Sugarmate by Tandem
73
Quality Score
Strong
Sugarmate by Tandem
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Sugarmate by Tandem is an iOS app from Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.7★ across 14,537 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 73: 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- 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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~4.1y 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 (52 MB) | +$610 |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$25K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $30K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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
1.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
215K
Daily active
64K
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
30% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
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 · 51/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.4
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.9
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.7★ across 14,537 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($12K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 (14,537 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 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 · v4.2.2
- Workflow for sharing data with followers now available globally
- Addition of Tandem Source as a data source, including CGM data only (feature availability varies by region)
- Overall app performance enhancements
- Addition of Tandem Source as a data source, including CGM data only (feature availability varies by region)
- Overall app performance enhancements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sugarmate by Tandem
- Developer
- Tandem Diabetes Care Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.wildvillage.sugartime
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, NB, PT, ES, SV
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Sugarmate Web Application
- 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
- $1.2K/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 growth14,537 ratings+33% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (43 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
Sugarmate by Tandem helps reduce the guesswork that often accompanies diabetes management by
giving you the tools you need to get the most out of your CGM data. Whether you are living with type 1
diabetes or are a caregiver, you can use the innovative features on the app to tailor your data
experience.
With Sugarmate by Tandem you get:
• enhanced CGM data visualization
• a digital diary for hassle-free logging so you can track your trends
• customizable tools to help you stay in the know
• the freedom to share your data with those close to you… View full description on the official store →
giving you the tools you need to get the most out of your CGM data. Whether you are living with type 1
diabetes or are a caregiver, you can use the innovative features on the app to tailor your data
experience.
With Sugarmate by Tandem you get:
• enhanced CGM data visualization
• a digital diary for hassle-free logging so you can track your trends
• customizable tools to help you stay in the know
• the freedom to share your data with those close to you… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 52 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v4.2.2🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +7📂 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
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.35 → 4.70 (improved 1.35★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.35 → 4.60 (improved 1.25★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-08
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.56 → 4.20 (dropped 0.36★)
2019-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2019-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Sugarmate by Tandem: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
More by Tandem Diabetes Care Inc.
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
4apps·$12K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 80% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 14,537 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Sugarmate by Tandem make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sugarmate by Tandem earns approximately $1.2K/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 Sugarmate by Tandem?▴
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Who makes Sugarmate by Tandem?▴
Sugarmate by Tandem is published by Tandem Diabetes Care 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 Sugarmate by Tandem's BU Score?▴
Sugarmate by Tandem has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.