Catawiki - Online Auctions
70
Quality Score
Strong
Catawiki - Online Auctions
by Catawiki
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Catawiki - Online Auctions is an iOS app from Catawiki in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.7★ across 3,860 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Shopping 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
94 snapshots on record
Rating
4.7
Reviews
3,860 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
94
since Mar 2015
🤖Also on Android
$172/mo · 93K ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$190K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $255K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.2y 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 (168 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 11.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$71K |
Total estimate
$190K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 11.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
270K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
13K
Daily active
2.3K
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
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 | 168 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-10-05 · 34 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
| 📅 34 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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)
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
Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
8.5
Market Position
1.8
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.72★ across 3,860 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 = $90K-$160K.
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:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (3,860 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (17 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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 · v5.64
We update our app regularly to make it more user friendly and to improve the user experience.
These are the most important changes in this version:
• Bug fixes to improve the stability and usability.
Catawiki is hiring iOS Developers, check us out on catawiki.com/jobs
These are the most important changes in this version:
• Bug fixes to improve the stability and usability.
Catawiki is hiring iOS Developers, check us out on catawiki.com/jobs
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Catawiki - Online Auctions
- Developer
- Catawiki
- Bundle ID
- nl.catawiki.bidder-app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IT, NB, PL, PT, RO, ZH, ES, SV, ZH
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
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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 growth4,109 ratings+8118% 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 Quarter14 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Fulfil your passions with the Catawiki app, the leading platform for buying and selling special objects, selected by experts.
Catawiki offers more than 75,000 objects a week across 22 diverse categories such as Art, Design, Jewellery and Watches, Fashion, Classic Cars, Collectables and much more.
Experience the thrill of Catawiki, the leading online marketplace:
- Engage in secure transactions: Safely buy and sell via our trusted payment system.
- Explore anytime, anywhere: Conveniently browse captivating auctions on your terms.… View full description on the official store →
Catawiki offers more than 75,000 objects a week across 22 diverse categories such as Art, Design, Jewellery and Watches, Fashion, Classic Cars, Collectables and much more.
Experience the thrill of Catawiki, the leading online marketplace:
- Engage in secure transactions: Safely buy and sell via our trusted payment system.
- Explore anytime, anywhere: Conveniently browse captivating auctions on your terms.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 168 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v5.64🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FI, FR +12📂 Shopping💰 Free🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
25 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 →
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v5.60 → v5.64
→ 30 days after: reviews +54 high confidence
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v5.55.1 → v5.60
→ 30 days after: reviews +109 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.54.1 → v5.55.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +65 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.54 → v5.54.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +72 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.53 → v5.54
→ 30 days after: reviews +80 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.52 → v5.53
→ 30 days after: reviews +34 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.51 → v5.52
→ 30 days after: reviews +44 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.50 → v5.51
→ 30 days after: reviews +59 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.49.1 → v5.50
→ 30 days after: reviews +55 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.47 → v5.49.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +66 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.46 → v5.47
→ 30 days after: reviews +62 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.44 → v5.46
→ 30 days after: reviews +50 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v5.43.1 → v5.44
→ 30 days after: reviews +57 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +50 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.98 → 4.72 (improved 1.74★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +50 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.60 → 2.98 (dropped 1.62★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 4.60 (improved 1.60★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 6 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.71703★ | 4,170 | 4.71703★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.67162★ | 6,797 | 4.67162★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.60749★ | 20,835 | 4.60749★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.5978★ | 52,380 | 4.5978★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.68339★ | 319 | 4.68339★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.60452★ | 354 | 4.60452★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Catawiki - Online Auctions: 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: 3,860 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Catawiki - Online Auctions make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Catawiki - Online Auctions 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 Catawiki - Online Auctions profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $190K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Catawiki - Online Auctions looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.2 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 Catawiki - Online Auctions have?▴
Estimated audience: ~270K lifetime downloads, ~13K 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 Catawiki - Online Auctions?▴
Browse the full Shopping 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 Catawiki - Online Auctions built with?▴
Our heuristic places Catawiki - Online Auctions on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Catawiki - Online Auctions still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Catawiki - Online Auctions sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 21× 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 Catawiki - Online Auctions last updated?▴
Catawiki - Online Auctions last shipped a new version on 2026-10-05 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Catawiki - Online Auctions?▴
Catawiki - Online Auctions is published by Catawiki 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 Catawiki - Online Auctions's BU Score?▴
Catawiki - Online Auctions has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.