64
Quality Score
Solid
Front 9
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Front 9 is an iOS app from Front 9 Restoration, Inc. in the News category, currently rated 4.5★ across 64 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 64: Solid (established niche player). For a News app, that means established niche player. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$3.1K/mo
In 12 months
$2.7K – $9.8K
In 24 months
$2.5K – $22.6K
INDIE tierFREE
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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
$2.4K/mo · 23 ratings · 4.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~6 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 (76 MB) | +$10K |
| ⚙News complexity ×1.20 | +$12K |
| ⚙6.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$39K |
Total estimate$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 17× MRR multiple
💸~2.8× 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 |
| 📅6.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple17× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 76 MB |
| 🏷Category context | News |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
60%
Last shipped 2025-06-20 · 337 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅11 months since last update | Concerning gap |
| 👥Small user base (64 ratings) + 6.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.1K/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
$2.6K – $6.2K
12 months
$2.7K – $9.8K
24 months
$2.5K – $22.6K
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
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)expected for tierRevenue Strength
3.5
Product Quality
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
5.2
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $7K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.48★ across 64 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 337d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $55K-$99K. 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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (64 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 76 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.43.0🔄 updated 11mo ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (6y old)
📝 About this app
WELCOME, THANK YOU FOR DOWNLOADING THE F9 COOKBOOK APPLE MOBILE APP!
Inside The Front 9 App:
F9 Distribution Map, "One Touch"-Email, Call, and Text Support, App Push Notifications, Facebook Group Support, YouTube Channel and a lot More!
The pages, flow charts and instructions in the F9 COOKBOOK are more than directions on how to remove an inorganic stain or combination of stains. The F9 Cookbook is a system of Processes that have been proven over and over through many years of use.… View full description on the official store →
Inside The Front 9 App:
F9 Distribution Map, "One Touch"-Email, Call, and Text Support, App Push Notifications, Facebook Group Support, YouTube Channel and a lot More!
The pages, flow charts and instructions in the F9 COOKBOOK are more than directions on how to remove an inorganic stain or combination of stains. The F9 Cookbook is a system of Processes that have been proven over and over through many years of use.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.43.0
Performance improvements. May 12, 2024
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 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 →
2026-03
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Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2022-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-01
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 37 reviews across 1 markets● 86% positive · ● 3% neutral · ● 11% negative · Rating drift: +0.20★ (improving — recent 50: 4.68★ vs lifetime: 4.48★)
Top praise themes
pressure washing ×5 cook book ×3 power washing ×3 care about ×3 products ×18 cookbook ×14 cleaning ×6 industry ×6
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×3
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.48438★ | 64 | 4.48438★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Front 9
- Developer
- Front 9 Restoration, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.front9bg9342
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Do You Have Inorganic Staining or Rust Issues? Welcome to the F9 TEAM Hard Surface Restoration Website!
- Description
- F9 BARC: The Best Concrete Rust Remover and Battery Acid Stain Remover
- 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
- $19.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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
- facebook facebook.com/Front9Restoration · youtube youtube.com/watch?v=ar3LYKkOr0g
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- front9restoration.com/contact-us
- About page
- front9restoration.com/about
📈Ratings growth64 ratings+6300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
More by Front 9 Restoration, Inc.
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$21K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 89% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Front 9: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Front 9 make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Front 9 earns approximately $19K/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 Front 9 profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $19K, Front 9 looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 6 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Front 9?▾
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What is Front 9 built with?▾
Our heuristic places Front 9 on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Front 9 still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: At risk (60% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 11 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Front 9 sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 17× 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 Front 9 last updated?▾
Front 9 last shipped a new version on 2025-06-20 — 11 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Front 9?▾
Front 9 is published by Front 9 Restoration, Inc. 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 Front 9's BU Score?▾
Front 9 has a BU Score of 64/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.