Plant Identifier: Plantiary
74
Quality Score
Strong
Plant Identifier: Plantiary
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Plant Identifier: Plantiary is an iOS app from Plantiary in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 24,018 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 74: 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
$1.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.2K – $4.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.1K – $9.8K
per month
INDIE 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
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$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 (137 MB) | +$34K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$17K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$25K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
360K
Daily active
105K
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
$1.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.1K – $2.7K
12 months
$1.2K – $4.2K
24 months
$1.1K – $9.8K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.1
Product Quality
9.3
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.1
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $537 - $3358/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.67★ across 24,018 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 = $24K-$42K.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (24,018 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (22 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$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 · v2.2.48
This Spring update brings a fresh look and major new capabilities to Plantiary:
- New "Liquid Glass" UI: A complete visual overhaul featuring a modern, beautiful, and transparent design language for a better user experience.… Full release notes →
- New "Liquid Glass" UI: A complete visual overhaul featuring a modern, beautiful, and transparent design language for a better user experience.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Plant Identifier: Plantiary
- Developer
- Plantiary
- Bundle ID
- com.plantiary.app
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, ID, IT, JA, PL, PT, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Your Personal Plant Care Assistant
- Description
- Your Personal Plant Care Assistant. Identify plants instantly, get expert care advice, and keep your green friends thriving with Plantiary
- 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
- $1.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#59 /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 growth24,018 ratings+129% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
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US
Top-grossing rank: #59 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#59 now · best #51 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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
Meet your ad-free field guide for home and garden. From living room to wild trails, Plantiary identifies plants, trees, flowers, houseplants, mushrooms, and insects, and creates tailored care plans so your plants flourish.
What You Get:
• Instant recognition of thousands of plant species from a single photo.
• Early-warning diagnostics: identify common issues like wilting, pests or nutrient deficiency and receive actionable care guidance.
• Custom reminders for watering, fertilising and checking soil conditions so your plant never gets neglected.… View full description on the official store →
What You Get:
• Instant recognition of thousands of plant species from a single photo.
• Early-warning diagnostics: identify common issues like wilting, pests or nutrient deficiency and receive actionable care guidance.
• Custom reminders for watering, fertilising and checking soil conditions so your plant never gets neglected.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 137 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v2.2.48🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, CS, DA, NL, EN +17📂 Education💰 Free
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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: freemium → free
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.06 → 4.60 (improved 2.54★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.60 → 1.91 (improved 0.31★)
2023-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.33 → 2.00 (dropped 0.33★)
2023-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
2023-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2022-12
🚀
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: Plantiary: 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: 24,018 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 make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Plant Identifier earns approximately $1.3K/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?▴
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Who makes Plant Identifier?▴
Plant Identifier is published by Plantiary 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's BU Score?▴
Plant Identifier has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.