GlossGenius: Booking, Payments
63
Quality Score
Solid
GlossGenius: Booking, Payments
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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GlossGenius: Booking, Payments is an iOS app from GlossGenius, Inc. in the Business category, currently rated 4.5★ across 3,798 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 63: Solid (established niche player). For a Business 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$731
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$639 – $2304
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$592 – $5331
per month
INDIE tier
💡 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
🤖Also on Android
$405/mo · 1K ratings · 3.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (184 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$45K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
245K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
53K
Daily active
16K
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
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$731/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$623 – $1.5K
12 months
$639 – $2.3K
24 months
$592 – $5.3K
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 TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $292 - $1828/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.51★ across 3,798 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 = $13K-$23K.
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 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Low install base (3,798 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v7.73.0
We're releasing a number of minor updates and fixes to make your experience even better.
If you’re enjoying using GlossGenius, please consider leaving us a positive review or rating in the App Store since that helps us make the product even better! Thank you so much for your… Full release notes →
If you’re enjoying using GlossGenius, please consider leaving us a positive review or rating in the App Store since that helps us make the product even better! Thank you so much for your… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- GlossGenius: Booking, Payments
- Developer
- GlossGenius, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.glossgenius.GlossGeniusSaaS
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Loved by 100,000+ Businesses
- Description
- The all-in-one booking, payments, and business management software used by salons, spas, medspas, and other beauty and wellness businesses.
- Founded
- 2016
- 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
- $731/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Danielle Cohen-Shohet
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- linkedin.com/company/glossgenius
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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/GlossGenius · instagram instagram.com/glossgenius · linkedin linkedin.com/company/glossgenius
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- glossgenius.com/contact-us
- About page
- glossgenius.com/salon-management-soft…
📈Ratings growth3,850 ratings+30% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (47 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
GlossGenius is the system 120,000+ beauty, wellness, and health businesses trust to earn more revenue and get more time back.
Why GlossGenius?
Get more new clients
Your booking site ranks on Google, so new clients find you when they're searching — no paid ads required. Automated confirmations and reminders keep no-shows off your calendar. And 24/7 online booking fills your schedule while you're with clients, at dinner, or asleep.
Earn more from every appointment
Other point-of-sale systems just process payments. GlossGenius is the only point-of-sale that earns you more.… View full description on the official store →
Why GlossGenius?
Get more new clients
Your booking site ranks on Google, so new clients find you when they're searching — no paid ads required. Automated confirmations and reminders keep no-shows off your calendar. And 24/7 online booking fills your schedule while you're with clients, at dinner, or asleep.
Earn more from every appointment
Other point-of-sale systems just process payments. GlossGenius is the only point-of-sale that earns you more.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 184 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v7.73.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↑ 3.44 → 4.51 (improved 1.07★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.45 (dropped 1.05★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.45 → 4.50 (improved 1.05★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2022-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for GlossGenius: Booking, Payments: 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: 3,798 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does GlossGenius make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, GlossGenius earns approximately $731/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 GlossGenius?▴
GlossGenius is published by GlossGenius, 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 GlossGenius's BU Score?▴
GlossGenius has a BU Score of 63/100 (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.