Free Plant Identifier
78
Quality Score
Strong
Free Plant Identifier
by Mohamed Aberkane
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Free Plant Identifier is an iOS app from Mohamed Aberkane in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 15,809 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education 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 tierFREE
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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
135 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
15,809 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
135
since Jun 2024
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.6y 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 (91 MB) | +$16K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$13K |
| ⚙ 2.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$14K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~1.1× 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 |
| 📅 2.4y proven track record | +12% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
200K
Daily active
60K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 📅 2.4y of rating accumulation | -12% |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% 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 | 91 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2026-01-12 · 254 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
| 📅 8 months since last update | Concerning gap |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
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)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
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
Stalled · 40/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
7.9
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
2.6
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.71★ across 15,809 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 254d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.75 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($31K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (15,809 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (15 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 · v68
We fixed a few bugs related to Plant Health diagnosis.
Thank you for the feedback.
Thank you for the feedback.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Free Plant Identifier
- Developer
- Mohamed Aberkane
- Bundle ID
- info.mohamedaberkane.Warda
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, ZH, ES, SV
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 Education
- 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 growth24,248 ratings+17471% 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.
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
Discover and learn about the plants in your surroundings using image recognition technology.
With Warda, you can easily identify wildlife, plants, and fungi nearby.
Warda can recognize over 33,000 types of plants, including houseplants, garden plants, trees, weeds, fungi, and lichens worldwide. You'll receive the common name, a brief description, and the classification of each plant, along with its scientific (Latin) name.
Plus, with Warda's Health Assessment feature, you can distinguish between healthy and unhealthy plants. Our model can detect 90 different diseases.
*******… View full description on the official store →
With Warda, you can easily identify wildlife, plants, and fungi nearby.
Warda can recognize over 33,000 types of plants, including houseplants, garden plants, trees, weeds, fungi, and lichens worldwide. You'll receive the common name, a brief description, and the classification of each plant, along with its scientific (Latin) name.
Plus, with Warda's Health Assessment feature, you can distinguish between healthy and unhealthy plants. Our model can detect 90 different diseases.
*******… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 91 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v68🔄 updated 8mo ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, FI +10📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2024 (2y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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 →
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,184 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.19 → 4.71 (improved 0.52★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,184 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.0M/mo · rating −0.51★ · reviews −11,498 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.19 → 4.70 (improved 0.51★)
→ 30 days after: revenue −$2.0M/mo · rating −0.51★ · reviews −11,498 high confidence
2025-07
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$7.2K/mo · reviews +43 high confidence
2025-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.6K/mo · rating −0.13★ · reviews +34 high confidence
2025-06
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$9.3K/mo · rating −0.17★ · reviews +56 high confidence
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.64 → 4.31 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.2K/mo · rating +0.21★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2024-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$350/mo · rating +0.06★ high confidence
2024-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$700/mo · rating +0.20★ high confidence
2024-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.75 → 4.17 (improved 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$350/mo · rating +0.21★ high confidence
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 3.75 (dropped 0.92★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$350/mo · rating +0.42★ medium · co-occurring
2024-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$350/mo · rating +0.42★ medium · co-occurring
2024-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$350/mo · rating +0.42★ low · multiple changes
2024-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$350/mo · rating +0.42★ medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 262 reviews across 6 markets● 79% positive · ● 8% neutral · ● 13% negative · Rating drift: -0.75★ (declining — recent 50: 3.96★ vs lifetime: 4.71★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.68
🇺🇸 US
+0.48
🇦🇺 AU
+0.45
🇨🇦 CA
+0.41
🇮🇳 IN
+0.20
🇯🇵 JP
+0.00
Top praise themes
identify plants ×9 about plants ×5 able identify ×5 easy accurate ×5 helps identify ×4 plants helpful ×3 information about ×3 highly recommend ×3
Top complaint themes
full access ×3 identify wrong ×3 plants ×16 pay ×10 about ×8 info ×7 because ×5 doesn ×5
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 4% Fraud / scam mentions: 1.5%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.52356★ | 764 | 4.52356★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.90625★ | 32 | 4.90625★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5335★ | 1,224 | 4.5335★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.24242★ | 33 | 4.24242★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.39286★ | 28 | 4.39286★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.65841★ | 3,068 | 4.65841★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.47825★ | 69 | 4.47825★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.61441★ | 236 | 3.61441★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.70549★ | 24,580 | 4.70549★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Free Plant Identifier: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 15,809 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Free Plant Identifier make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Free Plant Identifier 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 Free Plant Identifier profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Free Plant Identifier looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.6 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Free Plant Identifier have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.1M lifetime downloads, ~200K monthly active users, and ~60K 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 Free Plant Identifier?▴
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What is Free Plant Identifier built with?▴
Our heuristic places Free Plant Identifier 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 Free Plant Identifier still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Free Plant Identifier sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 Free Plant Identifier last updated?▴
Free Plant Identifier last shipped a new version on 2026-01-12 — 8 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Free Plant Identifier?▴
Free Plant Identifier is published by Mohamed Aberkane 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 Free Plant Identifier's BU Score?▴
Free Plant Identifier has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.