PangoBooks: Buy & Sell Books
80
Quality Score
Excellent
PangoBooks: Buy & Sell Books
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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PangoBooks: Buy & Sell Books is an iOS app from Pangobooks Inc in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.9★ across 15,676 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 80: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Food & Drink 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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
$65K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $90K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 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 (68 MB) | +$7K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$65K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~2.7× 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
1.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
215K
Daily active
43K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% 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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 48/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Product Quality
9.8
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.4
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.9★ across 15,676 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($10K/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 (15,676 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (5y old)METRIC | +$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 · v3.0 (291)
In this release we made several backend improvements that improve performance.
- streamlined the bottom nav-bar and made it floating
- improved the ui on the account screens
- overall improvements to performance, and bug fixes
- streamlined the bottom nav-bar and made it floating
- improved the ui on the account screens
- overall improvements to performance, and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- PangoBooks: Buy & Sell Books
- Developer
- Pangobooks Inc
- Bundle ID
- com.grantwsingleton.pangobooks
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Pangobooks: Buy and Sell Used Books with Other Readers
- Description
- PangoBooks: The Marketplace for Book Lovers. Buy and sell used books with other readers.
- 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
- $10.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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.
📈Ratings growth15,676 ratings+74% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 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.
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
Buy, sell, and read with PangoBooks, the marketplace dedicated to book lovers.
PangoBooks is the easiest way to sell and buy books affordably and sustainably. Got books to sell? Open a bookstore from your home today, list your books in minutes, and transfer your earnings directly to your bank account. Looking for books to add to your shelves? Browse millions of titles available in our marketplace, see photos of the actual book you'd be getting, and enjoy the incredible savings at checkout.
OPEN YOUR OWN BOOKSTORE
• List a book in minutes.… View full description on the official store →
PangoBooks is the easiest way to sell and buy books affordably and sustainably. Got books to sell? Open a bookstore from your home today, list your books in minutes, and transfer your earnings directly to your bank account. Looking for books to add to your shelves? Browse millions of titles available in our marketplace, see photos of the actual book you'd be getting, and enjoy the incredible savings at checkout.
OPEN YOUR OWN BOOKSTORE
• List a book in minutes.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 68 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.4+🔖 v3.0 (291)🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.75 → 4.33 (dropped 0.42★)
2025-02
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for PangoBooks: Buy & Sell Books: 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: 15,676 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does PangoBooks make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, PangoBooks earns approximately $10K/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 PangoBooks?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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 PangoBooks?▴
PangoBooks is published by Pangobooks 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 PangoBooks's BU Score?▴
PangoBooks has a BU Score of 80/100 (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.