Bold.org: Scholarships
63
Quality Score
Solid
Bold.org: Scholarships
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Bold.org: Scholarships is an iOS app from Bold.org in the Finance category, currently rated 4.5★ across 332 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 63: Solid (established niche player). For a Finance 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (102 MB) | +$20K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$42K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
19K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.4K
Daily active
2.1K
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
| 📲 Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
39% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
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 · 39/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
6.3
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.51★ across 332 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($1K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (332 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (2y 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 · v0.67.0
This update includes bug fixes, performance improvements, and navigation tweaks to make your experience with Bold.org faster and more intuitive.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Bold.org: Scholarships
- Developer
- Bold.org
- Bundle ID
- org.bold.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Fighting Student Debt
- Description
- Apply to exclusive scholarships and grants in minutes. At Bold.org you may search from a list of scholarships for college students, high school students, graduate students, adult learners, and more. Updated daily!
- 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
- $1.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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
- instagram instagram.com/bolddotorg · linkedin linkedin.com/company/boldorg · tiktok tiktok.com/@bolddotorg · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCmhIuqa5T1OHO6aY…
- awards@bold.org
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- bold.org/contact
- About page
- bold.org/about
📈Ratings growth332 ratings+1975% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (49 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (26 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
Bold.org gives you access to thousands of scholarships — find, apply, and win, all from your phone.
WHY BOLD.ORG?
• Thousands of exclusive scholarships with new ones added daily
• Real scholarships from real donors — not a shared database
• No-essay scholarships for quick wins
• Smart matching to find scholarships that fit you
• Apply to multiple scholarships in minutes
• Earn Bold Points rewards just for using the app
SCHOLARSHIPS THAT ACTUALLY PAY OUT
Unlike scholarship aggregator sites that send you to broken links, Bold.org manages every scholarship end-to-end.… View full description on the official store →
WHY BOLD.ORG?
• Thousands of exclusive scholarships with new ones added daily
• Real scholarships from real donors — not a shared database
• No-essay scholarships for quick wins
• Smart matching to find scholarships that fit you
• Apply to multiple scholarships in minutes
• Earn Bold Points rewards just for using the app
SCHOLARSHIPS THAT ACTUALLY PAY OUT
Unlike scholarship aggregator sites that send you to broken links, Bold.org manages every scholarship end-to-end.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 102 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v0.67.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v0.64.1
2025-05
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Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.25 → 2.80 (improved 0.55★)
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.33 → 2.25 (improved 0.92★)
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.33 (improved 0.33★)
2024-09
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Bold.org: Scholarships: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 332 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Bold.org make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Bold.org earns approximately $1.3K/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 Bold.org?▴
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Who makes Bold.org?▴
Bold.org is published by Bold.org 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 Bold.org's BU Score?▴
Bold.org has a BU Score of 63/100 (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.