Valvoline Instant Oil Change
73
Quality Score
Strong
Valvoline Instant Oil Change
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Valvoline Instant Oil Change is an iOS app from Valvoline Instant Oil Change in the Shopping category, currently rated 4.6★ across 2,138 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 73: Strong (healthy traction). For a Shopping 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
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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
🤖Also on Android
$663/mo · 4K ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (69 MB) | +$7K |
| ⚙ Shopping complexity ×1.30 | +$17K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$400K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $300K – $500K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~5.3× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Shopping category multiple | +2% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
210K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
25K
Daily active
4.5K
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
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 · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
8.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.6
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.62★ across 2,138 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 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 ($25K/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:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (2,138 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)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 · v1.7.3
Thanks for using our app! We’ve been hard at work under the hood to improve your app experience. This release includes minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Valvoline Instant Oil Change
- Developer
- Valvoline Instant Oil Change
- Bundle ID
- com.mobile.VIOC
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Shopping
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Automotive Maintenance Services - Valvoline Instant Oil Change
- Description
- For more than 35 years, Valvoline Instant Oil Change has provided oil changes and quick, convenient automotive preventive maintenance services for busy people.
- 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
- $24.8K/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 growth2,138 ratings+51% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (56 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.
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
Time for an oil change? The Valvoline Instant Oil Change app is ready to help you save time and money! Designed to make maintaining your vehicles easy on your schedule and wallet. This is the only app that gives you estimated wait times for your nearby Valvoline Instant Oil Change locations. So, you can plan to arrive when the wait is short with your personalized coupons already conveniently saved in the app. Our friendly staff of professional technicians is here to help with maintenance services that fit your schedule and prices that fit your budget.
Features:… View full description on the official store →
Features:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 69 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v1.7.3🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Shopping💰 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 →
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.7.3
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.86 → 4.61 (improved 0.75★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2020-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.83 → 3.14 (improved 0.31★)
2019-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.40 → 2.83 (improved 0.43★)
2019-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.75 → 2.40 (improved 0.65★)
2018-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
2018-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.62276★ | 2,179 | 4.62276★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Valvoline Instant Oil Change: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 97% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 2,138 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Valvoline Instant Oil Change make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Valvoline Instant Oil Change earns approximately $24K/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 Valvoline Instant Oil Change?▴
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Who makes Valvoline Instant Oil Change?▴
Valvoline Instant Oil Change is published by Valvoline Instant Oil Change 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 Valvoline Instant Oil Change's BU Score?▴
Valvoline Instant Oil Change 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.