Buffer – Payday Budget
52
Quality Score
Solid
Buffer – Payday Budget
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Buffer – Payday Budget is an iOS app from John Higgins in the Finance category, currently rated 5.0★ across 3 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Finance 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
$1.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$876 – $3159
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$812 – $7308
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
Total estimate
$80K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$853 – $2.0K
12 months
$876 – $3.2K
24 months
$812 – $7.3K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.0
Product Quality
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.6
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $401 - $2506/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 3 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $18K-$32K.
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 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| New app (3 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (3 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v1.1.3
Bug fixes and improvements to forecasting accuracy.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Buffer – Payday Budget
- Developer
- John Higgins
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- 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
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- 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.
🌍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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)
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
Buffer shows you what’s safe to spend before payday.
Stop guessing. Stop stressing.
Add your recurring bills, set your payday, and instantly see:
• What’s left this pay cycle
• What’s safe to spend per week
• What’s safe to spend per day
• Exactly where you are in your cycle
Supports monthly and 4-weekly pay.
Works with overdrafts.
No bank connections.
No accounts.
No ads.
Private by design.
All data stays on your device.
Built for people who just want clarity and control.
Stop guessing. Stop stressing.
Add your recurring bills, set your payday, and instantly see:
• What’s left this pay cycle
• What’s safe to spend per week
• What’s safe to spend per day
• Exactly where you are in your cycle
Supports monthly and 4-weekly pay.
Works with overdrafts.
No bank connections.
No accounts.
No ads.
Private by design.
All data stays on your device.
Built for people who just want clarity and control.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 22 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v1.1.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 3 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Buffer – Payday Budget is a very early-stage iOS app in the finance space with weak public traction — only 3 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Buffer – Payday Budget make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Buffer – Payday Budget has only 3 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$86/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Buffer – Payday Budget?▴
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Who makes Buffer – Payday Budget?▴
Buffer – Payday Budget is published by John Higgins 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 Buffer – Payday Budget's BU Score?▴
Buffer – Payday Budget has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.