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Micro SaaS ideas

App ideas being paid for, not just downloaded

Every published company shipping a mobile app rather than a web product.

Companies

8

Median revenue

$98.8K/mo

Median ad spend

$8,369/mo

Creative still live

20%

What is already selling

Every company in this space, cheapest to enter against first.

Download counts are the vanity metric of this market and they are not on this page. What is here is what each app spends to acquire and what that spend implies about the subscription revenue behind it, which is the only version of the number that survives contact with the app store’s own economics.

How this list is drawn: Product type classified as a mobile app. Ordered by thirty-day ad spend, lowest first - what it costs to be visible against them, not who is biggest.

Revenue is modelled from measured ad spend, not reported by the company. The band beside each figure is the range the model produced and it is wide on purpose - the method page shows the arithmetic and says where it stops being reliable.

Cost of entry

Cheapest door in: $2,066 a month.

Huunooapp - app where local tradespeople and makers list skills to be found nearby - is modelled at $26.7K a month on the smallest advertising budget in this space. That is the number to beat, and it is measured rather than claimed.

Median ad spend

$8,369/mo

What the middle company pays to stay visible.

Total spend, 30 days

$115,435

Across all 8, priced country by country.

Biggest here

$438.1K

Chip sets the ceiling on the ambition.

Still serving

20%

Share of all creative ever run that is still live.

Where the buyers are

The markets this space is actually being sold into.

Reach-weighted across every advertiser in the cut, so one small company with a lopsided country mix cannot move the picture.

United Kingdom58%
Everywhere else22%
Italy6%
Germany5%
Spain4%

Which way it is moving

Budgets up, budgets down.

An advertiser raising a budget is the least ambiguous signal available from outside a company. It costs real money and nobody does it against a product that is not converting.

3 of 8 increased spend over the last thirty days; 2 cut it.

Questions

App ideas being paid for, not just downloaded, answered.

Every answer below is computed from the 8 companies on this page.

Which app ideas make recurring revenue?
8 companies in this space are advertising right now, and the model puts the middle of them at $98.8K a month. The full range runs from $26.7K up to $438.1K. Those are modelled figures with a stated band, not reported revenue - the method and its failure modes are on the method page.
What does it cost to compete here?
The median company in this cut spends $8,369 a month on advertising, and the cheapest, Huunooapp, spends $2,066 while being modelled at $26.7K a month. Across all 8 the thirty-day total is $115,435. That is the entry price to be visible against them on the same channel.
Is this space still growing?
3 of 8 increased ad spend over the last thirty days against 2 cutting it, and 20% of all the creative ever run here is still serving. Money moving in is the least ambiguous signal available from outside a company.
Where do these companies find customers?
Reach is concentrated in United Kingdom, Everywhere else, Italy. Those shares are weighted by each advertiser's own reach, so one small company with a lopsided country mix cannot move the picture. The archive covers EU and UK delivery, so a campaign running only in the US is invisible here rather than absent.

The rest of the index

1,400+ priced products, not 51.

This page is a cut of the free sample. The index behind it prices every software advertiser we can measure, marks the $500K a month line on each one, and is searchable by category, budget and momentum.

287,014 creatives across 36 countries.

Find something worth building.

1,400+ products, priced from their own advertising, and the $500K a month line marked on each one - so you can see at a glance what is still enterable.