IRS2Go
47
Quality Score
Emerging
IRS2Go
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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IRS2Go is an iOS app from Internal Revenue Service in the Finance category, currently rated 2.9★ across 4,274 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Finance app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$578
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$506 – $1823
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$469 – $4218
per month
INDIE tier
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📊 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
$1.6K/mo · 74K ratings · 4.0★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 14× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
255K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
71K
Daily active
28K
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
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$578/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$493 – $1.1K
12 months
$506 – $1.8K
24 months
$469 – $4.2K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.8
Product Quality
5.1
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $231 - $1446/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.85★ across 4,274 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — 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 = $10K-$18K. Portfolio play ($1K/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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (4,274 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v6.3.1
Dark mode, always-on refund button, more accessible
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- IRS2Go
- Developer
- Internal Revenue Service
- Bundle ID
- gov.irs.IRS2Go
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Home Page
- Description
- Pay your taxes. Get your refund status. Find IRS forms and answers to tax questions. We help you understand and meet your federal tax responsibilities.
- 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
- $579/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/IRSnews
- linkedin.com/company/irs
- 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/IRS · instagram instagram.com/irsnews · linkedin linkedin.com/company/irs · twitter twitter.com/IRSnews · youtube youtube.com/user/irsvideos
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- irs.gov/help/let-us-help-you
- About page
- irs.gov/refunds/about-refunds
📈Ratings growth4,280 ratings+42% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (51 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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
IRS2Go is the official app of the Internal Revenue Service.
Check your refund status, make a payment, file for free, and more.
Check your refund status, make a payment, file for free, and more.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 29 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v6.3.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Free
📅
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 →
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v6.3.1
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.67 → 2.85 (improved 1.18★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
2020-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #9Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
tax calculator·#9🇺🇸
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 IRS2Go: 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: 4,274 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does IRS2Go make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, IRS2Go earns approximately $578/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 IRS2Go?▴
IRS2Go is published by Internal Revenue Service 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 IRS2Go's BU Score?▴
IRS2Go has a BU Score of 47/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.