iOS app that helped users quit vaping by tracking their puffs; scaled to $40K+ MRR and over 1M users before solo founder Steven Cravotta sold it to app studio Quiet in late 2024.
This database tracks 67 Mobile App exits, and the ones that disclosed a price sold at a median of $5,800. 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.
From founding to sale took 2.0 years. Time to exit is a decent proxy for how built-to-sell a business was: shorter, cleaner processes usually mean documented operations and fewer surprises in due diligence.
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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.