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High-Scale Mobile Utility App Portfolio With 39.2M MAU For Sale

US
Asking Price:
$42,000,000
Sales Revenue:
$13,760,000
Cash Flow:
$6,800,000

This is a dominant mobile utility business in the QR and barcode scanning category, deeply embedded in global consumer behavior. Generating one of the largest independent streams of first-party product scanning data outside of major retailers, the asset offers a unique bridge between physical intent and digital commerce.

Financial Scale: €13.76M Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) Revenue.

Massive Reach: 39.2M Monthly Active Users (MAU) and 2.7M Daily Active Users (DAU).

Immediate Upside: Normalizing UA spend to 50% of revenue unlocks €6.8M in immediate profit.

Operational Efficiency: 100% founder-operated (5–10 hours/week) with no employees or overhead.

The Strategic Prize: First-Party Commerce Data
The business transcends simple utility; it is a high-fidelity behavioral engine. Every scan represents a direct signal of purchase consideration.

Buyer Archetype
Strategic Opportunity

Commerce Platforms

A direct DTC entry point; redirecting scans to listings drives transaction revenue.

AdTech & Data

Massive consented data for retail price intelligence and post-cookie targeting.

Mobile Publishers

39.2M MAU available for cross-promotion at zero marginal UA cost.

App Aggregators

Immediate profit optimization through UA reduction and subscription levers.

Proven Scale & Durability
With over 863 million lifetime downloads, the portfolio demonstrates extraordinary resilience across iOS and Android.

Organic Growth: Strong organic baseline, with iOS organic install rates reaching 76% in late 2025.

Extreme Retention: A legacy app removed from the store in 2020 continues to generate residual revenue years later without updates or marketing, proving habitual user behavior.

Platform Mix: Diversified across Android (~89% MAU) and iOS (~11% MAU).

Financial Performance & Profit Optimization
The business currently operates on a high-reinvestment growth model, reinvesting ~89% of revenue into a proprietary automated UA system to capture market share.
Immediate Profitability Levers

UA Reinvestment Rate
Normalized Profit (€)
Margin (%)

89% (Current)
€1.46M
10.6%

70%
€4.07M
29.6%

60%
€5.45M
39.6%

50% (Strategic Target)
€6.82M
49.6%

Untapped Value Creation
Current monetization is concentrated (96%+ Google AdMob), leaving significant "blue ocean" opportunities for a strategic operator.

Commerce Integration: Monetizing just 0.1% of DAU through affiliate/direct commerce could yield €7M+ incremental annual revenue.

Subscription Layer: No current premium tier; a €1.99/mo subscription for 5% of MAU would generate massive recurring revenue.

Ad Mediation: Transitioning to a mediated environment (e.g., AppLovin MAX) to increase eCPMs via demand competition.

Data Products: Packaging daily scan events for retail analytics and AdTech targeting.

Currency: USD

Target Price / Revenue: 3.05x

Target Price / EBITDA: 6.18x