your device with laws changes! Auto-update now available!… View full description on the official store →
Join the 200,000+ people who have already downloaded the #1 gun reference app on Apple App Store!
Key Features:
-Instant updates downloaded to your device with laws changes! Auto-update now available!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 22 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v4.1.3🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📅
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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +58 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +58 medium · co-occurring
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$447/mo · rating +0.44★ · reviews +9,710 high confidence
2025-08
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v4.1.3
2015-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2014-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +10 high confidence
2014-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2014-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2014-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.08★ · reviews +5 high confidence
2014-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.08★ · reviews +5 high confidence
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84671★ | 10,353 | 4.84671★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State: 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: 10,327 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State earns approximately $600K/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 CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $600K, CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.4M lifetime downloads, ~56K monthly active users, and ~11K 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 CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State?▴
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What is CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State built with?▴
Our heuristic places CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State 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 CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (77% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $11.0M (marketplace range $8.5M – $14.5M). 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 CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State last updated?▴
CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State last shipped a new version on 2025-08-09 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State?▴
CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State is published by Workman Consulting 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 CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State's BU Score?▴
CCW – Concealed Carry 50 State has a BU Score of 69/100 (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.