Grocery Buddy: Make Lists Fast
67
Quality Score
Solid
Grocery Buddy: Make Lists Fast
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Grocery Buddy: Make Lists Fast is an iOS app from The Shopping Lab in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.7★ across 835 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 67: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
$90K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $120K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~11 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 (126 MB) | +$30K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$8K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 17× MRR multiple
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~1.7× build cost (break-even+)
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% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
62K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
18K
Daily active
8.3K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
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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: low defensibility moat
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 41/100MICRO TIERminimal traction yetGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
6.6
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.4
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 835 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($8K/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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (835 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Growing app (1y old)METRIC | +$200 |
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 · v1.30.0
[Major update] List management
- Multiple active checklists: It's now easier to go between multiple lists and move things between them
- Save for later: Save recipes, favorite items, weekly routines — whatever is important to you… Full release notes →
- Multiple active checklists: It's now easier to go between multiple lists and move things between them
- Save for later: Save recipes, favorite items, weekly routines — whatever is important to you… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Grocery Buddy: Make Lists Fast
- Developer
- The Shopping Lab
- Bundle ID
- com.grocerybuddy.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Make Grocery Lists in Seconds
- Description
- Grocery Buddy is the grocery list app that helps you plan, organize, and optimize every shopping trip.
- 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
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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 growth974 ratings+3042% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (20 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
The fastest way to plan your shopping — with real product pictures, instant autocomplete, and a list that organizes itself.
Grocery Buddy is built for busy households who want to stop making lists from scratch, stop forgetting things, and stop second-guessing which brand they meant.
SEE WHAT YOU'RE BUYING
Every item on your list comes with a real product picture. No more squinting at "pasta sauce" and wondering if you meant the green jar or the red one. Pictures help you and your family grab the right thing at the store — even when someone else is doing the shopping.… View full description on the official store →
Grocery Buddy is built for busy households who want to stop making lists from scratch, stop forgetting things, and stop second-guessing which brand they meant.
SEE WHAT YOU'RE BUYING
Every item on your list comes with a real product picture. No more squinting at "pasta sauce" and wondering if you meant the green jar or the red one. Pictures help you and your family grab the right thing at the store — even when someone else is doing the shopping.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 126 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v1.30.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.29.1
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.19 → 4.71 (improved 0.52★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.60 → 3.00 (improved 0.40★)
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.60 (dropped 0.40★)
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 3.00 (improved 0.67★)
2024-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.33 (improved 1.33★)
2024-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #12Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
grocery list·#12🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Grocery Buddy: Make Lists Fast: 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: 835 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Grocery Buddy make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Grocery Buddy earns approximately $8.1K/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 Grocery Buddy?▴
Grocery Buddy is published by The Shopping Lab 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 Grocery Buddy's BU Score?▴
Grocery Buddy has a BU Score of 67/100 (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.