Deliberately unbranded Android VPN app built in about three hours to bypass the Ukrainian block on VK, Yandex and Odnoklassniki; it grew to 170,000 daily active users. An inbound buyer offered $50,000 in 2017 and the solo developer accepted on the spot.
The $50,000 sale price puts it in the upper half of the 547 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $21,000. 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 64 Mobile App exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $5,400. 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.
See how this compares across the market on our market stats page, or browse more Mobile App exits.
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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.