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18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder

4.9 ✍️ Editor
✍️ bumetric analysis

18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder is an Android app from 18Birdies LLC in the Sports category, currently rated 4.9★ across 55,134 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a Sports 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.

💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$5.0K/mo
In 12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
In 24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Forecast Revenue / mo
Snapshots tracked
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since first record
💰 Estimated build cost
$245K
Likely range $185K – $330K
$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
💎In-app purchase plumbing+$9K
Sports complexity ×1.90+$53K
🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android)+$62K
11.2y maintenance × ~1-person team+$67K
Total estimate$245K
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 33× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× build cost (under-water)

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + 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
💎IAP / freemium model base28× MRR
📅11.2y proven track record+20%
★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)+15%
🏷Sports category multiple-15%
Final multiple33× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.9M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
305K
Daily active
91K

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
📲Sports engagement~180 installs / rating
📅11.2y of rating accumulation-30%
🔁Sports D30 retention10%
📍DAU / MAU stickiness0.30
DAU / MAU30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
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 contextSports
📦Tiny game bundle→ Native 2D engine
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-22 · 0 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
📅0 days since last updateActive development
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
Baseline
$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.
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BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peers
RevenueQualityMarketGrowthMoatSafetyFounderMonetiz.
Revenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
9.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
4.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 4.86★ across 55,134 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
  • 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
  • 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
  • ⚠️ 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

MODEL
Revenue 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 (55,134 ratings)METRIC
+$5,500
Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC
+$2,200
Mature app (11y old)METRIC
+$1,500
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC
+$600
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE
Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE
Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
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🔖 vVaries with device🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Sports💰 Free💎 IAP $2.99 - $99.99 per item🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)

📝 About this app

Play Better Golf with 18Birdies, the golf GPS range finder, scorecard, handicap tracker, stats tracker, and game-improvement app trusted by more than 10 million golfers.

Get free GPS yardages on 45,000+ golf courses, track every round, follow your handicap, analyze your stats, and improve your swing with AI-powered feedback, training tools, and expert coach reviews.

Whether you want smarter distances, lower scores, better practice, or more fun with friends, 18Birdies helps golfers play smarter and improve faster.

FREE GOLF GPS RANGEFINDER FOR SMARTER ROUNDS… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — 18birdies.com

Mail provider
Google Workspace
Tech stack
Google Workspace · Mailgun · Meta (Facebook) Ads
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
18Birdies Golf GPS Rangefinder
Developer
18Birdies LLC
Bundle ID
com.squarevalley.i8birdies
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Sports
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
18birdies.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
$1.0K/mo
Top-grossing rank
Not found
All-time revenue
Not found
Pricing
$2.99 - $99.99 per item

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 growth55,134 ratings+39% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Jun 2023Dec 2024May 2026
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.

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