Lifesum: Kalorien Zähler AI
82
Quality Score
Excellent
Lifesum: Kalorien Zähler AI
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Lifesum: Kalorien Zähler AI is an iOS app from Lifesum AB in the Health & Fitness category, currently rated 4.7★ across 149,439 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Health & Fitness app, that means strong product-market fit. 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 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
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
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Pays back in ~8 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 (228 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Health & Fitness complexity ×1.40 | +$36K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $400K · 19× MRR multiple
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~2.4× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Health & Fitness category multiple | +10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
10.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.2M
Daily active
770K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 53/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
6.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $480K - $2640K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.65★ across 149,439 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 = $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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (149,439 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (14 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v23.9.1
For this newest version, we've given the app some tender loving care and squashed some bugs to give you an even better experience.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lifesum: Kalorien Zähler AI
- Developer
- Lifesum AB
- Bundle ID
- com.sillens.iShape
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, NB, PL, PT, RU, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Healthy eating.
- Description
- Lifesum helps you improve your well-being with insights regarding food and nutrition while creating sustainable habits – start your health journey today.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $800.0K ($700.0K – $900.0K)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $9.6M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $16.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#11 /100 🇫🇷#63 /100 🇨🇦#98 /100
- 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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/Lifesum · instagram instagram.com/lifesum · twitter twitter.com/lifesum · youtube youtube.com/channel/UCy64gY3TCURHxigE…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- lifesum.com/contact
- About page
- Not found
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "Lifesum: Kalorien Zähler AI" is estimated to generate between $700,000 and $900,000 in monthly revenue, with a central estimate of $800,000. This leads to an estimated annual revenue of $9.6 million.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty, Reddit, M&A Insights, Growjo, Owler
📈Ratings growth149,660 ratings+65% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (31 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank3 countries
🇩🇪DE#11 /100
🇫🇷FR#63 /100
🇨🇦CA#98 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#11 now · best #11 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
A revolutionary way to track your meals, enhanced by AI.
Welcome to a new era of nutrition tracking, tailored to your style. With the new Lifesum experience, you can choose to log your meals by snapping a photo, using your voice, typing a text, or scanning a barcode.
We made food tracking easy so you can make more healthy choices for your body and mind.
JOIN 65 MILLION USERS ON THE PATH TO BETTER HEALTH.
Health isn’t about perfection—it’s about progress. Lifesum encourages small, manageable changes that add up to lasting results.… View full description on the official store →
Welcome to a new era of nutrition tracking, tailored to your style. With the new Lifesum experience, you can choose to log your meals by snapping a photo, using your voice, typing a text, or scanning a barcode.
We made food tracking easy so you can make more healthy choices for your body and mind.
JOIN 65 MILLION USERS ON THE PATH TO BETTER HEALTH.
Health isn’t about perfection—it’s about progress. Lifesum encourages small, manageable changes that add up to lasting results.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 228 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v23.9.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +9📂 Health & Fitness💰 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 ↑ 2.67 → 4.65 (improved 1.98★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.67 → 4.60 (improved 1.93★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.00 (improved 1.00★)
2025-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #10Ranked for 4 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
calorie counter·#10🇺🇸calorie food·#17🇺🇸weight loss·#24🇺🇸keto meals·#35🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Tech & Domain Intel — lifesum.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.55747★ | 10,345 | 4.55747★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.79225★ | 13,632 | 4.79225★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.52487★ | 14,487 | 4.52487★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.54731★ | 80,201 | 4.54731★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.54671★ | 33,837 | 4.54671★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.60188★ | 27,969 | 4.60188★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.56241★ | 2,059 | 4.56241★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.4164★ | 317 | 4.4164★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.64631★ | 149,623 | 4.64631★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lifesum: Kalorien Zähler AI: 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: 149,439 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lifesum make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lifesum earns approximately $16K/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 Lifesum?▴
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Who makes Lifesum?▴
Lifesum is published by Lifesum AB 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 Lifesum's BU Score?▴
Lifesum has a BU Score of 82/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.