JB4 Mobile
50
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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JB4 Mobile is an iOS app from Dmac Mobile Developments, LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.8★ across 239 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
109 snapshots on record
Rating
3.8
Reviews
239 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
109
since Jan 2015
🤖Also on Android
$298/mo · 745 ratings · 3.5★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.0y 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙ 12.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$75K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 12.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
33K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.3K
Daily active
460
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 12.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 24 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2026-01-08 · 260 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 |
| 👥 Small user base (239 ratings) + 12.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
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: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 · 37/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
3.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.82★ across 239 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 259d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — 2.0% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.72 ★ (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. 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 8 of 8 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Early-stage install base (239 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 · v3.0.7
Bug Fix: Viewing User Adj in landscape orientation
Bug Fix: Viewing graph with incompatible parameters.
Minor changes to firmware uploading to make it faster.
Bug Fix: Viewing graph with incompatible parameters.
Minor changes to firmware uploading to make it faster.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- JB4 Mobile
- Developer
- Dmac Mobile Developments, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.dmacpro91.jb4-mobile
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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 Utilities
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 3.16★ · 22.4% 5★ · 22.4% 1★
5★11 (22%)
4★11 (22%)
3★13 (27%)
2★3 (6%)
1★11 (22%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×16 love ×8 fantastic ×1 best ×1 recommend ×1Complaints: bug ×2 expensive ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Yes
App going to sleep fixed in the last update…
★★★★★ Have it open every time I drive
♠️…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Did not work
I couldn’t get it to connect. I cannot find any way to contact Support. The regular JB4 PRO app works fine wirelessly.…
★☆☆☆☆ Give Me My Theme Back
I've been a JB4 user for over 2 years and have thoroughly enjoyed it. That all changed with the latest app update. Upon automatic update, my old gauges and layouts were wiped out. Now, I'm forced to use one specific style of gauge…
📈Ratings growth239 ratings+203% 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $27.99 (+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
The brand new JB4 Mobile application is finally ready for public release and has lots of great new features including:
*Gauge theme customizations
*Built-in raw CSV data viewer
*Revamped User Adj./WMI data editors
*New modern UI completely rewritten from the ground up
*More seamless integration with our backend servers
JB4 Connect Kit Users:
1) Install the Connect Kit per the installation guide for your vehicle
2) Create your account/sign in with this app
3) Ensure JB4 Mobile has all requested permissions
4) Tap the Connect button in JB4 Mobile
About The App:… View full description on the official store →
*Gauge theme customizations
*Built-in raw CSV data viewer
*Revamped User Adj./WMI data editors
*New modern UI completely rewritten from the ground up
*More seamless integration with our backend servers
JB4 Connect Kit Users:
1) Install the Connect Kit per the installation guide for your vehicle
2) Create your account/sign in with this app
3) Ensure JB4 Mobile has all requested permissions
4) Tap the Connect button in JB4 Mobile
About The App:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 24 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v3.0.7🔄 updated 8mo ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (12y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $27.99 price point
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v3.0.7
2024-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 high confidence
2020-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.13 → 3.82 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.08★ high confidence
2016-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.09 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ high confidence
2016-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.31★ high confidence
2016-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.78 → 4.40 (dropped 0.38★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.31★ high confidence
2015-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ high confidence
2015-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 148 reviews across 6 markets● 70% positive · ● 7% neutral · ● 22% negative · Rating drift: -0.72★ (declining — recent 50: 3.1★ vs lifetime: 3.82★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.45
🇨🇦 CA
+0.44
🇺🇸 US
+0.44
🇬🇧 GB
+0.31
🇧🇷 BR
+0.30
🇩🇪 DE
-0.43
Top praise themes
car play ×8 customer service ×8 apple carplay ×5 data logging ×4 play support ×3 oil temp ×3 highly recommended ×3 via bluetooth ×3
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×5 waste money ×5 don waste ×4 cannot connect ×3 username password ×3 update ×14 support ×11 iphone ×11
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.0% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.7%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4★ | 6 | 4★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4★ | 10 | 4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.09091★ | 22 | 4.09091★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3★ | 8 | 3★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.125★ | 8 | 4.125★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.82008★ | 239 | 3.82008★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for JB4 Mobile: 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: 239 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does JB4 Mobile make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, JB4 Mobile 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 JB4 Mobile profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $5.0K, JB4 Mobile looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does JB4 Mobile have?▴
Estimated audience: ~33K lifetime downloads, ~2K monthly active users, and ~460 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 JB4 Mobile?▴
Browse the full Utilities 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 JB4 Mobile built with?▴
Our heuristic places JB4 Mobile on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 (SwiftUI).
Is JB4 Mobile still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: At risk (60% 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 JB4 Mobile sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). 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 JB4 Mobile last updated?▴
JB4 Mobile last shipped a new version on 2026-01-08 — 8 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes JB4 Mobile?▴
JB4 Mobile is published by Dmac Mobile Developments, LLC 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 JB4 Mobile's BU Score?▴
JB4 Mobile has a BU Score of 50/100 (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.