Lyst: Don’t Shop Around
78
Quality Score
Strong
Lyst: Don’t Shop Around
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Lyst: Don’t Shop Around is an iOS app from Lyst in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.8★ across 83,974 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Shopping 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
💡 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~11 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 (134 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$25K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.6× 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% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
8.3M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.0M
Daily active
180K
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
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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 · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 83,974 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($9K/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 (83,974 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| 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 · v11.2.0
We’re constantly improving Lyst to make it the only fashion app you need.
This release includes bug fixes and updates to keep everything running smoothly.
This release includes bug fixes and updates to keep everything running smoothly.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lyst: Don’t Shop Around
- Developer
- Lyst
- Bundle ID
- com.lyst.lystapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- The Coach Charm Playground
- Description
- Shop and discover the world’s most stylish brands, curated for you. With more than 27,000 brands and stores in one place, Lyst is the definitive fashion destination.
- 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
- $9.8K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/Lyst · instagram instagram.com/lyst · tiktok tiktok.com/@lystapp · twitter x.com/lyst
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- lyst.com/help/contact-us
- About page
- lyst.com/about
📈Ratings growth83,974 ratings+21% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Join 200 million shoppers on Lyst — the multi-brand fashion store, re-imagined.
27,000 BRANDS, ONE APP:
Lyst has the world’s largest fashion catalog, from luxury to contemporary, streetwear, and emerging
labels. Get hard-to-find pieces from Miu Miu, Loewe, Saint Laurent, Nike, Jacquemus, SKIMS, COS,
and thousands more.
LET YOUR WISHLIST WORK FOR YOU:
Save the pieces you love and let Lyst do the tracking. Enable push notifications to receive alerts when
they go on sale or come back in stock.
PRICE COMPARISON BUILT IN:… View full description on the official store →
27,000 BRANDS, ONE APP:
Lyst has the world’s largest fashion catalog, from luxury to contemporary, streetwear, and emerging
labels. Get hard-to-find pieces from Miu Miu, Loewe, Saint Laurent, Nike, Jacquemus, SKIMS, COS,
and thousands more.
LET YOUR WISHLIST WORK FOR YOU:
Save the pieces you love and let Lyst do the tracking. Enable push notifications to receive alerts when
they go on sale or come back in stock.
PRICE COMPARISON BUILT IN:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 134 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v11.2.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 Paid
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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
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.60 → 4.90 (improved 1.30★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2017-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 3.67 (dropped 0.53★)
2013-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.20 (dropped 0.80★)
2013-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #28Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
amazon shopping·#28🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Tech & Domain Intel — lyst.com
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · AWS SES
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 | 4.77724★ | 3,093 | 4.77724★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82414★ | 1,359 | 4.82414★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.78923★ | 3,715 | 4.78923★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.77031★ | 2,203 | 4.77031★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.75764★ | 3,994 | 4.75764★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.8004★ | 20,767 | 4.8004★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.69172★ | 2,102 | 4.69172★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.65829★ | 1,434 | 4.65829★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84879★ | 84,093 | 4.84879★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lyst: Don’t Shop Around: 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: 83,974 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lyst make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lyst earns approximately $9.8K/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 Lyst?▴
Browse the full Shopping category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
Who makes Lyst?▴
Lyst is published by Lyst 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 Lyst's BU Score?▴
Lyst has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.