Cholesterol Food Reference
36
Quality Score
Emerging
Cholesterol Food Reference
Low confidence
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Cholesterol Food Reference is an iOS app from Hong Li in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 3.1★ across 13 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 36: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Health & Fitness app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$1.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.3K – $4.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.2K – $10.9K
per month
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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📊 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
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$20K |
Total estimate
$70K
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.5K/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
$1.3K – $3.0K
12 months
$1.3K – $4.7K
24 months
$1.2K – $10.9K
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
Pre-traction · 33/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
2.5
Revenue Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $595 - $3724/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.08★ across 13 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3039d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3039d 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 18-32× monthly = $26K-$47K.
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 5 of 5 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 | |
| Below-average rating (3.1★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (13 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.
🆕 What's New · v1.5
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
- Updated to support newer version of iOS.
- Updated to support newer version of iOS.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Cholesterol Food Reference
- Developer
- Hong Li
- Bundle ID
- com.martialred.loveyourheart
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $86/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth13 ratings+550% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (20 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
The perfect reference app for people looking to lower their cholesterol.
*****
"Cholesterol Food Reference is a little more serious and to me, worth the asking price." - Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American
*****
Finding out the cholesterol values of food is never easy. Most groceries don't come with labels and fast food restaurants do their best to hide it from you. Cholesterol Food Reference will help you identify the cholesterol values of some of the most common everyday foods, including fast foods and groceries you buy at the supermarket.… View full description on the official store →
*****
"Cholesterol Food Reference is a little more serious and to me, worth the asking price." - Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American
*****
Finding out the cholesterol values of food is never easy. Most groceries don't come with labels and fast food restaurants do their best to hide it from you. Cholesterol Food Reference will help you identify the cholesterol values of some of the most common everyday foods, including fast foods and groceries you buy at the supermarket.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 17 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.5🔄 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 →
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2013-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.25 → 2.80 (dropped 0.45★)
2012-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.25 (dropped 0.75★)
2012-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2012-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.07692★ | 13 | 3.07692★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 13 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Cholesterol Food Reference is a early-stage iOS app in the health & fitness space with weak public traction — only 13 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cholesterol Food Reference make per month?▴
Our model estimates Cholesterol Food Reference earns roughly $86/mo, but with only 13 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like Cholesterol Food Reference?▴
Browse the full Health & Fitness category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
Who makes Cholesterol Food Reference?▴
Cholesterol Food Reference is published by Hong Li 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 Cholesterol Food Reference's BU Score?▴
Cholesterol Food Reference has a BU Score of 36/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.