43
BU Score
Emerging
Chicago Public Library
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Chicago Public Library is an iOS app from City of Chicago in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 3.4★ across 62 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 43 — Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (62 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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Jan 25
Aug 25
Jan 26
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 28 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v2.22.2🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN, FR, JA, RU, ZH +3📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2013 (12y old)
📝 About this app
Which branch has the book I want? What's available now from my For Later shelf? When are my DVDs due? Use CPL's app to manage your account and find new titles.
Features:
- See what you have checked out
- Place holds
- Renew materials
- Search the CPL catalog
- Keep track of what you've read and would like to read
- Browse new and on order titles
- Find upcoming events at your preferred location
- View hours, locations and contact information
- Use the app to show your library card when checking out materials in person
- Scan the barcode of a book, DVD or CD to search for it in CPL's catalog
Features:
- See what you have checked out
- Place holds
- Renew materials
- Search the CPL catalog
- Keep track of what you've read and would like to read
- Browse new and on order titles
- Find upcoming events at your preferred location
- View hours, locations and contact information
- Use the app to show your library card when checking out materials in person
- Scan the barcode of a book, DVD or CD to search for it in CPL's catalog
🆕 What's New · v2.22.2
Resolved an issue that required some users to log in every time they opened the app.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Chicago Public Library
- Developer
- City of Chicago
- Bundle ID
- com.bibliocommons.chipublib
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, JA, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $192/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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- AngelList
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Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
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- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
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📈Ratings growth62 ratings+6100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
