How much does Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis earns approximately $36K/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 Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis profitable?

With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $36K, Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 3 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

What apps are like Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis?

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What is Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis built with?

Our heuristic places Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis 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 Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (87% 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 Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis sell for?

Estimated acquisition value: $450K (marketplace range $325K – $600K). Calculated as 12× 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 Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis last updated?

Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis last shipped a new version on 2024-11-17 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Who makes Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis?

Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis is published by K SOLUTION 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 Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis's BU Score?

Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis has a BU Score of 47/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Quality Score

Emerging

Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis

Name: Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis revenue, Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Utilities revenue, iOS app revenue

Low confidence

2.8 ✍️ Editor

Utilities

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis is an iOS app from K SOLUTION LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 2.8★ across 61 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities app, that means early traction worth watching. 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

$1.3K

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$1.1K – $4.0K

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$1.0K – $9.3K

per month

INDIE tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost

$125K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $95K – $170K

$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build

📈Pays back in ~3 months 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
⚙13.3y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$80K

Total estimate$125K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value

$450K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 12× MRR multiple

💸~3.6× 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
📅13.3y proven track record	+20%
⭐★ rating < 3.5 (weak)	-18%
🏷Utilities category multiple	-10%
⭐Small user base (<1K ratings)	-8%

Final multiple12× MRR

🛠 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	10 MB
🏷Category context	Utilities
📦Compact iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Likely abandoned

87%

Last shipped 2024-11-17 · 553 days ago

0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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 6mo since last update	Likely deprioritized
👥Small user base (61 ratings) + 13.3y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)
•13y old + 1y+ no update	+5% (API deprecation drift)

VerdictLikely abandoned

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$1.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

6 months

$1.1K – $2.5K

12 months

$1.1K – $4.0K

24 months

$1.0K – $9.3K

Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Pre-traction · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signal

Revenue Strength

3.1

Product Quality

2.3

Market Position

2.0

Growth Velocity

5.0

Defensibility

4.5

Operational Safety

5.0

Founder Strength

5.6

Monetization Maturity

1.0

💰 Revenue: Modest — $512 - $3203/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 2.82★ across 61 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 553d ago — possibly dormant.
⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (553d since update).

🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $23K-$41K. Portfolio play ($36K/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

MODEL

Revenue 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:

Paid app ($0.00)METRIC		+$2,800
worth every pennyREVIEW		+$2,000
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
great valueREVIEW		+$1,600
excellent appREVIEW		+$1,500
Below-average rating (2.8★)METRIC		−$1,500
Mature app (13y old)METRIC		+$1,500
Multilingual (25 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
support teamREVIEW		+$900
Pre-traction phase (61 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

App Specs

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💾 10 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v9.0🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 CA, CS, DA, NL, EN +20📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)

📝 About this app

EngineLink will turn your iPhone/iPod into vehicle / car performance / diagnostics tool and scanner that uses an OBD II WIFI adapter or a low Energy Bluetooth adapter (LELink, LELink2, Carista, Viecar) to connect to your OBD2 engine management / ECU.

The only iPhone app does custom PID, now supports Torque custom PID file. 

BENEFITS:
* Emission Test.
* See what your car is doing in real-time.
* Read and clear OBD fault codes.
* Display car performance and sensor data.
* Customizable gauges, showing only the data you were interested in
* Top Ranked Car App… View full description on the official store →

🆕 What's New · v9.0

Now you can set custom page number.

📅

What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

9 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.14 → 2.20 (dropped 0.94★)

2015-02

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2013-09

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2013-04

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2013-02

⭐

Rating ↓ 3.60 → 3.17 (dropped 0.43★)

2013-02

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.60 (dropped 0.65★)

2013-01

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.25 (dropped 0.42★)

2013-01

⭐

Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)

2013-01

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

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Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇺🇸 US	2.81967★	61	2.81967★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	2.375★	8	2.375★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	2.2★	5	2.2★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	3★	2	3★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4★	1	4★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.09091★	11	4.09091★ this version
🇦🇺 AU	2★	4	2★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4★	2	4★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	1★	1	1★ this version

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Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Engine Link - OBD II diagnosis
Developer: K SOLUTION LLC
Bundle ID: org.ksolution.enginelink
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Utilities
Content rating: 4+
Languages: CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, ZH, TR

Company

Website: www.outdoor-apps.com
Tagline: In The Palm Of Your Hand
Description: Engine Link, OBD II vehicle monitoring and diagnosis, Best Fishing Times iPhone App provides solunar tables, and moon phase info for the best hunting times and best fishing times, Simulates the sun and moon position.Whether you are hunting fishing, or photographing, our app can help you find the location-specific solunar times to make you next trip a success.
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Not found

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $36.0K/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

Socials: facebook facebook.com/EngineLinkApp · twitter twitter.com/ksolutionapp
Email: support@ksolution.org
Phone: Not found
Contact page: outdoor-apps.com/help.html
About page: Not found

📈Ratings growth61 ratings+-50% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (59 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.

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.