Buddy: Budget & Save Money
77
Quality Score
Strong
Buddy: Budget & Save Money
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Buddy: Budget & Save Money is an iOS app from Buddy Budgeting AB in the Finance category, currently rated 4.7★ across 9,008 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 Finance 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$11.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$12.2K – $25.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$15.2K – $45.5K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~7 months 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (154 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$54K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$400K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 20× MRR multiple
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~2.8× return on build cost
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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
540K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
150K
Daily active
60K
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
40% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$11.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$11.2K – $18.7K
12 months
$12.2K – $25.6K
24 months
$15.2K – $45.5K
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 · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.1
Product Quality
8.5
Market Position
1.2
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $8K - $17K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.71★ across 9,008 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $212K-$378K. Portfolio play ($19K/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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (9,008 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (13 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 |
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 · v13.38
Summer is just around the corner! This update is another round of good old-fashioned bug fixes and improvements to keep Buddy running smoothly.
We've also been busy laying the groundwork for some exciting updates coming soon.… Full release notes →
We've also been busy laying the groundwork for some exciting updates coming soon.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Buddy: Budget & Save Money
- Developer
- Buddy Budgeting AB
- Bundle ID
- com.iPwners.Plonkan
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, NB, PL, PT, RU, ES, SV, TR
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- The Joyful Budgeting App
- Description
- Say hello to your new financial companion, Buddy. The joyful budgeting app.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $20.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇦🇺#8 /100 🇫🇷#9 /100 🇨🇦#9 /100 🇩🇪#31 /100 🇮🇳#40 /100 🇬🇧#43 /100 🇺🇸#64 /100
- 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
- twitter dropbox.com/sh/d0tl2ce3xqofw34/AABLR1…
- hello@buddy.download
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- buddy.download/learn/why-gen-z-should…
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.94★ · 30.6% 5★ · 36.7% 1★
5★15 (31%)
4★4 (8%)
3★11 (22%)
2★1 (2%)
1★18 (37%)
+39 ratings/week
Praise: love ×10 recommend ×4 great ×4 best ×3 amazing ×2Complaints: subscription ×4 scam ×2 bug ×2 expensive ×1 crash ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Love
I can't live without this app 💗 Also, it's so beautiful…
★★★★★ Such a good app
It works really well and very efficiently. However, I wish there was a desktop for macOS…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ NOT FREE!!
I downloaded this and this is NOT FREE!! ONLY 7 day free trial!! Scam!!!…
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work
Doesn’t sync of upload expensives or make a budget…
📈Ratings growth9,008 ratings+20% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇦🇺AU#8 /100
🇫🇷FR#9 /100
🇨🇦CA#9 /100
🇩🇪DE#31 /100
🇮🇳IN#40 /100
🇬🇧GB#43 /100
🇺🇸US#64 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#8 now · best #7 · worst #36
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Buddy helps you set up a budget and keep track of your expenses, either by yourself or together with your loved ones.
Here’s what is waiting for you inside:
BUDGETS
Buddy will help you not to overspend on your well-earned salary by setting up a budget plan that fits you.
Do you want a shared budget with your partner? Or keep the expenses between you and your mates fair on the vacation? No problem, just invite them and get a clear picture of who spent what.
CONNECT YOUR BANK
Import all transactions from your bank account into Buddy and see how your budget is doing.
OVERVIEW… View full description on the official store →
Here’s what is waiting for you inside:
BUDGETS
Buddy will help you not to overspend on your well-earned salary by setting up a budget plan that fits you.
Do you want a shared budget with your partner? Or keep the expenses between you and your mates fair on the vacation? No problem, just invite them and get a clear picture of who spent what.
CONNECT YOUR BANK
Import all transactions from your bank account into Buddy and see how your budget is doing.
OVERVIEW… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 154 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v13.38🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 DA, NL, EN, FR, DE +8📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.19 → 4.71 (improved 1.52★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.19 → 4.40 (improved 1.21★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.75 (improved 0.42★)
2017-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.33 (dropped 1.17★)
2017-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2015-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #5Ranked for 5 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
budget tracker·#5🇺🇸savings goal·#10🇺🇸money manager·#15🇺🇸expense tracker·#17🇺🇸bill reminder·#21🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — buddy.download
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 4 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.70842★ | 9,140 | 4.70842★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.66092★ | 4,117 | 4.66092★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.59956★ | 7,769 | 4.59956★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.6319★ | 3,404 | 4.6319★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Buddy: Budget & Save Money: 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: 9,008 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Buddy make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Buddy earns approximately $19K/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 Buddy?▴
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Who makes Buddy?▴
Buddy is published by Buddy Budgeting AB 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 Buddy's BU Score?▴
Buddy has a BU Score of 77/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.