IF: Intermittent Fasting 16:8
75
Quality Score
Strong
IF: Intermittent Fasting 16:8
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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IF: Intermittent Fasting 16:8 is an iOS app from 5W APPS GmbH in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.8★ across 2,644 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Health & Fitness 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
$1.2M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.3M – $2.0M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.5M – $2.8M
per month
BIG tierFREE
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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
🤖Also on Android
$1.4K/mo · 24K ratings · 4.4★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~10 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 (158 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$36K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$250K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~2.0× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
185K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
40K
Daily active
14K
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
| 📲 Health & Fitness engagement | ~70 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Health & Fitness D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.35 |
DAU / MAU
35% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.2M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.2M – $1.6M
12 months
$1.3M – $2.0M
24 months
$1.5M – $2.8M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 50/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Product Quality
7.1
Revenue Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
6.8
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $480K - $2640K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 2,644 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 2.2% refund mentions, scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.61 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $21.6M-$38.4M.
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:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (2,644 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$600 |
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 · v4.6.9
Extensive update of the app: Improvement of the fasting tracker, new programs and brand NEW: Home Workouts!
The app now runs more user-friendly and efficiently, with fewer bugs. Take a look and enjoy!
NOW with Apple Watch!
The app now runs more user-friendly and efficiently, with fewer bugs. Take a look and enjoy!
NOW with Apple Watch!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- IF: Intermittent Fasting 16:8
- Developer
- 5W APPS GmbH
- Bundle ID
- com.intervall-fasten.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ES, UK
Company
- Website
- intervall-fasten.com
- Tagline
- If: Intervallfasten Tracker
- Description
- Fasten & Tracker zum Abnehmen - Intervallfasten App mit Rezepten, Ernährungsplan & Coaching
- 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
- $12.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Health & Fitness
- 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 growth2,644 ratings+264300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (35 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.
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
Intermittent Fasting makes it easy to lose weight, slim quickly and live healthier. Join our fasting community of over 3 million people. Weight loss with the Nobel Prize-winning method: Don't count calories anymore, just count hours!
The If-app makes Intermittent Fasting easier with daily coaching and recipes that increase your weight loss success! Weight loss without diet! The recipes for meal time are nutritionally composed in such a way that later - during your fasting window - you will not get cravings.… View full description on the official store →
The If-app makes Intermittent Fasting easier with daily coaching and recipes that increase your weight loss success! Weight loss without diet! The recipes for meal time are nutritionally composed in such a way that later - during your fasting window - you will not get cravings.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 158 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v4.6.9🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 NL, EN, FR, DE, IT +4📂 Health & Fitness💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.58 → 4.85 (improved 1.27★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.33 → 3.86 (dropped 0.47★)
2020-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2019-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 183 reviews across 6 markets● 31% positive · ● 40% neutral · ● 29% negative · Rating drift: -1.61★ (declining — recent 50: 3.14★ vs lifetime: 4.75★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.30
🇬🇧 GB
+0.28
🇨🇦 CA
+0.14
🇫🇷 FR
+0.09
🇧🇷 BR
-0.02
🇩🇪 DE
-0.22
Top praise themes
bonne application ×9 muito bom ×7 mit der ×6 très bonne ×5 finde die ×4 und das ×4 très bien ×4 ich habe ×3
Top complaint themes
waste money ×5 ich habe ×4 das abo ×4 für diese ×3 ein abo ×3 hab ich ×3 und dann ×3 jetzt wieder ×3
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.2% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.5%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — intervall-fasten.com
- Tech stack
- AWS SES · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.52778★ | 36 | 4.52778★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.80403★ | 5,751 | 4.80403★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.65479★ | 365 | 4.65479★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.56015★ | 2,976 | 4.56015★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.5732★ | 3,395 | 4.5732★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66667★ | 150 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.7★ | 20 | 4.7★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.85365★ | 41 | 4.85365★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75169★ | 2,646 | 4.75169★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for IF: Intermittent Fasting 16:8: 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: 2,644 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does IF make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, IF earns approximately $12K/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 IF?▴
IF is published by 5W APPS GmbH 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 IF's BU Score?▴
IF has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.