GarageDoorBuddy Monitor
51
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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GarageDoorBuddy Monitor is an Android app from Brocel Corporation in the Lifestyle category, currently rated 4.2★ across 56 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 51: Solid (established niche player). For a Lifestyle 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
$179
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$90 – $835
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$90 – $2502
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
1 snapshots on record
Rating
4.2
Reviews
56 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$179
Snapshots tracked
1
since Aug 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$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 |
| ⚙ Lifestyle complexity ×1.05 | +$2K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$29K |
| ⚙ 10.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$63K |
Total estimate
$145K
🛠 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 | Lifestyle |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
87%
Last shipped 2025-08-31 · 393 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 0mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| 👥 Small user base (56 ratings) + 10.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$179/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$114 – $455
12 months
$90 – $835
24 months
$90 – $2.5K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 34/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
3.3
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
2.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.18★ across 56 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 393d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (393d 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 = $3K-$5K.
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:
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (56 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.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GarageDoorBuddy Monitor
- Developer
- Brocel Corporation
- Bundle ID
- com.brocel.gdbmonitor
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- wwww.garagedoorbuddy.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
- $179/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
Remotely monitor your garage doors from anywhere in the world using the GarageDoorBuddy Monitor*.
Can't remember if you closed the garage door? Ever left the doors opened while you are away? With GarageDoorBuddy Monitor, you never have to worry about that anymore! It is secure and super easy to use. You and your family will receive real-time notifications when your garage door status is changed. Always stay connected, no matter where you are!
Together with the GarageDoorBuddy Remote**, you can check the status of your garage doors and remotely control them all at the same time!… View full description on the official store →
Can't remember if you closed the garage door? Ever left the doors opened while you are away? With GarageDoorBuddy Monitor, you never have to worry about that anymore! It is secure and super easy to use. You and your family will receive real-time notifications when your garage door status is changed. Always stay connected, no matter where you are!
Together with the GarageDoorBuddy Remote**, you can check the status of your garage doors and remotely control them all at the same time!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v2.2🔄 updated 1y ago📂 Lifestyle💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 56 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GarageDoorBuddy Monitor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GarageDoorBuddy Monitor earns approximately $179/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 GarageDoorBuddy Monitor profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $145K and monthly revenue $179, GarageDoorBuddy Monitor 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.
What apps are like GarageDoorBuddy Monitor?▴
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What is GarageDoorBuddy Monitor built with?▴
Our heuristic places GarageDoorBuddy Monitor 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 GarageDoorBuddy Monitor still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (87% 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.
When was GarageDoorBuddy Monitor last updated?▴
GarageDoorBuddy Monitor last shipped a new version on 2025-08-31 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes GarageDoorBuddy Monitor?▴
GarageDoorBuddy Monitor is published by Brocel Corporation 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 GarageDoorBuddy Monitor's BU Score?▴
GarageDoorBuddy Monitor has a BU Score of 51/100 (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.