Lowe's Home Improvement
84
Quality Score
Excellent
Lowe's Home Improvement
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This app targets the home improvement and DIY market, directly competing with similar retail giants like The Home Depot and Ace Hardware, all vying for the same customer base of homeowners and professional contractors. Its exceptionally high volume of ratings, coupled with a strong average, signals significant user traction and a deeply established market presence. This isn't a growth-stage app; it’s a mature, dominant player that has successfully integrated its physical retail experience with a robust digital offering. For free shopping apps in this category, a common monetization strategy revolves around driving in-store purchases and leveraging loyalty programs rather than direct in-app purchases for digital goods. Success is measured by increased basket size, repeat visits, and reduced friction in the purchase journey, often through features like order pickup and personalized recommendations.
BU Score 84 · Excellent — strong product-market fit. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$2.5M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.6M – $4.1M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.2M – $5.9M
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$3.2K/mo · 309K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.8y 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 (390 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
172.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
20.5M
Daily active
3.6M
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$2.5M – $3.3M
12 months
$2.6M – $4.1M
24 months
$3.2M – $5.9M
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 · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksRevenue Strength
6.4
Product Quality
9.5
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $1.0M - $5.5M/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.77★ across 1,720,977 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $45.0M-$80.0M.
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,720,977 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y 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 · v26.5.3
The Lowe’s app has been reimagined for iOS 26 with a fluid, modern design that makes navigation effortless and shopping more immersive.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lowe's Home Improvement
- Developer
- Lowe's Companies, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.lowes.mobile.consumer.iphone.lowes
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Access Denied
- Description
- Not found
- 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
- $5.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
Publicly available data, including information from Sensor Tower, indicates that the Lowe's Home Improvement iOS app does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions. While Sensor Tower tracks app performance metrics like downloads (estimated at 400,000 last month), specific revenue estimates for the app itself are not publicly disclosed. The app primarily serves as a tool to facilitate overall Lowe's sales, both online and in-store, rather than a direct revenue-generating product.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Reddit
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.69★ · 36.7% 5★ · 51.0% 1★
5★18 (37%)
4★0 (0%)
3★5 (10%)
2★1 (2%)
1★25 (51%)
+10,656 ratings/week
Praise: great ×9 love ×2 best ×2Complaints: hate ×2 crash ×2 worst ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Love Lowe’s
I recently started a porch garden and Lowe’s has helped me with all the items I researched. I love the fact that they deliver quickly and I e purchased several starter plants and veggies…
★★★★★ Zoom
Make it so you can zoom in on everything on the app. I have visual difficulties. Even if I use my tablet, it is difficult for me to see and read all this specifications of a product. Home Depot allows you to zoom in on and therefore, I h…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Site update
I can no longer access Lowe’s because my iPhone is not 17 ios. So what should I do?…
★☆☆☆☆ Useless and stupid
I opted for the “passkey” instead of password for better security. However, the app never leaves me logged in, and when I try to log in, it throws up a 2D code to scan! So now I need go have TWO PHONES on me to access the app? Useless an…
📈Ratings growth1,720,977 ratings+36% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
Lowe’s Knows Home Improvement
Whether you’re a Pro or have a DIY project on your mind, our app lets you search and shop thousands of products— anytime, on the go.
NEW! EXCLUSIVE PRO EXPERIENCE
A new experience just for Pros is here. Simply sign in with your Pro account and get access to all the Lowe’s for Pros features that make running your business easier.
AISLE & SHELF INFO
See aisle and shelf information right on the list page—so you know where to go in store. Plus, toggle with a switch to shop only at your preferred Lowe’s store.
MOBILE CHECK-IN FOR STORE PICKUP… View full description on the official store →
Whether you’re a Pro or have a DIY project on your mind, our app lets you search and shop thousands of products— anytime, on the go.
NEW! EXCLUSIVE PRO EXPERIENCE
A new experience just for Pros is here. Simply sign in with your Pro account and get access to all the Lowe’s for Pros features that make running your business easier.
AISLE & SHELF INFO
See aisle and shelf information right on the list page—so you know where to go in store. Plus, toggle with a switch to shop only at your preferred Lowe’s store.
MOBILE CHECK-IN FOR STORE PICKUP… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 390 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v26.5.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Free
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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? → v26.4.7
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.09 → 4.80 (improved 1.71★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.56 → 4.20 (dropped 0.36★)
2026-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lowe's Home Improvement: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 97% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 1,720,977 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lowe's Home Improvement make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lowe's Home Improvement earns approximately $5.4K/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 Lowe's Home Improvement?▴
Lowe's Home Improvement is published by Lowe's Companies, Inc. 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 Lowe's Home Improvement's BU Score?▴
Lowe's Home Improvement has a BU Score of 84/100 (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.