Grocery Buddy: Fast Checklist
72
Quality Score
Strong
Grocery Buddy: Fast Checklist
by The Shopping Lab
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Grocery Buddy: Fast Checklist is an iOS app from The Shopping Lab in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.7★ across 835 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
41 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
835 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$200
Snapshots tracked
41
since Nov 2024
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$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 (133 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$8K |
| ⚙ 2.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$12K |
Total estimate
$105K
👥 Estimated audience size
56K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
16K
Daily active
7.4K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 2.1y of rating accumulation | -10% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% 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 | 133 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-11-07 · 4 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
| 📅 4 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 41/100MICRO TIERminimal traction yetGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
6.6
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.5
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 835 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($12K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (835 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| 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 · v1.34.0
- Dark mode is here! Easy on the eyes, day or night.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Grocery Buddy: Fast Checklist
- Developer
- The Shopping Lab
- Bundle ID
- com.grocerybuddy.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- $200/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth1,501 ratings+37425% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (41 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 Quarter10 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
The fastest way to plan your shopping — with real product pictures, instant autocomplete, and a list that organizes itself.
Grocery Buddy is built for busy households who want to stop making lists from scratch, stop forgetting things, and stop second-guessing which brand they meant.
SEE WHAT YOU'RE BUYING
Every item on your list comes with a real product picture. No more squinting at "pasta sauce" and wondering if you meant the green jar or the red one. Pictures help you and your family grab the right thing at the store — even when someone else is doing the shopping.… View full description on the official store →
Grocery Buddy is built for busy households who want to stop making lists from scratch, stop forgetting things, and stop second-guessing which brand they meant.
SEE WHAT YOU'RE BUYING
Every item on your list comes with a real product picture. No more squinting at "pasta sauce" and wondering if you meant the green jar or the red one. Pictures help you and your family grab the right thing at the store — even when someone else is doing the shopping.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 133 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v1.34.0🔄 updated 4d ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
21 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 — v1.31.0 → v1.31.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +82 high confidence
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v1.30.6 → v1.31.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +183 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.30.5 → v1.30.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +169 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v1.30.3 → v1.30.5
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.0K/mo · reviews +113 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.30.1 → v1.30.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.0K/mo · reviews +131 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.0K/mo · reviews +171 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.30.0 → v1.30.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.0K/mo · reviews +172 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v1.29.2 → v1.30.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +182 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v1.29.1 → v1.29.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +139 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.29.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +175 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.19 → 4.71 (improved 0.52★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +95 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +95 high confidence
2025-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.82 (improved 1.22★)
2025-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$66/mo · rating +1.22★ · reviews +6 low · multiple changes
2025-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.00 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$66/mo · rating +1.22★ · reviews +6 high confidence
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.60 (dropped 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$66/mo · rating +1.22★ · reviews +6 high confidence
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 3.00 (improved 0.67★)
2024-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #12Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
grocery list·#12🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Grocery Buddy: Fast Checklist: 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: 835 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Grocery Buddy make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Grocery Buddy earns approximately $200/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 Grocery Buddy profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $105K and monthly revenue $200, Grocery Buddy 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 Grocery Buddy have?▴
Estimated audience: ~56K lifetime downloads, ~16K monthly active users, and ~7K 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 Grocery Buddy?▴
Browse the full Productivity 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 Grocery Buddy built with?▴
Our heuristic places Grocery Buddy 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 Grocery Buddy still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Grocery Buddy last updated?▴
Grocery Buddy last shipped a new version on 2026-11-07 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Grocery Buddy?▴
Grocery Buddy is published by The Shopping Lab 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 Grocery Buddy's BU Score?▴
Grocery Buddy has a BU Score of 72/100 (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.