Cotton On
71
Quality Score
Strong
Cotton On
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Cotton On is an iOS app from COTTON ON in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.7★ across 5,340 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Shopping 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 tier
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- 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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.4y 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 |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
530K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
63K
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
17% sticky
🔬
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 · 46/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
8.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.6
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 5,340 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.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (5,340 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v2.11.2
Level up with the Cotton On app! New look. New features. Even better perks.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Cotton On
- Developer
- COTTON ON
- Bundle ID
- com.cottonon.cottonon
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- cottonon.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Shop Six Brands in one place! Discover the latest trends at Cotton On, Body, Cotton On Kids, Typo, Factorie & Supre.
- 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
- $1.2K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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
- Socials
- instagram instagram.com/cottonon/?hl=en
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- cottonon.com/AU/information-about-ret…
📈Ratings growth5,340 ratings+7870% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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.
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
Name a better way to shop
Better perks
Earn points when you shop. It’s easier than ever to track your points and redeem vouchers. Plus, you can tap to use your perks card instore.
App exclusives
Sneak peeks and special offers, only on the app.
Scan & shop
Scan an item IRL to check for sizes, colours and stock.
First to know
Get alerts on new drops and sales.
Track your orders
Picked, packed and delivered. The best kind of status update.
Wishlist
Save your faves and add to cart when you’re ready to bag them.
Swipe to like
Your personalised style feed. Swipe right to save to wishlist.… View full description on the official store →
Better perks
Earn points when you shop. It’s easier than ever to track your points and redeem vouchers. Plus, you can tap to use your perks card instore.
App exclusives
Sneak peeks and special offers, only on the app.
Scan & shop
Scan an item IRL to check for sizes, colours and stock.
First to know
Get alerts on new drops and sales.
Track your orders
Picked, packed and delivered. The best kind of status update.
Wishlist
Save your faves and add to cart when you’re ready to bag them.
Swipe to like
Your personalised style feed. Swipe right to save to wishlist.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 36 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.11.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 ↑ 2.30 → 4.74 (improved 2.44★)
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.88 → 3.56 (dropped 0.32★)
2020-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.00 (dropped 0.40★)
2019-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2019-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.05555★ | 18 | 2.05555★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.73325★ | 5,342 | 4.73325★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Cotton On: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 5,340 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cotton On make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cotton On earns approximately $1.2K/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 Cotton On?▴
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.
Who makes Cotton On?▴
Cotton On is published by COTTON ON 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 Cotton On's BU Score?▴
Cotton On has a BU Score of 71/100 (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.