Checkbook - Account Tracker
73
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Checkbook - Account Tracker is an iOS app from Nova Mobile, Inc. in the Finance category, currently rated 4.3★ across 14,150 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Finance 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.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
261 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
14,150 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$2.0M
Snapshots tracked
261
since Jul 2024
🤖Also on Android
$304/mo · 9K ratings · 3.8★
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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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (14,150 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v3.7.18
Thanks for using Checkbook!
In this update：
- Minor Bug fixes
We'd love to hear your feedback! If you have any ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. Please reach out to us at checkbook@support.polycents.com
In this update：
- Minor Bug fixes
We'd love to hear your feedback! If you have any ideas or feature requests for future versions of the app, feel free to let us know. Please reach out to us at checkbook@support.polycents.com
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Checkbook - Account Tracker
- Developer
- Nova Mobile, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.btgs.checkbookfree
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- 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
- $2.0M/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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 growth14,285 ratings+3103% 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
An easy & quick way to manage your daily finances, Checkbook keeps track of your credit card charges, cash expenditures...etc. With the Checkbook application, it can totally replace your paper checkbook. You can create multiple accounts, save recurring transactions, transfer funds, view reports & graphs, export data...etc. You can even search the transaction by crossing your finger on the calendar! All details of the Checkbook are well designed to provide an excellent experience. Designed and developed by polycents!
FEATURES
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FEATURES
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 122 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v3.7.18🔄 updated 4mo ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (14y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
17 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
🔧
Shipped update — v3.7.17 → v3.7.18
→ 30 days after: reviews +35 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 4.27 (improved 0.94★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +28 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +28 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$10.7K/mo · rating +0.96★ · reviews +13,630 high confidence
2024-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.08★ · reviews +25 high confidence
2024-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +60 high confidence
2024-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ · reviews +22 medium · co-occurring
2024-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.20★ · reviews +45 medium · co-occurring
2024-09
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.21 → 3.90 (improved 0.69★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +23 high confidence
2024-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.21 (dropped 1.79★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.69★ · reviews +17 medium · co-occurring
2024-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.69★ · reviews +17 medium · co-occurring
2024-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −1.10★ · reviews +30 low · multiple changes
2024-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.80 → 3.33 (dropped 0.47★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.10★ · reviews +30 medium · co-occurring
2024-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.79★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2024-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.67 (dropped 0.83★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.79★ · reviews +13 low · multiple changes
2024-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −1.79★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
2024-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −1.79★ · reviews +13 medium · co-occurring
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$215K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $290K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (122 MB) | +$28K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$47K |
| ⚙ 14.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$88K |
Total estimate
$215K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$41.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $31.0M – $54.0M · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~193× 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 |
| 📅 14.8y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
590K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
38K
Daily active
15K
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
| 📲 Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 📅 14.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
39% 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 | 122 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Finance |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
30%
Last shipped 2026-05-22 · 125 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
| 📅 4 months since last update | Slowing cadence |
Verdict
Slowing
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Checkbook - Account Tracker: 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: 14,150 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Checkbook - Account Tracker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Checkbook - Account Tracker earns approximately $2.0M/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 Checkbook - Account Tracker profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $215K and monthly revenue $2.0M, Checkbook - Account Tracker 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 Checkbook - Account Tracker have?▴
Estimated audience: ~590K lifetime downloads, ~38K monthly active users, and ~15K 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 Checkbook - Account Tracker?▴
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What is Checkbook - Account Tracker built with?▴
Our heuristic places Checkbook - Account Tracker 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 Checkbook - Account Tracker still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (30% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Checkbook - Account Tracker sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $41.5M (marketplace range $31.0M – $54.0M). Calculated as 21× 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 Checkbook - Account Tracker last updated?▴
Checkbook - Account Tracker last shipped a new version on 2026-05-22 — 4 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Checkbook - Account Tracker?▴
Checkbook - Account Tracker is published by Nova Mobile, Inc. 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 Checkbook - Account Tracker's BU Score?▴
Checkbook - Account Tracker has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.