Ricardo: kaufen & verkaufen
59
Quality Score
Solid
Ricardo: kaufen & verkaufen
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Ricardo: kaufen & verkaufen is an iOS app from ricardo.ch AG in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.7★ across 224 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Shopping 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
$518
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$453 – $1634
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$420 – $3781
per month
INDIE 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
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$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 (165 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 16× MRR multiple
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~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 ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
22K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.6K
Daily active
460
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
| 📲 Shopping engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Shopping D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU
18% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$518/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$442 – $1.0K
12 months
$453 – $1.6K
24 months
$420 – $3.8K
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 · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
6.6
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $207 - $1297/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.73★ across 224 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $9K-$16K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (224 ratings)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 · v9.6.1
You're just in time, the new version of Ricardo is here! It features some valuable improvements under the hood, as well as several bug fixes for the peace of mind of us all.
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Ricardo: kaufen & verkaufen
- Developer
- ricardo.ch AG
- Bundle ID
- swiss.ricardo.iphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $519/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Shopping
- 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 growth224 ratings+22300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (23 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.
🚀Version Release Timeline4 releases tracked
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
Ricardo – buy and sell on Switzerland’s online marketplace
Ricardo is one of Switzerland’s most trusted online marketplace platforms to buy and sell second-hand items. Discover over 3 million items, connect with millions of members, and find special offers starting at CHF 1.-.
Whether you want to buy second-hand, sell items, or browse for inspiration, Ricardo brings everything together in one simple, secure, and sustainable experience.
Discover over 3 million items
Explore one of the largest Swiss second-hand marketplaces with listings across every category:… View full description on the official store →
Ricardo is one of Switzerland’s most trusted online marketplace platforms to buy and sell second-hand items. Discover over 3 million items, connect with millions of members, and find special offers starting at CHF 1.-.
Whether you want to buy second-hand, sell items, or browse for inspiration, Ricardo brings everything together in one simple, secure, and sustainable experience.
Discover over 3 million items
Explore one of the largest Swiss second-hand marketplaces with listings across every category:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 165 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v9.6.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT📂 Shopping💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 ↑ 3.39 → 4.80 (improved 1.41★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-11
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.22 → 3.90 (dropped 0.32★)
2019-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.83 → 4.43 (dropped 0.40★)
2016-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2015-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Ricardo: kaufen & verkaufen: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 224 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Ricardo make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Ricardo earns approximately $518/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 Ricardo?▴
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Who makes Ricardo?▴
Ricardo is published by ricardo.ch AG 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 Ricardo's BU Score?▴
Ricardo has a BU Score of 59/100 (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.