C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map
84
Quality Score
Excellent
C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map is an iOS app from Zen Labs in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.8★ across 169,093 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 84: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Health & Fitness app, that means strong product-market fit. 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
$1.2M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.3M – $2.0M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.5M – $2.8M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~5 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 (315 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$36K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $700K · 20× MRR multiple
💸
~4.0× 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% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
20× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
11.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.5M
Daily active
875K
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.2M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.2M – $1.6M
12 months
$1.3M – $2.0M
24 months
$1.5M – $2.8M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $480K - $2640K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.77★ across 169,093 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $21.6M-$38.4M.
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:
| High install base (169,093 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v5.3.31
◎ New Apple Watch App
◎ Minor bug fixes and optimization
Our community is our number one priority. We answer each and every email. Most of our updates have been suggestions from our community.… Full release notes →
◎ Minor bug fixes and optimization
Our community is our number one priority. We answer each and every email. Most of our updates have been suggestions from our community.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map
- Developer
- Zen Labs
- Bundle ID
- com.zenlabs.c25kfree
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.zenlabsfitness.com
- Tagline
- welcome
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $100.0KAI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $1.2M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $25.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Health & Fitness
- 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/pg/c25kfree/photos/?tab=… · instagram instagram.com/officialc25k · twitter twitter.com/c25kfree
- contactus@zenlabsfitness.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map" by Zen Labs is estimated to generate $100,000 in monthly revenue, leading to an annual estimate of $1,200,000. This estimate is based on a public app showcase, which also indicates approximately 25,000 monthly installs for the app.
Sources mentioned: ScreensDesign, App Store, Reddit, Zen Labs Fitness
📈Ratings growth169,093 ratings+45% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 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.
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
■ The OFFICIAL C25K® (Couch to 5K) program with millions of success stories!
■ Official partners and featured on FITBIT and SAMSUNG smart watches!
■ Featured on The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Men's Fitness, Forbes, Mashable, Glamour Magazine, Popsugar Fitness, CBS News, NBC News, Macworld, Cosmopolitan, The Verge, Lifehacker, WebMD and many more!
"C25K is easy to use, as you would hope for a beginner app." - New York Times… View full description on the official store →
■ Official partners and featured on FITBIT and SAMSUNG smart watches!
■ Featured on The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Men's Fitness, Forbes, Mashable, Glamour Magazine, Popsugar Fitness, CBS News, NBC News, Macworld, Cosmopolitan, The Verge, Lifehacker, WebMD and many more!
"C25K is easy to use, as you would hope for a beginner app." - New York Times… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 315 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v5.3.31🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Health & Fitness💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 →
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — zenlabsfitness.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.7013★ | 9,970 | 4.7013★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.81555★ | 694 | 4.81555★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.69541★ | 7,968 | 4.69541★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.67216★ | 668 | 4.67216★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.74845★ | 322 | 4.74845★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66571★ | 10,090 | 4.66571★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.73313★ | 963 | 4.73313★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.54807★ | 104 | 4.54807★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.76897★ | 169,355 | 4.76897★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 169,093 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map earns approximately $25K/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.
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Who makes C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map?▴
C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map is published by Zen Labs 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 C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map's BU Score?▴
C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map has a BU Score of 84/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.