1-800 Contacts
80
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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1-800 Contacts is an iOS app from 1-800 CONTACTS, Inc. in the Medical category, currently rated 4.9★ across 143,227 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Medical app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
123 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
143,227 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
123
since Jun 2020
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.8y 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 |
| ⚙ Medical complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 14.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$86K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 24× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 14.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Medical category multiple | +12% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
24× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
345K
Daily active
69K
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
| 📲 Medical engagement | ~55 installs / rating |
| 📅 14.4y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Medical D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 45 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Medical |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-05 · 30 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
| 📅 30 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.8
Market Position
0.6
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.88★ across 143,227 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($24K/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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (143,227 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$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 · v11.2.1
Updates to Savings Finder to help you find all of your savings and insurance benefits!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- 1-800 Contacts
- Developer
- 1-800 CONTACTS, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.1800contacts.1800contacts
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Medical
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Medical
- 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 growth143,165 ratings+29851% 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 Quarter12 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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 1-800 Contacts app is for people who want to check “renew my contact lens prescription” and “order contacts” off their list quickly! We see you. We’re here for you. Let’s do this.
- Access the largest in-stock inventory of contact lenses anywhere. If your doctor prescribed it, we carry it (and sell it for less).
- Simple ordering: scan your contact lens box or search for your brand
- Get your contacts fast with next business-day shipping
- Expired contact lens prescription? Renew it with our 10-minute in-app vision exam, ExpressExam.… View full description on the official store →
- Access the largest in-stock inventory of contact lenses anywhere. If your doctor prescribed it, we carry it (and sell it for less).
- Simple ordering: scan your contact lens box or search for your brand
- Get your contacts fast with next business-day shipping
- Expired contact lens prescription? Renew it with our 10-minute in-app vision exam, ExpressExam.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 45 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v11.2.1🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Medical💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
25 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 →
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v11.1.6 → v11.2.1
→ 30 days after: reviews −16 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v11.1.2 → v11.1.6
→ 30 days after: reviews −35 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v11.1.1 → v11.1.2
→ 30 days after: reviews −15 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v11.1.0 → v11.1.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v11.0.9 → v11.1.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −13 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v11.0.7 → v11.0.9
→ 30 days after: reviews −15 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v11.0.6 → v11.0.7
→ 30 days after: reviews −27 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v11.0.5 → v11.0.6
→ 30 days after: reviews −32 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v11.0.4 → v11.0.5
→ 30 days after: reviews −24 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v11.0.3 → v11.0.4
→ 30 days after: reviews −13 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v11.0.2 → v11.0.3
→ 30 days after: reviews −5 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews −5 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.2K/mo · rating +1.05★ · reviews +142,741 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.85 → 4.90 (improved 1.05★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.2K/mo · rating +1.05★ · reviews +142,741 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.2K/mo · rating +1.05★ · reviews +142,741 medium · co-occurring
2021-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +15 high confidence
2021-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +30 medium · co-occurring
2020-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2020-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +15 high confidence
2020-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +8 high confidence
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.87908★ | 143,153 | 4.87908★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.65686★ | 102 | 4.65686★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for 1-800 Contacts: 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: 143,227 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does 1-800 Contacts make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, 1-800 Contacts earns approximately $5.0K/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 1-800 Contacts profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $5.0K, 1-800 Contacts looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does 1-800 Contacts have?▴
Estimated audience: ~5.5M lifetime downloads, ~345K monthly active users, and ~69K 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 1-800 Contacts?▴
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What is 1-800 Contacts built with?▴
Our heuristic places 1-800 Contacts on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is 1-800 Contacts still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would 1-800 Contacts sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $150K). Calculated as 24× 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 1-800 Contacts last updated?▴
1-800 Contacts last shipped a new version on 2026-10-05 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes 1-800 Contacts?▴
1-800 Contacts is published by 1-800 CONTACTS, 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 1-800 Contacts's BU Score?▴
1-800 Contacts has a BU Score of 80/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.