RentCafe Resident
88
Quality Score
Excellent
RentCafe Resident
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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RentCafe Resident is an iOS app from Yardi Systems, Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.8★ across 915,296 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 88: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Utilities 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
$600K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$635K – $978K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$759K – $1410K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- 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
$1.7K/mo · 161K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4 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 (61 MB) | +$4K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-8222 |
Total estimate
$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $150K – $250K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~3.9× 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% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (100K+ ratings) | +5% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
183.0M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
36.5M
Daily active
7.3M
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$600K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$591K – $800K
12 months
$635K – $978K
24 months
$759K – $1.4M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
9.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $240K - $1320K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 915,296 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 = $10.8M-$19.2M.
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:
| High install base (915,296 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v26.4.0
Thank you for being an awesome app user! We appreciate your commitment to our app. We’ve made some general improvements and bug fixes in this update.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- RentCafe Resident
- Developer
- Yardi Systems, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.yardi.rentcafe.resident
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- www.rentcafe.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
- $11.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "RentCafe Resident" by Yardi Systems, Inc. is a utility application designed for residents to manage their tenancy, including paying rent, submitting maintenance requests, and reserving amenities. The app itself is free to download and does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions. Its value is as a component of Yardi's broader RentCafe platform, which supports property management services. While the app facilitates rent payments, any associated transaction fees are typically for third-party payment systems, not direct revenue for the app. Therefore, no direct revenue estimates for the app itself are publicly available.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Statista, Google Play, App Store, Yardi Systems, Inc.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.59★ · 81.6% 5★ · 4.1% 1★
5★40 (82%)
4★3 (6%)
3★3 (6%)
2★1 (2%)
1★2 (4%)
+94,962 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 love ×5 amazing ×1 best ×1 excellent ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Very easy to make a payment
Good…
★★★★★ Easy
I enjoy it makes things simple…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Lags
When it works it works.…
★☆☆☆☆ No Apple Pay! Making Users Pay Fee
The app gives an Apple pay option but a hidden page element in the app won’t allow you to scroll down to click. It’s visible when you scroll up but when you lift your finger, a hidden page element blocks you from viewing or clicking it. Thi…
📈Ratings growth915,296 ratings+23% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (6 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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
The RentCafe Resident app is your partner in all things related to your community, especially when you’re on the go. We make it easy to pay rent, request maintenance, or reserve amenities.
RentCafe Resident App features (options vary based on each community):
- Submit one-time payments in three easy steps with various payment methods.
- Set up monthly automatic payments to help you avoid late fees.
- Share rent, utility, and other costs with roommates using monthly automatic payments
- Submit maintenance requests with photos and voice memos and track progress along the way.… View full description on the official store →
RentCafe Resident App features (options vary based on each community):
- Submit one-time payments in three easy steps with various payment methods.
- Set up monthly automatic payments to help you avoid late fees.
- Share rent, utility, and other costs with roommates using monthly automatic payments
- Submit maintenance requests with photos and voice memos and track progress along the way.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 61 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v26.4.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, DA, NL, EN, FR +5📂 Utilities💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 ↑ 4.34 → 4.83 (improved 0.49★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.34 → 4.80 (improved 0.46★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.40 → 4.09 (dropped 0.31★)
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.87777★ | 90 | 4.87777★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.90385★ | 156 | 4.90385★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.78064★ | 17,063 | 4.78064★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.81579★ | 76 | 4.81579★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.78378★ | 74 | 4.78378★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.78777★ | 556 | 4.78777★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.78775★ | 768 | 4.78775★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.79746★ | 237 | 4.79746★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83305★ | 930,743 | 4.83305★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for RentCafe Resident: 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: 915,296 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does RentCafe Resident make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, RentCafe Resident earns approximately $11K/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.
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Who makes RentCafe Resident?▴
RentCafe Resident is published by Yardi Systems, 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 RentCafe Resident's BU Score?▴
RentCafe Resident has a BU Score of 88/100 (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.