PetMeds
46
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PetMeds is an Android app from PetMed Express, Inc. in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 3.1★ across 1,507 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 46: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Health & Fitness app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$524
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$458 – $1653
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$425 – $3823
per month
INDIE 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
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🍎Also on iOS
$97/mo · 13K ratings · 4.9★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$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 |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$20K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$38K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$5K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.0× 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 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
105K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
23K
Daily active
8.0K
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$524/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$446 – $1.0K
12 months
$458 – $1.7K
24 months
$425 – $3.8K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
5.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.9
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
3.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $209 - $1311/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.06★ across 1,507 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $9K-$16K.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (1,507 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| 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
- PetMeds
- Developer
- PetMed Express, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.petmeds1800
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.1800petmeds.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $23/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.
📈Ratings growth1,507 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
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
PetMeds: Care You Trust
PetMeds is dedicated to enhancing pets’ quality of life and longevity, offering essential health products and support for pets and pet families. PetMeds strives to enable happier, healthier pets by creating a community to the best expertise, service, and products.
Pharmacy
PetMeds is the first online pet pharmacy, and for 28 years we’ve provided expert-backed advice and personalized recommendations to help pet parents make informed decisions. We strive to make top-quality health solutions accessible.
Autoship… View full description on the official store →
PetMeds is dedicated to enhancing pets’ quality of life and longevity, offering essential health products and support for pets and pet families. PetMeds strives to enable happier, healthier pets by creating a community to the best expertise, service, and products.
Pharmacy
PetMeds is the first online pet pharmacy, and for 28 years we’ve provided expert-backed advice and personalized recommendations to help pet parents make informed decisions. We strive to make top-quality health solutions accessible.
Autoship… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v3.35🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Health & Fitness💰 Free
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Tech & Domain Intel — 1800petmeds.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- AWS SES · Microsoft 365 · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PetMeds: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 81% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,507 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PetMeds make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PetMeds earns approximately $524/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.
What apps are like PetMeds?▴
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Who makes PetMeds?▴
PetMeds is published by PetMed Express, Inc. 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 PetMeds's BU Score?▴
PetMeds has a BU Score of 46/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.