Grid Money
73
Quality Score
Strong
Grid Money
by Hatfield, Inc.
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Grid Money is an iOS app from Hatfield, Inc. in the Finance category, currently rated 4.6★ across 27,230 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Finance 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
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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
$145K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $195K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.9y 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 (297 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$54K |
Total estimate
$145K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $150K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.9× 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% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
445K
Daily active
175K
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
| 📲 Finance engagement | ~60 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Finance D30 retention | 28% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
39% sticky
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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 · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.8
Product Quality
9.2
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.6
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.61★ across 27,230 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (27,230 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v3.56.0
Thanks for using Grid! This version has bug fixes and improvements that make it even easier to get Grid Card, Grid Advance, and Grid Tax.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Grid Money
- Developer
- Hatfield, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.hatfield.grid
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $6.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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 growth28,351 ratings+68% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (40 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter9 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Get cash when you need it, boost your paycheck, and build your credit score with Grid. No interest, credit checks, or late fees. Just a simple $10/month.
CASH ADVANCES
Get an advance when you need extra cash between paychecks. Up to $200* per advance with our Levels program. No credit checks needed and always transparent pricing.
BOOST YOUR PAYCHECK
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NO CREDIT CHECKS
Sign up is fast and easy through the app.
Need help?… View full description on the official store →
CASH ADVANCES
Get an advance when you need extra cash between paychecks. Up to $200* per advance with our Levels program. No credit checks needed and always transparent pricing.
BOOST YOUR PAYCHECK
Take home more of your paycheck and get your tax refund early with PayBoost. Sign up to get a part of your yearly tax refund on every paycheck, up to $250 per month.
NO CREDIT CHECKS
Sign up is fast and easy through the app.
Need help?… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 297 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.56.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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 →
2026-07
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Shipped update — v3.55.0 → v3.56.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +124 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.54.0 → v3.55.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +415 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.53.0 → v3.54.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +506 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.52.0 → v3.53.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +598 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.51.0 → v3.52.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +600 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.50.0 → v3.51.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +657 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.49.0 → v3.50.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +591 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v3.47.0 → v3.49.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +673 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v3.47.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +864 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.12 → 4.61 (improved 1.49★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +420 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +420 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$6.3K/mo · rating +1.50★ · reviews +26,108 high confidence
2025-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ · reviews +70 high confidence
2025-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.42★ · reviews +79 high confidence
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.11 → 3.80 (dropped 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +62 medium · co-occurring
2025-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +62 medium · co-occurring
2025-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.41★ · reviews +62 medium · co-occurring
2025-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.44★ · reviews +60 low · multiple changes
2025-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.35★ · reviews +56 low · multiple changes
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Grid Money: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 27,230 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Grid Money make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Grid Money earns approximately $6.4K/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 Grid Money?▴
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Who makes Grid Money?▴
Grid Money is published by Hatfield, 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 Grid Money's BU Score?▴
Grid Money has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.