Plant Identifier, Care: Planty
75
Quality Score
Strong
Plant Identifier, Care: Planty
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Plant Identifier, Care: Planty is an iOS app from Must Have Apps in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 37,507 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Education 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
$22.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$23.2K – $48.6K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$28.8K – $86.3K
per month
MID tier
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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
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 ~2.6y 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 (292 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $75K · 18× MRR multiple
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~0.7× 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% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
565K
Daily active
165K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$22.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$21.3K – $35.5K
12 months
$23.2K – $48.6K
24 months
$28.8K – $86.3K
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 · 54/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.9
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
4.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.1
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $15K - $33K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 37,507 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 = $403K-$717K.
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 (37,507 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v1.23.27
We've fixed some bugs and boosted performance to make Planty smoother and faster. Update now and enjoy a seamless gardening experience!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Plant Identifier, Care: Planty
- Developer
- Must Have Apps
- Bundle ID
- co.theplanty.plant.identification.care
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- theplanty.co
- Tagline
- Plant Identification, Caring: Planty
- Description
- Planty helps you become a better plant parent.
- 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
- $3.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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 growth37,507 ratings+126% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (34 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
Do your plants die despite your best efforts? Want to be a better plant parent? Save your plants with Planty! Watch them grow healthy and strong.
Download Planty now and Try it for Free!
Have trouble taking care of your plants? Say goodbye to your plant care problems! Here's Planty!
Planty is a plant care guide & companion app that helps you identify plants around you, find the info, and set up care reminders for any plant. Try it now for free!
Planty was developed by consulting expert botanists and hundreds of plant parents from around the world.… View full description on the official store →
Download Planty now and Try it for Free!
Have trouble taking care of your plants? Say goodbye to your plant care problems! Here's Planty!
Planty is a plant care guide & companion app that helps you identify plants around you, find the info, and set up care reminders for any plant. Try it now for free!
Planty was developed by consulting expert botanists and hundreds of plant parents from around the world.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 292 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v1.23.27🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid
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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
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.09 → 4.70 (improved 1.61★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.14 (dropped 0.36★)
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.67 → 3.00 (dropped 0.67★)
2023-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.67 (dropped 1.33★)
2023-01
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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 Plant Identifier, Care: Planty: 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: 37,507 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Plant Identifier, Care make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Plant Identifier, Care earns approximately $3.6K/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 Plant Identifier, Care?▴
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Who makes Plant Identifier, Care?▴
Plant Identifier, Care is published by Must Have Apps 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 Plant Identifier, Care's BU Score?▴
Plant Identifier, Care has a BU Score of 75/100 (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.