Simple Envelope Budgeting
45
Quality Score
Emerging
Simple Envelope Budgeting
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Simple Envelope Budgeting is an iOS app from Frank Herring in the Finance category, currently rated 4.0★ across 8 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 45: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Finance app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$200
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$100 – $931
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$100 – $2790
per month
MICRO tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
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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
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
Total estimate
$80K
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$127 – $508
12 months
$100 – $931
24 months
$100 – $2.8K
Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 34/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreRevenue Strength
2.3
Product Quality
3.2
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.9
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.0★ across 8 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $3K-$6K.
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:
| Paid app ($1.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Good rating (4.0★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (8 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v2.4
- Envelope balances now animate more naturally when moving between funded, empty, and overspent states.
- Adding funds, adding expenses, editing transactions, deleting transactions, and resetting envelopes should feel more consistent and reliable.… Full release notes →
- Adding funds, adding expenses, editing transactions, deleting transactions, and resetting envelopes should feel more consistent and reliable.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Simple Envelope Budgeting
- Developer
- Frank Herring
- Bundle ID
- com.HerringFrank.Simple-Envelope
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Finance
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews4 latest · avg 4.0★ · 75.0% 5★ · 25.0% 1★
5★3 (75%)
4★0 (0%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★1 (25%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: perfect ×2 great ×1 recommend ×1 love ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Perfect
This app is user-friendly and simple - just what I needed to hold myself accountable with spending.…
★★★★★ Great App!
I’ve been looking for an app like this for a few months now. All the ones I’ve tried either have a monthly/annual fee or have ads plastered all over the screen. This app is cheap, straightforward, and easy to use. The only thing I feel that…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Recurring transaction
This is a monthly fee???…
★★★★★ Perfect
This app is user-friendly and simple - just what I needed to hold myself accountable with spending.…
📈Ratings growth8 ratings+700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (7 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
All The Features You Want:
- Syncs Via iCloud to All of Your Devices
- Goals for Savings
- Color-Coded Envelopes
- Supports iPhone and iPad
- Search Function to Quickly Find Envelopes
- Simple and Straightforward
- Reliable
- Indicates When You Are Over Budget
None of the Features You Don't:
- No Ads
- No In-App Purchases to Unlock Full Functionality
- No Syncing with Your Bank Account (I've never found an app that does this in a useful manner anyways)
- No Fancy Graphs / Pie Charts That You Don't Really Care About
Creating a budget is a crucial element of financial success.… View full description on the official store →
- Syncs Via iCloud to All of Your Devices
- Goals for Savings
- Color-Coded Envelopes
- Supports iPhone and iPad
- Search Function to Quickly Find Envelopes
- Simple and Straightforward
- Reliable
- Indicates When You Are Over Budget
None of the Features You Don't:
- No Ads
- No In-App Purchases to Unlock Full Functionality
- No Syncing with Your Bank Account (I've never found an app that does this in a useful manner anyways)
- No Fancy Graphs / Pie Charts That You Don't Really Care About
Creating a budget is a crucial element of financial success.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v2.4🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
📅
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
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.4
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.40 → 4.00 (improved 0.60★)
2026-04
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2025-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.40 (dropped 0.60★)
2025-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.67 → 4.00 (improved 0.33★)
2024-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.67 (improved 0.67★)
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.00 (dropped 2.00★)
2022-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 8 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Simple Envelope Budgeting is a early-stage iOS app in the finance space with weak public traction — only 8 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Simple Envelope Budgeting make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Simple Envelope Budgeting has only 8 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$86/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes Simple Envelope Budgeting?▴
Simple Envelope Budgeting is published by Frank Herring 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 Simple Envelope Budgeting's BU Score?▴
Simple Envelope Budgeting has a BU Score of 45/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.