OBDLink
78
Quality Score
Strong
OBDLink
High confidence
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OBDLink is an iOS app from OBD Solutions LLC in the Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 11,457 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Travel 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 tierFREE
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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
$1.0K/mo · 18K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 (60 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$16K |
Total estimate
$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $400K – $700K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~7.1× 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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
125K
Daily active
18K
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
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
🔬
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 45/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
8.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.1
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.78★ across 11,457 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -1.46 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 ($30K/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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (11,457 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (9 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v7.2.0
• Added enhanced diagnostics for 2025 and 2026 Mazda vehicles.
• Added support for state displays to user-defined PIDs. A state display is a textual value that's mapped to a numeric value (e.g. 0 = "Off", 1 = "On").
• Added support for state displays to digital gauges.… Full release notes →
• Added support for state displays to user-defined PIDs. A state display is a textual value that's mapped to a numeric value (e.g. 0 = "Off", 1 = "On").
• Added support for state displays to digital gauges.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- OBDLink
- Developer
- OBD Solutions LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.obdsol.obdlink
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Travel
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- CS, EN, FR, DE, EL, IT, PT, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- OBDLink® - Home
- Description
- The OBDLink® scan tools offer you ultimate access to your vehicle so you can take back control of your vehicle! Purchase one today.
- 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
- $30.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Travel
- 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/OBDLink · instagram instagram.com/obdlink · twitter twitter.com/obdlink · youtube youtube.com/channel/UC4WF04EDavhWNSiA…
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- obdlink.com/support
- About page
- obdlink.com/about-us
📈Ratings growth11,457 ratings+38% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (32 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
***The OBDLink app exclusively works with OBDLink MX+, OBDLink CX, and OBDLink MX WiFi OBD adapters***
***The app will NOT function with any other brand of OBD adapter.***
***MX+ provides Unlimited Free OEM Add-ons, No in-app fees***
Convert your phone or tablet into a full-fledged diagnostic scan tool: read diagnostic trouble codes, clear the "Check Engine" light, check emissions readiness, estimate fuel economy and much more!
Key features:
- Check and clear diagnostic trouble codes
- Read freeze frame data
- Display real-time data (over 90 parameters!)
- Customizable dashboards… View full description on the official store →
***The app will NOT function with any other brand of OBD adapter.***
***MX+ provides Unlimited Free OEM Add-ons, No in-app fees***
Convert your phone or tablet into a full-fledged diagnostic scan tool: read diagnostic trouble codes, clear the "Check Engine" light, check emissions readiness, estimate fuel economy and much more!
Key features:
- Check and clear diagnostic trouble codes
- Read freeze frame data
- Display real-time data (over 90 parameters!)
- Customizable dashboards… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 60 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v7.2.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, EN, FR, DE, EL +4📂 Travel💰 Paid
📅
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
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.57 → 4.70 (improved 1.13★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.67 → 2.50 (improved 0.83★)
2014-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.67 (improved 0.67★)
2014-07
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 357 reviews across 8 markets● 65% positive · ● 10% neutral · ● 25% negative · Rating drift: -1.46★ (declining — recent 50: 3.32★ vs lifetime: 4.78★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇦🇺 AU
+0.41
🇺🇸 US
+0.39
🇨🇦 CA
+0.32
🇯🇵 JP
+0.24
🇬🇧 GB
+0.23
🇫🇷 FR
+0.22
🇧🇷 BR
+0.06
🇩🇪 DE
-0.11
Top praise themes
apple carplay ×9 highly recommend ×6 live data ×4 bluetooth connection ×4 carplay support ×4 check engine ×4 paid itself ×4 scan tool ×4
Top complaint themes
stay connected ×7 oil temp ×5 only works ×4 latest update ×4 doesn't work ×4 obd2 reader ×3 won connect ×3 trouble codes ×3
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 3%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.63209★ | 511 | 4.63209★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.76923★ | 65 | 4.76923★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.71361★ | 1,051 | 4.71361★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.63818★ | 351 | 4.63818★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.58451★ | 142 | 4.58451★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.73841★ | 367 | 4.73841★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.46316★ | 95 | 4.46316★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78308★ | 11,636 | 4.78308★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for OBDLink: 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: 11,457 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does OBDLink make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, OBDLink earns approximately $30K/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 OBDLink?▴
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Who makes OBDLink?▴
OBDLink is published by OBD Solutions LLC 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 OBDLink's BU Score?▴
OBDLink 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.