Minifig Scan
76
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Minifig Scan is an iOS app from Francis Bonnin in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.9★ across 2,486 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities app, that means healthy traction. 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
375 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
2,486 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
375
since Feb 2025
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 ~1.2y 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 (95 MB) | +$18K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-10278 |
| ⚙ 2.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$17K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.3× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅 2.8y proven track record | +14% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
425K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
80K
Daily active
16K
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 |
| 📅 2.8y of rating accumulation | -14% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 95 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-19 · 24 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
| 📅 24 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 · 55/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.7
Product Quality
8.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.7
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.92★ across 2,486 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($153K/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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,486 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v5.0.7
Minor fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Minifig Scan
- Developer
- Francis Bonnin
- Bundle ID
- francis.bonnin.Minifig-Scan
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, 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
- $5.0K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth3,003 ratings+546% 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 Quarter8 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
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• Keep track of your collection with counters, favorites and personal notes.
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 95 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.0.7🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FR, DE +8📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 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 →
2026-11
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 14 of 14 updated
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v5.0.5 → v5.0.7
→ 30 days after: reviews +93 high confidence
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.6 → v5.0.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +202 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.4 → v4.0.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +174 high confidence
2026-07
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Shipped update — v4.0.3 → v4.0.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +111 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.2 → v4.0.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +84 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0 → v4.0.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +87 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v3.5.9 → v4.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +116 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +116 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$373/mo · reviews +1,995 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$986/mo · reviews +23 high confidence
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.8K/mo · reviews +43 high confidence
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.1K/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +25 high confidence
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.1K/mo · reviews +25 medium · co-occurring
2025-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.2K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +74 medium · co-occurring
2025-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.1K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +49 medium · co-occurring
2025-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.1K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +49 medium · co-occurring
2025-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.1K/mo · rating −0.05★ · reviews +49 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
14 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPad screenshots
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iPhone screenshots
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2 ver.
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2 ver.
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.83629★ | 281 | 4.83629★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.87234★ | 47 | 4.87234★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.86782★ | 348 | 4.86782★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.92635★ | 706 | 4.92635★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.91713★ | 362 | 4.91713★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.88415★ | 915 | 4.88415★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 7 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.82418★ | 91 | 4.82418★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.91636★ | 2,989 | 4.91636★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Minifig Scan: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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Lead-app heavy — top app contributes 57%
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,486 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Minifig Scan make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Minifig Scan 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 Minifig Scan profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $75K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Minifig Scan looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Minifig Scan have?▴
Estimated audience: ~425K lifetime downloads, ~80K monthly active users, and ~16K 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 Minifig Scan?▴
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.
What is Minifig Scan built with?▴
Our heuristic places Minifig Scan on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Minifig Scan still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 24 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Minifig Scan sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 18× 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 Minifig Scan last updated?▴
Minifig Scan last shipped a new version on 2026-10-19 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Minifig Scan?▴
Minifig Scan is published by Francis Bonnin 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 Minifig Scan's BU Score?▴
Minifig Scan has a BU Score of 76/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.