Consumer Reports
82
Quality Score
Excellent
Consumer Reports
by Consumer Reports
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Consumer Reports is an iOS app from Consumer Reports in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 63,978 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Shopping 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
139 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
63,978 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
139
since Aug 2020
🤖Also on Android
$28/mo · 4K ratings · 3.6★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$180K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $135K – $245K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.0y 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 (109 MB) | +$23K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$22K |
| ⚙ 13.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$81K |
Total estimate
$180K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 13.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
4.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
160K
Daily active
28K
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 |
| 📅 13.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
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 | 109 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Shopping |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-08 · 20 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 20 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.79★ across 63,978 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($21K/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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (63,978 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$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 · v5.22.0
• Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Consumer Reports
- Developer
- Consumer Reports
- Bundle ID
- org.consumerreports.Ratings
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- 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
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#8 /100 🇺🇸#13 /100
- 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 growth63,957 ratings+13280% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇨🇦CA#8 /100
🇺🇸US#13 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#8 now · best #8 · worst #8
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter8 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Shop smarter with Consumer Reports by your side. Discover products worth buying, compare your options, find deals, and get trusted answers backed by CR's independent testing, research, and expertise.
Whether you're looking for your next car, replacing an appliance, searching for the best products for your home, or just curious about what's worth buying, the Consumer Reports app makes it easier to shop confidently.
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Whether you're looking for your next car, replacing an appliance, searching for the best products for your home, or just curious about what's worth buying, the Consumer Reports app makes it easier to shop confidently.
Discover what's worth buying
Explore Product Collections
Discover trending products and expert-curated collections designed to help you find your next great buy.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 109 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v5.22.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2013 (13y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
22 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 →
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v5.19.1 → v5.22.0
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v5.18.0 → v5.19.1
→ 30 days after: reviews −13 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.17.0 → v5.18.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.16.0 → v5.17.0
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v5.15.0 → v5.16.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −5 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.14.1 → v5.15.0
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v5.14.0 → v5.14.1
→ 30 days after: reviews −12 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v5.14.0
→ 30 days after: reviews −12 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews −7 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.98 → 4.79 (improved 1.81★)
→ 30 days after: reviews −7 high confidence
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.7K/mo · rating +1.80★ · reviews +63,486 high confidence
2021-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2021-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ · reviews +27 low · multiple changes
2020-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2020-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 high confidence
2020-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2020-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ · reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2020-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.17 → 2.86 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.13★ · reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2020-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2020-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.68878★ | 2,985 | 4.68878★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.79366★ | 63,963 | 4.79366★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Consumer Reports: 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: 63,978 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Consumer Reports make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Consumer Reports earns approximately $5.0K/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 Consumer Reports profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $180K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Consumer Reports looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 3.0 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Consumer Reports have?▴
Estimated audience: ~4.5M lifetime downloads, ~160K monthly active users, and ~28K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Consumer Reports?▴
Browse the full Shopping 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.
What is Consumer Reports built with?▴
Our heuristic places Consumer Reports 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 Consumer Reports still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 20 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Consumer Reports sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 21× 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 Consumer Reports last updated?▴
Consumer Reports last shipped a new version on 2026-10-08 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Consumer Reports?▴
Consumer Reports is published by Consumer Reports 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 Consumer Reports's BU Score?▴
Consumer Reports has a BU Score of 82/100 (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.