Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews
77
Quality Score
Strong
Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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This iOS utility app firmly occupies the local discovery and review niche, directly competing with Google Maps and TripAdvisor for user attention when seeking businesses. Its substantial user rating, paired with millions of individual ratings, signals robust, long-term traction and a mature product. This isn't a growth-stage app; it’s an established platform with a massive, active user base. Given its free monetization model, revenue likely stems from advertising and business-side subscriptions, rather than direct consumer payments. For the Utilities category, a common monetization observation is the potential for premium features offered via subscription, such as enhanced analytics for business owners or ad-free experiences for power users, which could further diversify revenue streams beyond its current ad-centric approach.
BU Score 77 · Strong — healthy traction. The full Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track snapshot history and revenue forecast in the Performance section below.
💰 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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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
$4.2K/mo · 643K ratings · 4.6★
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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
📈
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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (305 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
👥 Estimated audience size
390.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
78.0M
Daily active
15.5M
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🔬
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 49/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.9
Product Quality
9.1
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.3
Market Position
0.3
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.53★ across 1,952,808 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 ($7K/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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,952,808 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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 · v26.23.0
Minor updates and improvements, making Yelp better for you one release at a time.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews
- Developer
- Yelp
- Bundle ID
- com.yelp.yelpiphone
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, IT, JA, MS, NB, PL, PT, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- www.yelp.com
- 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
- $17/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 growth1,952,808 ratings+46% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (2 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
Yelp has over 199 million reviews of businesses worldwide. Whether you’re looking for a new pizza place to try, a great coffee shop nearby, or need to book a haircut, Yelp is your local guide for finding the perfect place to eat, shop, drink, explore, and relax. The Yelp app is available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
Yelp features:
Food Near You - Find Restaurants
• Find the newest and hottest restaurants in your area
• Make reservations, order delivery or pickup—all from your phone
• Filter restaurant search results by price, location, open now, and more… View full description on the official store →
Yelp features:
Food Near You - Find Restaurants
• Find the newest and hottest restaurants in your area
• Make reservations, order delivery or pickup—all from your phone
• Filter restaurant search results by price, location, open now, and more… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 305 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v26.23.0🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +13📂 Utilities💰 Free
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v26.20.0
2026-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #4Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
restaurant finder·#4🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Yelp: Food, Services & Reviews: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 1,952,808 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Yelp make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Yelp earns approximately $17/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.
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Who makes Yelp?▴
Yelp is published by Yelp 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 Yelp's BU Score?▴
Yelp has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.