RentCafe Resident
88
Quality Score
Excellent
RentCafe Resident
by Yardi Systems, Inc.
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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RentCafe Resident is an iOS app from Yardi Systems, Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 915,296 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 88: 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.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
505 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
915,296 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$600K
Snapshots tracked
505
since Dec 2025
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 (915,296 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)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 · v26.8.0
Thank you for being an awesome app user! We appreciate your commitment to our app. We’ve made some general improvements and bug fixes in this update.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- RentCafe Resident
- Developer
- Yardi Systems, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.yardi.rentcafe.resident
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, PT, ZH, ES
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
- $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 growth993,443 ratings+222645% 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 Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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 RentCafe Resident app is your partner in all things related to your community, especially when you’re on the go. We make it easy to pay rent, request maintenance, or reserve amenities.
RentCafe Resident App features (options vary based on each community):
- Submit one-time payments in three easy steps with various payment methods.
- Set up monthly automatic payments to help you avoid late fees.
- Share rent, utility, and other costs with roommates using monthly automatic payments
- Submit maintenance requests with photos and voice memos and track progress along the way.… View full description on the official store →
RentCafe Resident App features (options vary based on each community):
- Submit one-time payments in three easy steps with various payment methods.
- Set up monthly automatic payments to help you avoid late fees.
- Share rent, utility, and other costs with roommates using monthly automatic payments
- Submit maintenance requests with photos and voice memos and track progress along the way.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 139 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v26.8.0🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, CA, DA, NL, EN +7📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2012 (14y old)
📅
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 →
2026-09
📦
Bundle ↑ 57MB → 146MB — likely major code refresh
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v26.7.0 → v26.8.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +22,429 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v26.6.3 → v26.7.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +26,136 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v26.4.0 → v26.6.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +59,371 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.34 → 4.83 (improved 0.49★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +33,235 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +33,235 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.8K/mo · reviews +80 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.34 → 4.80 (improved 0.46★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.8K/mo · reviews +80 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.7K/mo · rating −0.67★ · reviews +294 low · multiple changes
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.4K/mo · rating −0.67★ · reviews +281 low · multiple changes
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.09 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.7K/mo · rating −0.65★ · reviews +250 low · multiple changes
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.7K/mo · rating −0.65★ · reviews +250 low · multiple changes
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.5K/mo · rating −0.65★ · reviews +240 low · multiple changes
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.5K/mo · rating −0.65★ · reviews +240 low · multiple changes
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$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 (139 MB) | +$35K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-12916 |
| ⚙ 14.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$85K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$11.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $9.0M – $15.5M · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~72× 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 |
| 📅 14.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
128.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
6.8M
Daily active
1.4M
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 |
| 📅 14.2y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% 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 | 139 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-19 · 43 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
| 📅 43 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for RentCafe Resident: 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: 915,296 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does RentCafe Resident make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, RentCafe Resident 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 RentCafe Resident profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $600K, RentCafe Resident 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 RentCafe Resident have?▴
Estimated audience: ~128.0M lifetime downloads, ~6.8M monthly active users, and ~1.4M 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 RentCafe Resident?▴
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What is RentCafe Resident built with?▴
Our heuristic places RentCafe Resident 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 RentCafe Resident still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% 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 RentCafe Resident sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $11.5M (marketplace range $9.0M – $15.5M). 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 RentCafe Resident last updated?▴
RentCafe Resident last shipped a new version on 2026-08-19 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes RentCafe Resident?▴
RentCafe Resident is published by Yardi Systems, 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 RentCafe Resident's BU Score?▴
RentCafe Resident has a BU Score of 88/100 (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.