Tip Sheet
47
Quality Score
Emerging
Tip Sheet
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Tip Sheet is an iOS app from Rick Friele in the Finance category, currently rated 2.9★ across 35 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 47: 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
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
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$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 |
| ⚙ Finance complexity ×1.60 | +$30K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$275K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $200K – $350K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~3.4× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Finance category multiple | +15% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
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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
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Insufficient data · 32/100MICRO TIERtoo early to scoreGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Product Quality
2.4
Revenue Strength
2.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.94★ across 35 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3927d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3927d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($20K/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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.9★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (35 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 · v3.5
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
- Added support for Apple Watch
- Added Today Day widget to see current and previous pay period earnings
- Added ability to track tips from others… Full release notes →
- Added support for Apple Watch
- Added Today Day widget to see current and previous pay period earnings
- Added ability to track tips from others… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tip Sheet
- Developer
- Rick Friele
- Bundle ID
- com.rickfriele.tipsheet
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $20.7K/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.
📈Ratings growth35 ratings+-83% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (54 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)
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 #1 App for keeping track of your tips! Now with support for Apple Watch!
Keep track of your tip earnings with ease! This is the perfect app for anyone in the service industry or anyone who has tip income.
Track hourly pay, cash tips, credit card tips, tips to others, sales, and much more! See what you've made month to date, year to date and more.
- Support for multiple jobs and multiple hourly pay rates
- Apple Watch support
- Sync with multiple devices via iCloud
- Today View widget
- Calendar view for quick navigation… View full description on the official store →
Keep track of your tip earnings with ease! This is the perfect app for anyone in the service industry or anyone who has tip income.
Track hourly pay, cash tips, credit card tips, tips to others, sales, and much more! See what you've made month to date, year to date and more.
- Support for multiple jobs and multiple hourly pay rates
- Apple Watch support
- Sync with multiple devices via iCloud
- Today View widget
- Calendar view for quick navigation… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 4 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 7.0+🔖 v3.5🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.00 (dropped 1.25★)
2012-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2011-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-08
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2009-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 35 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Tip Sheet make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Tip Sheet earns approximately $20K/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 Tip Sheet?▴
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Who makes Tip Sheet?▴
Tip Sheet is published by Rick Friele 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 Tip Sheet's BU Score?▴
Tip Sheet has a BU Score of 47/100 (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.