Cal AI - Calorie Tracker
86
Quality Score
Excellent
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Cal AI - Calorie Tracker is an iOS app from Viral Development LLC in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.8★ across 317,584 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 86: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Health & Fitness 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$41.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$42.7K – $89.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$52.9K – $158.7K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
506 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
317,584 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$41.3K
Snapshots tracked
506
since Jan 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (310 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$36K |
| ⚙ 2.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$14K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$900K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $700K – $1.2M · 22× MRR multiple
💸
~6.4× 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 |
| 📅 2.5y proven track record | +12% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
22× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
19.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
4.0M
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 📅 2.5y of rating accumulation | -12% |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 | 310 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Health & Fitness |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-08 · 15 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
| 📅 15 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$41.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$39.2K – $65.3K
12 months
$42.7K – $89.4K
24 months
$52.9K – $158K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
4.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $28K - $61K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 317,584 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $742K-$1.3M.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (317,584 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v26.36.0
Improvements and tweaks to help you build and be your best
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Cal AI - Calorie Tracker
- Developer
- Viral Development LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.viraldevelopment.CalAI
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, AZ, NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, PT, RO, 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
- $41.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#9 /100 🇺🇸#12 /100 🇨🇦#14 /100 🇬🇧#19 /100 🇮🇳#42 /100 🇫🇷#60 /100 🇩🇪#64 /100
- 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 growth363,946 ratings+81320% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇦🇺AU#9 /100
🇺🇸US#12 /100
🇨🇦CA#14 /100
🇬🇧GB#19 /100
🇮🇳IN#42 /100
🇫🇷FR#60 /100
🇩🇪DE#64 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#9 now · best #9 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀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
HOW TO USE CAL AI:
1) Answer lifestyle questions to build your plan
2) Snap a photo of your meal*
3) Get your nutritional breakdown*
If you want to get your dream body, Cal AI will help you get there with less time spent than anyone else.
We aren't another complicated diet app. We want to empower everyone to be confident in their bodies with minimal time spent, but you have to work hard. We will support you and give you the tools and information you need.
If you have any ideas or questions, please email us at team@calai.app.
NOTE: We do not offer medical advice.… View full description on the official store →
1) Answer lifestyle questions to build your plan
2) Snap a photo of your meal*
3) Get your nutritional breakdown*
If you want to get your dream body, Cal AI will help you get there with less time spent than anyone else.
We aren't another complicated diet app. We want to empower everyone to be confident in their bodies with minimal time spent, but you have to work hard. We will support you and give you the tools and information you need.
If you have any ideas or questions, please email us at team@calai.app.
NOTE: We do not offer medical advice.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 310 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v26.36.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AR, AZ, NL, EN, FR +10📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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
🔧
Shipped update — v26.32.0 → v26.36.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +7,713 high confidence
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v26.28.0 → v26.32.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +23,405 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v26.23.0 → v26.28.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +27,863 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.3.5 → v26.23.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.3K/mo · reviews +26,229 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.11 → 4.80 (improved 2.69★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,058 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +14,058 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.4K/mo · reviews +68 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.12 → 4.70 (improved 2.58★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.4K/mo · reviews +68 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$7.5K/mo · rating −0.35★ · reviews +366 medium · co-occurring
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.5K/mo · rating −2.60★ · reviews +302 low · multiple changes
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.5K/mo · rating −2.50★ · reviews +253 low · multiple changes
2026-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.4K/mo · rating −2.48★ · reviews +245 medium · co-occurring
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.4K/mo · rating −2.48★ · reviews +245 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #1Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
calorie food·#1🇺🇸calorie counter·#3🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.70177★ | 17,634 | 4.70177★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.86459★ | 6,041 | 4.86459★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.72961★ | 26,284 | 4.72961★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.70551★ | 10,272 | 4.70551★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.7115★ | 12,073 | 4.7115★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.73418★ | 27,086 | 4.73418★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.65735★ | 13,661 | 4.65735★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.66016★ | 1,024 | 4.66016★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.80338★ | 365,472 | 4.80338★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Cal AI - Calorie Tracker: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 87% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 317,584 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cal AI - Calorie Tracker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cal AI - Calorie Tracker earns approximately $41K/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 Cal AI - Calorie Tracker profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $41K, Cal AI - Calorie Tracker 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.
How many users does Cal AI - Calorie Tracker have?▴
Estimated audience: ~19.0M lifetime downloads, ~4.0M 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 Cal AI - Calorie Tracker?▴
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What is Cal AI - Calorie Tracker built with?▴
Our heuristic places Cal AI - Calorie Tracker on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Cal AI - Calorie Tracker still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 15 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Cal AI - Calorie Tracker sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $900K (marketplace range $700K – $1.2M). Calculated as 22× 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 Cal AI - Calorie Tracker last updated?▴
Cal AI - Calorie Tracker last shipped a new version on 2026-09-08 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Cal AI - Calorie Tracker?▴
Cal AI - Calorie Tracker is published by Viral Development 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 Cal AI - Calorie Tracker's BU Score?▴
Cal AI - Calorie Tracker has a BU Score of 86/100 (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.