CarTube ‣
58
Quality Score
Solid
CarTube ‣
by ONLINE SAB SUPPORT AND MEDIA JOINT STOCK COMPANY
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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CarTube ‣ is an iOS app from ONLINE SAB SUPPORT AND MEDIA JOINT STOCK COMPANY in the Productivity category, currently rated 3.6★ across 273 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 58: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity app, that means established niche player. 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
$1.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.0K – $3.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$949 – $8540
per month
INDIE tier
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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
46 snapshots on record
Rating
3.6
Reviews
273 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.2K
Snapshots tracked
46
since Dec 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.2y 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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 0.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$4K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $20K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 |
| 📅 0.8y proven track record | +4% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
19K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.8K
Daily active
2.6K
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 |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 1 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-12-17 · 281 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
| 📅 9 months since last update | Concerning gap |
Verdict
At risk
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$997 – $2.3K
12 months
$1.0K – $3.7K
24 months
$949 – $8.5K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
5.1
Revenue Strength
3.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $468 - $2929/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.63★ across 273 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 277d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $21K-$37K. Portfolio play ($14K/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 5 of 5 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| New app (9 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Early-stage install base (273 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v1.0.1
- Bug Fixes
- Performance Improvements
- Performance Improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CarTube ‣
- Developer
- ONLINE SAB SUPPORT AND MEDIA JOINT STOCK COMPANY
- Bundle ID
- com.rohdes.pipexapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $1.2K/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 growth425 ratings+42400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (46 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
CarTube PiP Player is a Safari Web Extension designed to improve how web videos play while you browse. The app provides practical video playback tools that help supported videos continue playing without interrupting your browsing flow.
Built specifically for Safari, CarTube PiP Player works with compatible HTML5 video players and integrates directly into the Safari browsing environment. It focuses on smooth playback, minimal interface, and reliable performance without unnecessary features.… View full description on the official store →
Built specifically for Safari, CarTube PiP Player works with compatible HTML5 video players and integrates directly into the Safari browsing environment. It focuses on smooth playback, minimal interface, and reliable performance without unnecessary features.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.0.1🔄 updated 9mo ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2025 (0y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.63 (improved 2.63★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +34 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +34 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +5 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$57/mo · reviews +8 high confidence
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$57/mo · reviews +8 high confidence
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.24138★ | 29 | 3.24138★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.10203★ | 49 | 4.10203★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.28571★ | 35 | 3.28571★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.87879★ | 33 | 2.87879★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.85714★ | 28 | 3.85714★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.3★ | 50 | 3.3★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.96732★ | 153 | 3.96732★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.75★ | 8 | 3.75★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.74775★ | 444 | 3.74775★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for CarTube ‣: 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: 273 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does CarTube ‣ make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CarTube ‣ earns approximately $1.2K/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 CarTube ‣ profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $60K and monthly revenue $1.2K, CarTube ‣ looks slow ROI — payback period is around 4.2 years 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 CarTube ‣ have?▴
Estimated audience: ~19K lifetime downloads, ~5K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 CarTube ‣?▴
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 CarTube ‣ built with?▴
Our heuristic places CarTube ‣ on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (Swift / UIKit).
Is CarTube ‣ still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would CarTube ‣ sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $15K (marketplace range $15K – $20K). Calculated as 14× 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 CarTube ‣ last updated?▴
CarTube ‣ last shipped a new version on 2025-12-17 — 9 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes CarTube ‣?▴
CarTube ‣ is published by ONLINE SAB SUPPORT AND MEDIA JOINT STOCK COMPANY 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 CarTube ‣'s BU Score?▴
CarTube ‣ has a BU Score of 58/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.