50
Quality Score
Solid
Tip Simple
✍️ bumetric analysis
“
Tip Simple is an iOS app from Chris Dressler in the Finance category, currently rated 5.0★ across 1 ratings. Initial signal reads as no scraped reviews yet: judgment based on metadata only.
Quality Score is 50: Solid (established niche player). For a Finance 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$711/mo
In 12 months
$621 – $2240
In 24 months
$576 – $5183
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
Loading…
Rating
—
Reviews
—
Forecast Revenue / mo
—
Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$711/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$605 – $1.4K
12 months
$621 – $2.2K
24 months
$576 – $5.2K
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.
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
2 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 $0.99 price point
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
4.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
9.0
Founder Strength
5.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $284 - $1777/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 5.0★ across 1 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 212d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ 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 = $12K-$22K. Portfolio play ($10K/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.
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
🔔
Track this app’s revenue
FREEGet an email when revenue moves by your threshold. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
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 ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (5.0★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (1 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 11 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.6+🔖 v4.0🔄 updated 7mo ago🌐 EN📂 Finance💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y old)
📝 About this app
Tip Simple is a convenient, easy-to-use tip calculator application with a Simple and Custom tipping mode. Additionally we've included tipping standards for the United States to help with common questions about tip etiquette.
Simple Mode:
Use simple mode to handle more common restaurant scenarios where there is a party from 1 - 6 and you'd like to select from a standard set of tip percentages. The key here is speed--just enter your bill amount, tap a few settings and you're done!
Custom Mode:… View full description on the official store →
Simple Mode:
Use simple mode to handle more common restaurant scenarios where there is a party from 1 - 6 and you'd like to select from a standard set of tip percentages. The key here is speed--just enter your bill amount, tap a few settings and you're done!
Custom Mode:… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v4.0
• Fully updated to support iOS 26
• Performance improvements
• Updated tipping standards library
• Added additional settings and bill sharing feature
• Performance improvements
• Updated tipping standards library
• Added additional settings and bill sharing feature
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tip Simple
- Developer
- Chris Dressler
- Bundle ID
- com.factory206.TipSimple
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Finance
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Apps that Inspire and Engage
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
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.
📈Ratings growth1 ratingsShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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 → $0.99 (+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.
More by Chris Dressler
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$10K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 99% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Tip Simple: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.