An iOS app for tracking car running costs — fuel, car washes, parking, wipers and servicing. It peaked at #17 in the Russian App Store and grossed about 115,000 rubles before the founder sold it for 25,000 rubles (~$400) to a buyer he found on the iPhones.ru forum.
The $400 sale price puts it in the bottom quarter of the 594 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000. Most indie acquisitions cluster well under the headline numbers founders read about, which is exactly why a real distribution is more useful than an average.
This database tracks 71 Mobile App exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $4,950. Category matters more than founders expect: buyers apply different discount rates to a content business, a mobile app and a B2B tool even at identical revenue.
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Language learning app for commuters
Stock Alarm was a mobile app that phones users with call alerts when a chosen stock makes significant price moves; it grew to hundreds of thousands of users and sold for 500,000 dollars to Center Mark Capital via Acquire.com in 2023.
Bootstrapped indie studio that built AI-powered beauty and effects mobile apps, growing via App Store Optimization (ASO) and organic installs before exiting on Acquire.com.