Contacts Journal CRM
74
Quality Score
Strong
Contacts Journal CRM
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Contacts Journal CRM is an iOS app from zaal LLC in the Business category, currently rated 4.7★ across 2,302 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 74: Strong (healthy traction). For a Business app, that means healthy traction. 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 tierSUBSCRIPTION
💡 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
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 (71 MB) | +$8K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$29K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$600K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $450K – $800K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~6.7× 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% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
145K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
31K
Daily active
9.4K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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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)
Direction
Tailwinds: monetization model proven
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
Building · 63/100MID TIERSUBSCRIPTIONcompetitive build-outGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
9.5
Defensibility
7.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
8.9
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 2,302 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 ($31K/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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,302 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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 · v6.7.6
[NEW in 6.7.6]:
- Added "Set Date to Now" context menu item from Logs list
- Added "Reschedule" context menu item from ToDos list
[NEW in 6.7.5]:
- Major performance improvement in the Map tab
- Bug fixes
[NEW in 6.7.2]:… Full release notes →
- Added "Set Date to Now" context menu item from Logs list
- Added "Reschedule" context menu item from ToDos list
[NEW in 6.7.5]:
- Major performance improvement in the Map tab
- Bug fixes
[NEW in 6.7.2]:… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Contacts Journal CRM
- Developer
- zaal LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.zsquare.ijournal
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Contacts Journal CRM
- Description
- Contacts Journal CRM - an business and professional relationship management app for iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $31.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#77 /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 growth2,302 ratings+21% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (45 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇩🇪
DE
Top-grossing rank: #77 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#77 now · best #73 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Stay on top of your relationships with a powerful, easy-to-use CRM.
Contacts Journal gives you the tools to track conversations, manage follow-ups, and organize your contacts—so you can build stronger relationships and never miss an opportunity.
With Contacts Journal, you can:
• Always know your last interaction with each contact, so you’re prepared for any conversation
• Stay consistent with timely follow-ups, reminders, and tasks
• Organize contacts using tags, groups, and filters
• Keep all relevant notes, files, and documents in one place… View full description on the official store →
Contacts Journal gives you the tools to track conversations, manage follow-ups, and organize your contacts—so you can build stronger relationships and never miss an opportunity.
With Contacts Journal, you can:
• Always know your last interaction with each contact, so you’re prepared for any conversation
• Stay consistent with timely follow-ups, reminders, and tasks
• Organize contacts using tags, groups, and filters
• Keep all relevant notes, files, and documents in one place… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 71 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v6.7.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2017-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
2017-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 4.00 (improved 1.00★)
2017-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #4Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
crm·#4🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 767 reviews across 9 markets● 85% positive · ● 7% neutral · ● 9% negative · Rating drift: +0.03★ (stable — recent 50: 4.76★ vs lifetime: 4.73★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.81
🇮🇳 IN
+0.76
🇨🇦 CA
+0.74
🇺🇸 US
+0.71
🇦🇺 AU
+0.70
🇧🇷 BR
+0.53
🇫🇷 FR
+0.22
🇯🇵 JP
+0.11
🇩🇪 DE
-0.01
Top praise themes
keep track ×42 highly recommend ×27 iphone ipad ×18 user friendly ×18 being able ×17 small business ×16 customer service ×15 one place ×14
Top complaint themes
customer service ×5 doesn work ×5 lost data ×3 group email ×3 apple watch ×3 nouvelle version ×3 group text ×3 text messaging ×3
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.61778★ | 225 | 4.61778★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.85714★ | 7 | 4.85714★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.61803★ | 233 | 4.61803★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.49704★ | 169 | 4.49704★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.43283★ | 67 | 4.43283★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.71563★ | 211 | 4.71563★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.26316★ | 19 | 4.26316★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.28571★ | 7 | 4.28571★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.72771★ | 2,310 | 4.72771★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Contacts Journal CRM: 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: 2,302 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Contacts Journal CRM make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Contacts Journal CRM earns approximately $31K/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 Contacts Journal CRM?▴
Contacts Journal CRM is published by zaal LLC 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 Contacts Journal CRM's BU Score?▴
Contacts Journal CRM has a BU Score of 74/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.