Paprika Recipe Manager 3
73
Quality Score
Strong
Paprika Recipe Manager 3
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Paprika Recipe Manager 3 is an iOS app from Hindsight Labs LLC in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.9★ across 52,801 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink 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
$28.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$29.6K – $62.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$36.6K – $109.9K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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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
🤖Also on Android
$1.1K/mo · 20K ratings · 4.9★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$55K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $40K – $75K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
Total estimate
$55K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
735K
Daily active
145K
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
$28.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$27.1K – $45.2K
12 months
$29.6K – $62.0K
24 months
$36.6K – $109K
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 · 53/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Product Quality
9.8
Revenue Strength
4.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.7
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $20K - $42K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.9★ across 52,801 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 = $514K-$914K.
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 (52,801 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (16 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 |
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 · v3.8.4
Fixed links not working.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Paprika Recipe Manager 3
- Developer
- Hindsight Labs LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.hindsightlabs.paprika.ios.v3
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HU, IT, JA, NB, PL, PT, ZH, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- www.paprikaapp.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- 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
- $557/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#16 /100 🇦🇺#24 /100 🇺🇸#32 /100 🇬🇧#43 /100 🇮🇳#45 /99 🇩🇪#59 /100 🇧🇷#92 /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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth52,801 ratings+49% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (39 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries
🇨🇦CA#16 /100
🇦🇺AU#24 /100
🇺🇸US#32 /100
🇬🇧GB#43 /100
🇮🇳IN#45 /99
🇩🇪DE#59 /100
🇧🇷BR#92 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#16 now · best #15 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
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
Organize your recipes. Create grocery lists. Plan your meals. Download recipes from your favorite websites. Seamlessly sync to all your devices.
Features
• Recipes - Download recipes from your favorite websites, or add your own.
• Grocery Lists - Create smart grocery lists that automatically combine ingredients and sort them by aisle.
• Pantry - Use the pantry to keep track of which ingredients you have and when they expire.
• Meal Planner - Plan your meals using our daily, weekly, or monthly calendars.
• Menus - Save your favorite meal plans as reusable menus.… View full description on the official store →
Features
• Recipes - Download recipes from your favorite websites, or add your own.
• Grocery Lists - Create smart grocery lists that automatically combine ingredients and sort them by aisle.
• Pantry - Use the pantry to keep track of which ingredients you have and when they expire.
• Meal Planner - Plan your meals using our daily, weekly, or monthly calendars.
• Menus - Save your favorite meal plans as reusable menus.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 34 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v3.8.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +11📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.31 → 4.90 (improved 0.59★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
🔧
Shipped update — v3.8.4 → v3.8.4
2024-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.89 (dropped 0.36★)
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2024-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #28Ranked for 2 App Store search queryies in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
meal planner·#28🇺🇸recipe finder·#29🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.846★ | 5,234 | 4.846★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.85074★ | 67 | 4.85074★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.86477★ | 7,565 | 4.86477★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.7573★ | 2,122 | 4.7573★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.68132★ | 273 | 4.68132★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.85318★ | 2,745 | 4.85318★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.97872★ | 47 | 4.97872★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.74576★ | 59 | 4.74576★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.89972★ | 52,824 | 4.89972★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Paprika Recipe Manager 3: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 52,801 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Paprika Recipe Manager 3 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Paprika Recipe Manager 3 earns approximately $556/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 Paprika Recipe Manager 3?▴
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Who makes Paprika Recipe Manager 3?▴
Paprika Recipe Manager 3 is published by Hindsight Labs 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 Paprika Recipe Manager 3's BU Score?▴
Paprika Recipe Manager 3 has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.