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Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car)

48
Quality Score
Emerging

Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car)

Medium confidence
3.0 Google Play rating
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) is an Android app from Ian Hawkins in the Maps & Navigation category, currently rated 3.0★ across 446 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.

Quality Score is 48: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Maps & Navigation 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
$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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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

1 snapshots on record
idle
0%
Rating
3.0
Reviews
446 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
1
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build
📈 Pays back in ~3.1y 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
⚙ Maps & Navigation complexity ×1.20 +$10K
🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) +$33K
⚙ 15.0y maintenance × ~1-person team +$90K
Total estimate $185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸 ~0.4× 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
📅 15.0y proven track record +20%
⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) -18%
⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) -8%
Final multiple 14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
46K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.0K
Daily active
1.2K

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
📲 Maps & Navigation engagement ~150 installs / rating
📅 15.0y of rating accumulation -30%
🔁 Maps & Navigation D30 retention 30%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness 0.40
DAU / MAU 40% 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 Maps & Navigation
📦 Compact Android bundle → Native Kotlin
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2022-01-30 · 1710 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
📅 4y+ since last update Likely abandoned
👥 Small user base (446 ratings) + 15.0y old +10% (solo-project pattern)
• 15y old + 1y+ no update +5% (API deprecation drift)
Verdict Likely abandoned
🔬

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.
📊

BU Investment Matrix

Below median · 40/100MID TIERunderperforming peers
RevenueQualityMarketGrowthMoatSafetyFounderMonetiz.
Revenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
4.2
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.5
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
  • 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
  • ⭐ Quality: 3.0★ across 446 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
  • 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
  • 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1710d ago — possibly dormant.
  • ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (1710d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
Paid app ($2.39)METRIC
+$2,800
excellent appREVIEW
+$1,500
Below-average rating (3.0★)METRIC
−$1,500
Mature app (15y old)METRIC
+$1,500
Early-stage install base (446 ratings)METRIC
+$400
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.

Profile & Insights

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

Identification

App name
Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car)
Developer
Ian Hawkins
Bundle ID
org.prowl.torquewidget
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Maps & Navigation
Content rating
Not found
Languages
Not found

Company

Website
torque-bhp.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
$5.0K/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

Get vehicle OBD engine information as a widget on your home screen!

This is an add-on for Torque Pro, the OBD2 car app for monitoring your vehicle engine management data. You can find Torque on the Android Market

It lets you display the various dials and widgets from the app on your android homescreen! Monitor all the standard OBD2 sensors as you can in the app such as coolant, RPM/Revs, Transmission temperature*, knock retard*, MPG, HP and Torque!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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🔖 v2.2.8🔄 updated 4y ago📂 Maps & Navigation💰 Free🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
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📝 Description

95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car): 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
ZCAnalyzed by Zakhar Chumak · founder, Bumetric·Full methodology·Medium confidence

Why medium confidence: 446 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public data
How much does Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) 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 Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.1 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 Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) have?▴
Estimated audience: ~46K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car)?▴
Browse the full Maps & Navigation 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 Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) built with?▴
Our heuristic places Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) 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 Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). 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 Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) last updated?▴
Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) last shipped a new version on 2022-01-30 — more than 4 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car)?▴
Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) is published by Ian Hawkins 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 Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car)'s BU Score?▴
Widgets for Torque (OBD / Car) has a BU Score of 48/100 (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.