Bring a Trailer Auctions
67
Quality Score
Solid
Bring a Trailer Auctions
by Bring A Trailer
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Bring a Trailer Auctions is an iOS app from Bring A Trailer in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 5,628 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 67: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping app, that means established niche player. 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
$880
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$769 – $2774
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$713 – $6417
per month
INDIE 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
75 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
5,628 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$880
Snapshots tracked
75
since Sep 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (76 MB) | +$10K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 3.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$18K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
| 📅 3.1y proven track record | +16% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
470K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
52K
Daily active
9.4K
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 3.1y of rating accumulation | -16% |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 76 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-10-01 · 38 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
| 📅 38 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$880/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$749 – $1.7K
12 months
$769 – $2.8K
24 months
$713 – $6.4K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
8.7
Revenue Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.8
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $352 - $2201/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 5,628 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $15K-$28K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (5,628 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (3y old)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 · v1.6.0
Auction Recommendations for You
We’re excited to bring improved auction recommendations to the app with an all-new, personalized feed that makes it easier than ever to discover and browse auctions you might be interested in.
We want to hear what you think of the new experience.… Full release notes →
We’re excited to bring improved auction recommendations to the app with an all-new, personalized feed that makes it easier than ever to discover and browse auctions you might be interested in.
We want to hear what you think of the new experience.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Bring a Trailer Auctions
- Developer
- Bring A Trailer
- Bundle ID
- com.bringatrailer.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 17+
- 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
- $880/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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 growth7,633 ratings+18517% 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
Bring a Trailer Auctions are the best way to discover, discuss, and buy classic, collector, and enthusiast vehicles.
We curate vehicles submitted by our users and craft transparent auction listings that present the vehicles as they are—without superlatives or dubious used-car-lot language. BaT’s knowledgeable community of more than 900,000 users and over 400,000 registered bidders help vet each listing so potential buyers can bid with confidence.… View full description on the official store →
We curate vehicles submitted by our users and craft transparent auction listings that present the vehicles as they are—without superlatives or dubious used-car-lot language. BaT’s knowledgeable community of more than 900,000 users and over 400,000 registered bidders help vet each listing so potential buyers can bid with confidence.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 76 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.6.0🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Free🚀 Launched 2023 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 — v1.5.7 → v1.6.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +383 high confidence
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v1.5.6 → v1.5.7
→ 30 days after: reviews +819 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.5.4 → v1.5.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +902 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.5.0 → v1.5.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,186 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.5.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,141 medium · co-occurring
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.77 → 4.85 (improved 2.08★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +421 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +421 high confidence
2025-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.25★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2023-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.21★ low · multiple changes
2023-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.21★ low · multiple changes
2023-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.21★ low · multiple changes
2023-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.21★ low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.8231★ | 277 | 4.8231★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.8501★ | 7,812 | 4.8501★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Bring a Trailer Auctions: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 5,628 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Bring a Trailer Auctions make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Bring a Trailer Auctions earns approximately $880/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 Bring a Trailer Auctions profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $100K and monthly revenue $880, Bring a Trailer Auctions looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Bring a Trailer Auctions have?▴
Estimated audience: ~470K lifetime downloads, ~52K monthly active users, and ~9K 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 Bring a Trailer Auctions?▴
Browse the full Shopping 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.
What is Bring a Trailer Auctions built with?▴
Our heuristic places Bring a Trailer Auctions on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Bring a Trailer Auctions 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 Bring a Trailer Auctions sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $20K (marketplace range $15K – $25K). 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 Bring a Trailer Auctions last updated?▴
Bring a Trailer Auctions last shipped a new version on 2026-10-01 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Bring a Trailer Auctions?▴
Bring a Trailer Auctions is published by Bring A Trailer 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 Bring a Trailer Auctions's BU Score?▴
Bring a Trailer Auctions has a BU Score of 67/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.