Gift Card Balance +
15
Quality Score
Niche
Gift Card Balance +
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Gift Card Balance + is an iOS app from Aifen Sun in the Shopping category, currently rated 1.0★ across 1 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 15: Niche (micro-niche or pre-traction stage). For a Shopping app, that means micro-niche or pre-traction stage. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO 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
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 (132 MB) | +$32K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$24K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$45K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $35K – $50K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 28/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.6
Product Quality
0.8
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.8
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 1.0★ across 1 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1592d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (1592d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($4K/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 4 of 4 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 | |
| Below-average rating (1.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (1 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.
🆕 What's New · v3.0.108
add gift cards for 6 new regions
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Gift Card Balance +
- Developer
- Aifen Sun
- Bundle ID
- com.gcb.pro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Gift Cards, Gift Certificates, Gift Vouchers Directory & Community
- Description
- We provide information about your gift cards and gift certificates, such as websites, phone numbers, balance enquiry options and much more.
- 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
- $4.0K/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/giftcardbal · twitter twitter.com/giftcardbal · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCvDZNEc4gfZS6DcQ…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- gcb.today/help
- About page
- gcb.today/about
📈Ratings growth1 ratingsShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $2.99 (+0%)
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
Gift Card Balance (GCB) checks live giftcard balance. The mobile app wallet offers a simple yet accurate way to retrieve real time card balances since 2012. Balance query is performed by connecting directly to the website of card merchant. All giftcard records and photos are 100% stored in your phone. More info: https://gcb.today/app
[Gift Card Balance Pro] is the paid edition of Gift Card Balance with all functions enabled
- All features and cards from standard edition
- Ads Free (both banner and popup)
- Profile Backup and Restore
- Data Protection and Login Passcode… View full description on the official store →
[Gift Card Balance Pro] is the paid edition of Gift Card Balance with all functions enabled
- All features and cards from standard edition
- Ads Free (both banner and popup)
- Profile Backup and Restore
- Data Protection and Login Passcode… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 132 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v3.0.108🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Shopping💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 1 rating · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Gift Card Balance + is a very early-stage iOS app in the shopping space with weak public traction — only 1 rating, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Gift Card Balance + make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Gift Card Balance + has only 1 App Store rating, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$4.0K/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Gift Card Balance +?▴
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Who makes Gift Card Balance +?▴
Gift Card Balance + is published by Aifen Sun 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 Gift Card Balance +'s BU Score?▴
Gift Card Balance + has a BU Score of 15/100 (Niche). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.