Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor
64
Quality Score
Solid
Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor is an iOS app from Creosys in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.3★ across 1,481 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 64: 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
$8.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$7.2K – $26.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.7K – $60.1K
per month
INDIE tier
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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
🤖Also on Android
$907/mo · 27K ratings · 4.2★
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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
📈
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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $150K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~2.2× 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 |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
295K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
59K
Daily active
11K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$8.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$7.0K – $16.4K
12 months
$7.2K – $26.0K
24 months
$6.7K – $60.1K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.9
Product Quality
7.8
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.33★ across 1,481 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 = $148K-$263K.
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 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,481 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$600 |
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 · v8.3.0
Improved stability and performance to make car diagnostics smoother than ever. If you enjoy the app, please rate or review it — it really helps us indie developers. Thanks!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor
- Developer
- Creosys
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, PL, PT, ES, SV
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
- $8.2K/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 growth1,481 ratings+38% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (54 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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
OBD Auto Doctor is the leading OBD2 car diagnostics tool for everyone!
Ever wonder why the check engine light keeps going on? Read the OBD2 diagnostic trouble codes and reset the Check Engine Light. With this car diagnostic app for ELM 327, you can quickly and easily communicate with your car's OBD-II system and turn your mobile into an automotive car scanner.
▸ This OBD-2 car scanner app is ideal for everyone interested in knowing their car better. Whether you want to monitor vehicle data in real-time or track car performance, this is a must-have OBD2 tool!
Capabilities and benefits:… View full description on the official store →
Ever wonder why the check engine light keeps going on? Read the OBD2 diagnostic trouble codes and reset the Check Engine Light. With this car diagnostic app for ELM 327, you can quickly and easily communicate with your car's OBD-II system and turn your mobile into an automotive car scanner.
▸ This OBD-2 car scanner app is ideal for everyone interested in knowing their car better. Whether you want to monitor vehicle data in real-time or track car performance, this is a must-have OBD2 tool!
Capabilities and benefits:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 17 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v8.3.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FI, FR, DE, IT +4📂 Utilities💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 ↑ 2.18 → 4.39 (improved 2.21★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 2.18 (dropped 2.15★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.18 → 4.33 (improved 2.15★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.00 (improved 0.40★)
2015-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.60 (improved 0.60★)
2014-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.50 (improved 0.50★)
2014-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,481 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor earns approximately $8.2K/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 Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor?▴
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Who makes Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor?▴
Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor is published by Creosys 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 Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor's BU Score?▴
Car Scanner | OBD Auto Doctor has a BU Score of 64/100 (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.