Barcodes Matter
51
Quality Score
Solid
Barcodes Matter
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Barcodes Matter is an iOS app from Kevin Marshall in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 5 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 51: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities 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
$1.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.2K – $4.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1K – $9.6K
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$1.1K – $2.6K
12 months
$1.2K – $4.2K
24 months
$1.1K – $9.6K
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
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.1
Product Quality
3.8
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.8
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $527 - $3296/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.8★ across 5 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ 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 = $23K-$42K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (5 ratings)METRIC | −$300 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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.
🆕 What's New · v1.2.1
Added a Watch App to allow you to view the HomeKIt barcodes and scan with your phone camera for devices where "Tap to Pair" isn't available in the main app.
Added Print by Home option to the existing Print by Room menu… Full release notes →
Added Print by Home option to the existing Print by Room menu… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Barcodes Matter
- Developer
- Kevin Marshall
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.plasmasoft.Barcodes-Matter
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Home
- Description
- PlasmaSoft
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/PlasmaSoft/?fref=ts · twitter twitter.com/PlasmaSoftUK
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- plasmasoft.co.uk/contact-us-no-spam
- About page
- plasmasoft.co.uk/about
📈Ratings growth5 ratingsShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (8 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (14 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Barcodes Matter is an app for storing your smart home device pairing barcodes, because we think barcodes matter!
Effortlessly organise, scan, and manage all your Matter and HomeKit smart home device barcodes in one beautifully simple app.
Includes a watch companion app to assist with scanning barcodes that cannot be paired from within the main app, display the barcode on your watch, then scan with the phone.
Barcodes Matter makes it easy to:
* Scan barcodes and QR codes quickly using your device’s camera
* Add Devices by an image, manual code or by scanning an NFC Device… View full description on the official store →
Effortlessly organise, scan, and manage all your Matter and HomeKit smart home device barcodes in one beautifully simple app.
Includes a watch companion app to assist with scanning barcodes that cannot be paired from within the main app, display the barcode on your watch, then scan with the phone.
Barcodes Matter makes it easy to:
* Scan barcodes and QR codes quickly using your device’s camera
* Add Devices by an image, manual code or by scanning an NFC Device… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 3 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.6+🔖 v1.2.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.67 (improved 0.67★)
2026-03
💲
Went free — dropped $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2025-08
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.8★ | 5 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 5 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Barcodes Matter is a early-stage iOS app in the utilities space with weak public traction — only 5 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Barcodes Matter make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Barcodes Matter has only 5 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$86/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Barcodes Matter?▴
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Who makes Barcodes Matter?▴
Barcodes Matter is published by Kevin Marshall on the Apple App 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 Barcodes Matter's BU Score?▴
Barcodes Matter 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.