Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner
68
Quality Score
Solid
Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner is an iOS app from Buycott Inc. in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.1★ across 2,400 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 68: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping 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
$8.9K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.2K – $19.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.4K – $34.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$475K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $350K – $600K · 15× MRR multiple
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~7.3× 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 |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
240K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
28K
Daily active
5.1K
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.9K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$8.5K – $14.1K
12 months
$9.2K – $19.3K
24 months
$11.4K – $34.2K
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
Stalled · 37/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
5.9
Revenue Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.3
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.1★ across 2,400 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3024d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -2.14 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (3024d 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 12-22× monthly = $106K-$195K. Portfolio play ($31K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 10 of 10 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 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,400 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (32 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Good rating (4.1★)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v3.1.5
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
Bug fixes.
Bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner
- Developer
- Buycott Inc.
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, NN, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $31.6K/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.
📈Ratings growth2,400 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)
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
Vote with your wallet using Buycott.
As seen on CNN, NBC, FOX, ABC, and more!
● HOW IT WORKS ●
* Join campaigns to support causes you care about.
* Scan product barcodes to learn a product's history.
* Make a purchase decision on the product and communicate your decision to the company.
● FEATURES ●
+ Support causes by joining campaigns created by some of the world's best non-profit organizations.
+ Come across a product that doesn't match your values? No worries! Check out the suggested alternatives to find a product that's a better match.… View full description on the official store →
As seen on CNN, NBC, FOX, ABC, and more!
● HOW IT WORKS ●
* Join campaigns to support causes you care about.
* Scan product barcodes to learn a product's history.
* Make a purchase decision on the product and communicate your decision to the company.
● FEATURES ●
+ Support causes by joining campaigns created by some of the world's best non-profit organizations.
+ Come across a product that doesn't match your values? No worries! Check out the suggested alternatives to find a product that's a better match.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 16 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 7.0+🔖 v3.1.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, CA, CS, DA, NL +27📂 Shopping💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 ↑ 4.10 → 4.49 (improved 0.39★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.68 → 4.10 (improved 0.42★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #13Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
barcode scanner shopping·#13🇺🇸barcode scanner·#37🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 787 reviews across 9 markets● 71% positive · ● 10% neutral · ● 18% negative · Rating drift: -2.14★ (declining — recent 50: 1.96★ vs lifetime: 4.1★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.54
🇨🇦 CA
+0.49
🇮🇳 IN
+0.49
🇺🇸 US
+0.48
🇯🇵 JP
+0.39
🇬🇧 GB
+0.31
🇫🇷 FR
+0.24
🇧🇷 BR
+0.14
🇩🇪 DE
-0.04
Top praise themes
support companies ×8 being able ×8 products buy ×7 highly recommend ×7 purchasing decisions ×7 it's easy ×7 free palestine ×6 change world ×6
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×9 keeps crashing ×8 won let ×7 pro life ×7 one sided ×5 products companies ×5 create account ×4 waste money ×4
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 1.1% Bug mentions: 5%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.53279★ | 122 | 4.53279★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.55556★ | 315 | 4.55556★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.06723★ | 119 | 4.06723★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.56863★ | 51 | 4.56863★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.52432★ | 370 | 4.52432★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.4★ | 10 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 6 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.49001★ | 2,402 | 4.49001★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner: 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: 2,400 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner earns approximately $31K/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 Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner?▴
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Who makes Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner?▴
Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner is published by Buycott Inc. 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 Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner's BU Score?▴
Buycott - Barcode Scanner & QR Bar Code Scanner has a BU Score of 68/100 (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.