Instawork: Work when you want
77
Quality Score
Strong
Instawork: Work when you want
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Instawork: Work when you want is an iOS app from Instawork in the Business category, currently rated 4.7★ across 93,585 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a Business 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
- 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 ~12 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 (78 MB) | +$11K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$30K |
Total estimate
$90K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~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% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.3M
Daily active
390K
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
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.71★ across 93,585 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. 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (93,585 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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 · v2.240.0
Thanks for using Instawork to find hourly gigs at local businesses. We're currently operating in most major cities and coming soon to more!
Search and apply to over 100,000 full-time jobs across the U.S.… Full release notes →
Search and apply to over 100,000 full-time jobs across the U.S.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Instawork: Work when you want
- Developer
- Instawork
- Bundle ID
- com.instawork.Instawork
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ES
Company
- Website
- www.instawork.com
- Tagline
- Staffing reinvented: AI-powered , human vetted
- Description
- Temporary and permanent staffing: hospitality, warehouse, retail, hotel, event, and food service operations. 7M workers across 400+ cities in U.S. and Canada.
- 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
- $7.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/instawork
- linkedin.com/company/instawork
- 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/instawork.jobs · instagram instagram.com/instaworkapp · linkedin linkedin.com/company/instawork · twitter twitter.com/instawork
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- instawork.com/contact-us
- About page
- instawork.com/about
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
Publicly available sources provide revenue estimates for Instawork as a company, but do not offer specific revenue figures for the iOS app "Instawork: Work when you want." Company-wide annual revenue estimates vary significantly, ranging from $5.4 million (Zippia, peak in 2024/2025) to $334.9 million (Kona Equity). Other estimates include $100 million in 2021 (Contrary Research), $17.8 million (Owler), and $88 million (Growjo). Without a breakdown of revenue specifically for the iOS app, a direct estimate cannot be provided.
Sources mentioned: Zippia, Kona Equity, Contrary Research, Owler, Growjo, Sensor Tower, Adapty, Reddit
📈Ratings growth93,585 ratings+36% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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
Find shift-based work that fits your schedule. Search job postings by local businesses who use Instawork to fill short-term and long-term staffing needs. Set your own schedule and see exactly how much you’ll make before you even book a shift!
Qualify for Instawork’s Top Pro Program and unlock more benefits, like eligibility for free daily pay with the Instawork Debit card, early access to shifts, bonus payments on select shifts, monthly prize drawings, badges, and more!… View full description on the official store →
Qualify for Instawork’s Top Pro Program and unlock more benefits, like eligibility for free daily pay with the Instawork Debit card, early access to shifts, bonus payments on select shifts, monthly prize drawings, badges, and more!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 78 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.240.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Business💰 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.83 → 4.71 (improved 0.88★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.83 → 4.70 (improved 0.87★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
2025-11
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Tech & Domain Intel — instawork.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace · Stripe · SendGrid
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.6807★ | 2,114 | 4.6807★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.71441★ | 94,282 | 4.71441★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Instawork: Work when you want: 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 high confidence: 93,585 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Instawork make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Instawork earns approximately $7.3K/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 Instawork?▴
Instawork is published by Instawork 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 Instawork's BU Score?▴
Instawork has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.