ScanLife PowerShopper
64
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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ScanLife PowerShopper is an Android app from Becausal in the Shopping category, currently rated 3.5★ across 53,792 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 64: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping 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
$1.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.4K – $5.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.3K – $11.8K
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
5 snapshots on record
Rating
3.5
Reviews
53,792 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.6K
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$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 |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$36K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$25K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
640K
Daily active
115K
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 |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
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
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
72%
Last shipped 2025-03-20 · 555 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
| 📅 1y 6mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.4K – $3.2K
12 months
$1.4K – $5.1K
24 months
$1.3K – $11.8K
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
Pre-traction · 38/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.2
Product Quality
7.0
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $649 - $4059/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.51★ across 53,792 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 555d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (555d since update).
🎯 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 = $29K-$51K.
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 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (53,792 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- ScanLife PowerShopper
- Developer
- Becausal
- Bundle ID
- com.ScanLife
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.becausal.com
- 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
- $1.6K/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.
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
ScanLife PowerShopper(TM) -- instant cash savings when you scan your grocery receipts.
Build Shopping Lists of all kinds, and for all Events -- to maximize your savings even further. Now explore our Circular Deals to enhance your savings plan.
Save money every time you go grocery shopping. Savings sent directly to your PayPal or Venmo account, giving you more flexibility in how you receive your cashback.
Scanbuy matches active digital coupons (we find them!) to either your Shopping List (before you shop) or to your Store Receipt (after you shop).… View full description on the official store →
Build Shopping Lists of all kinds, and for all Events -- to maximize your savings even further. Now explore our Circular Deals to enhance your savings plan.
Save money every time you go grocery shopping. Savings sent directly to your PayPal or Venmo account, giving you more flexibility in how you receive your cashback.
Scanbuy matches active digital coupons (we find them!) to either your Shopping List (before you shop) or to your Store Receipt (after you shop).… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v10.2.2🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Shopping💰 Free📺 Ad-supported
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for ScanLife PowerShopper: 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 high confidence: 53,792 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does ScanLife PowerShopper make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, ScanLife PowerShopper earns approximately $1.6K/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 ScanLife PowerShopper profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $100K and monthly revenue $1.6K, ScanLife PowerShopper looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does ScanLife PowerShopper have?▴
Estimated audience: ~5.3M lifetime downloads, ~640K monthly active users, and ~115K 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 ScanLife PowerShopper?▴
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What is ScanLife PowerShopper built with?▴
Our heuristic places ScanLife PowerShopper on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is ScanLife PowerShopper still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (72% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would ScanLife PowerShopper sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $25K (marketplace range $15K – $30K). 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 ScanLife PowerShopper last updated?▴
ScanLife PowerShopper last shipped a new version on 2025-03-20 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes ScanLife PowerShopper?▴
ScanLife PowerShopper is published by Becausal on the Google Play 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 ScanLife PowerShopper's BU Score?▴
ScanLife PowerShopper has a BU Score of 64/100 (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.