Daily Budget Original
76
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Daily Budget Original is an iOS app from Christopher Ruttinger in the Finance category, currently rated 4.7★ across 4,841 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Finance 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
$8.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$8.6K – $18.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$10.6K – $31.9K
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
76 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
4,841 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$8.3K
Snapshots tracked
76
since Aug 2019
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$225K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $170K – $305K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 (210 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$54K |
| ⚙ 13.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$79K |
Total estimate
$225K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$200K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 24× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× 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 |
| 📅 13.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
24× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
200K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
17K
Daily active
7.0K
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
| 📲 Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 📅 13.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 210 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Finance |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-07-04 · 81 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
| 📅 81 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$7.9K – $13.1K
12 months
$8.6K – $18.0K
24 months
$10.6K – $31.9K
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $5K - $12K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.71★ across 4,841 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 = $149K-$265K. Portfolio play ($47K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (4,841 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 |
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 · v5.6.7
Improves performance and fixes crashes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Daily Budget Original
- Developer
- Christopher Ruttinger
- Bundle ID
- de.incentify.DailyBudget
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, 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
- $8.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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 growth4,842 ratings+1536% 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 Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Rated 5 stars and loved by thousands of users!
Unlike traditional complicated budgeting apps, Daily Budget Original focuses on being simple, easy and actually fun to use.
-- SAFE & PRIVATE –-
The app does not connect to bank accounts, so there is no need to enter your online banking log in data.
Also, we do not sell user data. The data stays on your device only. If you want to sync your data, you can encrypt it before uploading it to the cloud.
-- KEY FEATURES ARE FREE, FOREVER --
Many users are happy and saving a lot of money with the free version, without any additional paid features.… View full description on the official store →
Unlike traditional complicated budgeting apps, Daily Budget Original focuses on being simple, easy and actually fun to use.
-- SAFE & PRIVATE –-
The app does not connect to bank accounts, so there is no need to enter your online banking log in data.
Also, we do not sell user data. The data stays on your device only. If you want to sync your data, you can encrypt it before uploading it to the cloud.
-- KEY FEATURES ARE FREE, FOREVER --
Many users are happy and saving a lot of money with the free version, without any additional paid features.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 210 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.1+🔖 v5.6.7🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +3📂 Finance💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.6.5 → v5.6.7
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.40 → 4.71 (improved 0.31★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$23.3K/mo · rating −0.28★ · reviews +2,378 high confidence
2019-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$150/mo · reviews +15 high confidence
2019-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$641/mo · rating +0.12★ · reviews +64 high confidence
2019-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$490/mo · rating +0.10★ · reviews +49 high confidence
2019-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$203/mo · rating −0.10★ · reviews +21 high confidence
2019-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$259/mo · rating +0.12★ · reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
2019-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$259/mo · rating +0.12★ · reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
2019-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.88 → 4.44 (dropped 0.44★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$259/mo · rating +0.12★ · reviews +26 medium · co-occurring
2019-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2019-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #24Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
budget tracker·#24🇺🇸savings goal·#41🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 8 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.70985★ | 741 | 4.70985★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.59075★ | 281 | 4.59075★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.69438★ | 890 | 4.69438★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.40507★ | 2,881 | 4.40507★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.59686★ | 573 | 4.59686★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69271★ | 742 | 4.69271★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.50065★ | 2,321 | 4.50065★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.70817★ | 4,842 | 4.70817★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Daily Budget Original: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 4,841 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Daily Budget Original make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Daily Budget Original earns approximately $8.3K/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 Daily Budget Original profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $225K and monthly revenue $8.3K, Daily Budget Original looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Daily Budget Original have?▴
Estimated audience: ~200K lifetime downloads, ~17K 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 Daily Budget Original?▴
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What is Daily Budget Original built with?▴
Our heuristic places Daily Budget Original on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 Daily Budget Original still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Daily Budget Original sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $200K (marketplace range $150K – $250K). Calculated as 24× 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 Daily Budget Original last updated?▴
Daily Budget Original last shipped a new version on 2026-07-04 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Daily Budget Original?▴
Daily Budget Original is published by Christopher Ruttinger 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 Daily Budget Original's BU Score?▴
Daily Budget Original 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.