Planning Center Services
54
Quality Score
Solid
Planning Center Services
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Planning Center Services is an iOS app from Ministry Centered Technologies in the Business category, currently rated 3.7★ across 2,126 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 54: Solid (established niche player). For a Business app, that means established niche player. 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
$567
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$496 – $1787
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$459 – $4134
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- 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
$105K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $140K
$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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (99 MB) | +$19K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$35K |
Total estimate
$105K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
135K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
29K
Daily active
8.8K
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
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$567/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$483 – $1.1K
12 months
$496 – $1.8K
24 months
$459 – $4.1K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.8
Product Quality
6.7
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $226 - $1418/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.74★ across 2,126 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $10K-$18K. Portfolio play ($861/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Low install base (2,126 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| 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 · v6.8.4
- Chat Improvements
- CarPlay Improvements
- CarPlay Improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Planning Center Services
- Developer
- Ministry Centered Technologies
- Bundle ID
- com.ministrycentered.PlanningCenter
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Every part of your church, finally in sync
- Description
- Organize ministries, coordinate events, plan services, communicate with your team, and connect your congregation with integrated church management software.
- 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
- $861/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Business
- 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/PlanningCenter · instagram instagram.com/PlanningCenter · twitter twitter.com/PlanningCenter · youtube youtube.com/PlanningCenter
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- planningcenter.com/support
- About page
- planningcenter.com/about
📈Ratings growth2,126 ratings+27% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (51 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
You must already have an account at Planning Center to use this mobile app.
The Planning Center Services app is the best way to access your Planning Center Services account on your iOS device. Planning Center Services is an online scheduling and worship planning application to keep your staff and volunteers connected. With our native app, you get an optimized Planning Center experience wherever you are.… View full description on the official store →
The Planning Center Services app is the best way to access your Planning Center Services account on your iOS device. Planning Center Services is an online scheduling and worship planning application to keep your staff and volunteers connected. With our native app, you get an optimized Planning Center experience wherever you are.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 99 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v6.8.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Business💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.72 → 3.74 (improved 1.02★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.70 → 2.72 (dropped 0.98★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.72 → 3.70 (improved 0.98★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.80 (dropped 0.45★)
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2019-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #42Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
scheduling·#42🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Planning Center Services: 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 medium confidence: 2,126 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Planning Center Services make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Planning Center Services earns approximately $861/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 Planning Center Services?▴
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Who makes Planning Center Services?▴
Planning Center Services is published by Ministry Centered Technologies 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 Planning Center Services's BU Score?▴
Planning Center Services has a BU Score of 54/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.