Costco
84
Quality Score
Excellent
Costco
by Costco Wholesale Corporation
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Costco is an iOS app from Costco Wholesale Corporation in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.9★ across 1,295,905 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities 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
$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
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
1,295,905 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
506
since Dec 2025
🤖Also on Android
$17/mo · 444K ratings · 4.8★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$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 (214 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $7.5M – $13.0M · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~133× 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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
259.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
51.5M
Daily active
10.0M
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 |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
🔬
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 · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 1,288,749 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,295,905 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 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v26.9.1
Bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Costco
- Developer
- Costco Wholesale Corporation
- Bundle ID
- com.costco.costco
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR
Company
- Website
- www.costco.com
- 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.
📈Ratings growth1,295,905 ratings+289812% 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 Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
It's easy to save time and money while on the go, with the Costco Mobile App! We've improved our mobile app, to make it easier for members to access the incredible values found only at Costco.
DIGITAL MEMBERSHIP CARD: Access your membership card from the home page of the app. Use your membership card to enter the warehouse and at checkout.
SHOP: Browse Costco.com’s unique and expanded selection, which offers thousands of items not found at your local warehouse. Enjoy having items delivered straight to your door!… View full description on the official store →
DIGITAL MEMBERSHIP CARD: Access your membership card from the home page of the app. Use your membership card to enter the warehouse and at checkout.
SHOP: Browse Costco.com’s unique and expanded selection, which offers thousands of items not found at your local warehouse. Enjoy having items delivered straight to your door!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 214 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v26.9.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 — v26.6.5 → v26.8.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +19,311 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v26.6.1 → v26.6.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +37,340 high confidence
2026-06
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 6 of 6 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +18,029 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.4.5 → v26.6.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +44,511 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v26.4.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +73,398 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +46,916 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.23 → 4.90 (improved 1.67★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +46,916 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$7.5K/mo · rating +1.65★ · reviews +1,168,938 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.49★ · reviews +189 high confidence
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +189 low · multiple changes
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.71 → 3.38 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +158 low · multiple changes
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +158 low · multiple changes
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +154 low · multiple changes
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +154 low · multiple changes
📸
Store Page History
6 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-12
2026-06-19
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.79641★ | 243,960 | 4.79641★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.86149★ | 1,294,127 | 4.86149★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Costco: 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: 1,295,905 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Costco make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Costco 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 Costco profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $75K and monthly revenue $600K, Costco 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 Costco have?▴
Estimated audience: ~259.0M lifetime downloads, ~51.5M monthly active users, and ~10.0M 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 Costco?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 Costco sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10.0M (marketplace range $7.5M – $13.0M). Calculated as 17× 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 Costco?▴
Costco is published by Costco Wholesale Corporation 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 Costco's BU Score?▴
Costco has a BU Score of 84/100 (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.