63
Quality Score
Solid
Choco
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Choco is an iOS app from Choco Communications GmbH in the Business category, currently rated 4.4★ across 86 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 63: Solid (established niche player). For a Business 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$500/mo
In 12 months
$437 – $1575
In 24 months
$405 – $3644
INDIE tierFREE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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🤖Also on Android
$301/mo · 176 ratings · 4.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$185K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $140K – $250K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~10 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 |
| ⚙Business complexity ×1.50 | +$45K |
| ⚙8.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$47K |
Total estimate$185K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 18× MRR multiple
💸~1.8× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅8.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷Business category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple18× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 154 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Business |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-05-12 · 11 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅11 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥Small user base (86 ratings) + 8.0y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 42/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)expected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
3.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.5
Operational Safety
9.7
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.37★ across 86 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($18K/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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Multilingual (15 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (86 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 154 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.161.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 CA, CS, NL, EN, FR +10📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
📝 About this app
Choco: Your Ultimate Food Supply Solution for Restaurants and Cafes
Fed up with endless sheets of invoices and late-night phone calls? Choco makes placing distributor orders better and easier—for free. Designed for chefs, managers, and food service businesses, Choco streamlines the ordering process, making it faster, more accurate, and hassle-free.
For Chefs & Ordering Managers:
- Order from Anywhere: Place orders from all your distributors directly through the app, available on all mobile and tablet devices.… View full description on the official store →
Fed up with endless sheets of invoices and late-night phone calls? Choco makes placing distributor orders better and easier—for free. Designed for chefs, managers, and food service businesses, Choco streamlines the ordering process, making it faster, more accurate, and hassle-free.
For Chefs & Ordering Managers:
- Order from Anywhere: Place orders from all your distributors directly through the app, available on all mobile and tablet devices.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v3.161.0
We have been working on improving app stability and performance. Choco is now faster and better than ever.
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2019-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 115 reviews across 4 markets● 65% positive · ● 13% neutral · ● 22% negative · Rating drift: -0.19★ (declining — recent 50: 4.18★ vs lifetime: 4.37★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.80
🇺🇸 US
+0.53
🇫🇷 FR
+0.36
🇩🇪 DE
-0.14
Top praise themes
gain temps ×8 thank sigi ×7 fait gagner ×6 application est ×6 highly recommend ×5 est très ×5 gagner temps ×5 super appli ×4
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×4 phone call ×3 und ×13 die ×11 pas ×8 lieferanten ×7 ich ×7 der ×7
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.37209★ | 86 | 4.37209★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.3617★ | 47 | 4.3617★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.1375★ | 80 | 4.1375★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.48507★ | 134 | 4.48507★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Choco
- Developer
- Choco Communications GmbH
- Bundle ID
- app.choco.chocoapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CA, CS, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, ZH, ES, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- BE THE DISTRIBUTOR THAT
- Description
- Grow your margins with AI powered ordering, digital storefronts, sales tools and payment solutions. All built to drive your revenue growth, and save you time.
- 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
- $18.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://…
- linkedin.com/company/choco-app
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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/choco.food · instagram instagram.com/appchoco · linkedin linkedin.com/company/choco-app · twitter twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://… · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCEujLeGUBGF-djzY…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- choco.com/us/stories/case-studies/kry…
📈Ratings growth86 ratings+8500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (21 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.
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.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Choco: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Choco make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Choco earns approximately $18K/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.
Is Choco profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $185K and monthly revenue $18K, Choco looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 10 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Choco?▾
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What is Choco built with?▾
Our heuristic places Choco on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Choco still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Choco sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 18× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Choco last updated?▾
Choco last shipped a new version on 2026-05-12 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Choco?▾
Choco is published by Choco Communications GmbH 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 Choco's BU Score?▾
Choco 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.