Drugs.com Medication Guide
79
Quality Score
Strong
Drugs.com Medication Guide
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Drugs.com Medication Guide is an iOS app from Drugs.com in the Medical category, currently rated 4.8★ across 14,600 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 79: Strong (healthy traction). For a Medical 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG 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
🤖Also on Android
$1.7K/mo · 36K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
| ⚙ Medical complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $400K – $700K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~6.2× 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% |
| 🏷 Medical category multiple | +12% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
800K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
200K
Daily active
40K
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
| 📲 Medical engagement | ~55 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Medical D30 retention | 25% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Mixed signals · 57/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautiousGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.4
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 14,600 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (14,600 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 · v3.1.63
- update mednotes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Drugs.com Medication Guide
- Developer
- Drugs.com
- Bundle ID
- com.drugs.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Medical
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $27.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Medical
- 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 growth14,600 ratings+34% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (33 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Manage meds, identify pills, check interactions, compare prices and more. Discover detailed, peer-reviewed info on over 24,000 prescription drugs, OTC meds, and natural products all in one place.
Key Features
- My Med List. Create your health profile and track drug interactions, reminders and alerts, with offline access.
- Price Guide. Find the lowest prices for medications and search pharmacies near you.
- Pill Identifier. Identify pills by imprint, color and shape to confirm medications with confidence.
- Interactions Checker.… View full description on the official store →
Key Features
- My Med List. Create your health profile and track drug interactions, reminders and alerts, with offline access.
- Price Guide. Find the lowest prices for medications and search pharmacies near you.
- Pill Identifier. Identify pills by imprint, color and shape to confirm medications with confidence.
- Interactions Checker.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 47 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v3.1.63🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Medical💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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
2020-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
2020-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2020-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 4.00 (improved 1.00★)
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Tech & Domain Intel — drugs.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Anthropic · OpenAI · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Microsoft 365 · AWS SES
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.66791★ | 268 | 4.66791★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.91457★ | 199 | 4.91457★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.74728★ | 645 | 4.74728★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.4★ | 5 | 4.4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75★ | 4 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.71598★ | 169 | 4.71598★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.51829★ | 164 | 4.51829★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.75★ | 4 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83258★ | 14,867 | 4.83258★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Drugs.com Medication Guide: 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 high confidence: 14,600 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Drugs.com Medication Guide make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Drugs.com Medication Guide earns approximately $27K/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 Drugs.com Medication Guide?▴
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Who makes Drugs.com Medication Guide?▴
Drugs.com Medication Guide is published by Drugs.com 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 Drugs.com Medication Guide's BU Score?▴
Drugs.com Medication Guide has a BU Score of 79/100 (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.