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Consumer Reports earns about
$47.9K/month
range $26.4K – $69.5K · $575.3K/year
Live data · refreshed every hour
Per Day
$1.6K
$879 – $2.3K
Per Week
$11.2K
$6.2K – $16.2K
Per Month
$47.9K
$26.4K – $69.5K
Per Year
$575.3K
$316.4K – $834.2K
Lifetime
$1.44M
$791.0K – $2.09M
Brand revenue
📰 Reported
Consumer Reports - full brand revenue
Annual brand revenue (2024)
$238M/year
App Store / Play Store share
1%
≈ $575K/year of in-app revenue
Off-store revenue (everything else)
$237M/year
99% of total brand revenue
Consumer Reports earns about $238M/year across the whole brand.
Most of that money comes from off-store revenue - trading fees, commissions, payment processing, ad sales, hardware, enterprise contracts - not in-app purchases or subscriptions on the App Store / Google Play.
App store revenue (in-app purchases, subscriptions, ads, paid downloads)
Off-store revenue (trading fees, commissions, web subscriptions, ad sales, enterprise)
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Auto-generated from this app's real revenue ($47.9K/month · $575.3K/year), monetization model, rating signals and category. Every line is calibrated to this app, not generic advice.
40/100
Opportunity
65/100
Cloneability
$2
Revenue / install
✓ Features to copy
- subscription paywall (~$19.75/mo) - proven monetization
- in-app purchase tier ladder for upsells
⚡ Improve / fix
- ★ rating only 3.6 - read /intelligence/reviews/android/consumer-reports/ to mine the top complaints
- subscription is $19.75/mo - undercut by 30-50% to win price-sensitive users
🛠 MVP scope
- core feature loop
- subscription gating
- free-tier limits
- trial period
- analytics
💰 Pricing recommendation
Consumer Reports charges ~$19.75/mo. Competitive entry: $11.85/mo or annual at $71/year (50% off annual is the standard hook).
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📺 TikTok / ad hook angles
- "I tried Consumer Reports for 30 days - here's what I'd do differently"
- "Why Consumer Reports costs $19.75/mo when ours costs $11.85"
- "The shopping app Consumer Reports won't tell you these 3 things"
Monetization
Subscription (~$19.75/mo)Revenue mix (estimated)
- Subscriptions ~72%
- One-time IAP ~22%
- Ads ~6%
Paying users (est.)
927K installs · 12.6% active · 1.5% pay
In-App Purchases
- Sub Subscription tier $10.00/month
- Sub Subscription tier $39.00/month
Subscription tiers parsed from store description.
App Details
Pulled from Google Play- Current Version
- 5.13.1-945
- Released
- Jun 24, 2014
- Last Updated
- Apr 30, 2026
- Required OS
- 9
- Content Rating
- Everyone
- Category
- Shopping
- Price
- Free
- Currency
- USD
- Developer
- Consumer Reports, Inc.
What's new in v5.13.1-945
• New: Users can now filter and sort products and cars directly within AskCR chats.
Fun Numbers - share these
$0
every second
$1
every minute
$67
every hour
$1.6K
every day
- ☕ Buys 320 $5 coffees every day
- 👨💻 Pays for 3 senior engineer salaries per year
- 🚗 Earns enough for 14 Tesla Model 3s annually
- ⏱️ Earns the price of a coffee in 270 seconds
12-Month Revenue Trajectory
Modeled from grossing rank, app score, and update cadence. Hover any point to see the value. Real growth depends on retention, marketing, and seasonality.
Total Installs
927K
Reported: 500,000+
Active Users (MAU est.)
117K
12.6% of installs · SHOPPING category benchmark · cumulative-install decay × 0.75
Rating
3.58 ★
2K reviews
Monetization
Subscription (~$19.75/mo)
IAP: $10.00 - $39.00 per item
Rating Distribution
5★
2K
4★
496
3★
457
2★
285
1★
1K
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Frequently Asked About Consumer Reports
How much money does Consumer Reports make on Google Play? ⌄
Consumer Reports has an estimated Play Store revenue of $47.9K per month (~$575.3K per year, $1.6K per day) with a likely range of $26.4K to $69.5K. This sums earnings from in-app purchases, subscription revenue, ad monetization and any paid downloads on Google Play - directional estimates from public signals only.
How many Play Store downloads does Consumer Reports get? ⌄
Google Play publishes install ranges (e.g. 1M+, 10M+, 100M+). Consumer Reports reports 500,000+ installs. Rev.now combines that range with ratings, reviews, grossing rank and category trends to estimate roughly 927K total downloads and 117K monthly active users on Android.
Is Consumer Reports a top grossing Android app and what is its Play Store rank? ⌄
Consumer Reports is analyzed using Google Play grossing rank, category ranking, install range, ratings velocity, monetization model (subscription revenue, in-app purchases, paid downloads) and ad-revenue signals. Compare it to other highest-grossing Android apps on the Play Store leaderboard.
How is Consumer Reports Play Store revenue estimated? ⌄
Rev.now estimates Consumer Reports Play Store revenue from public app data: Google Play download ranges, monthly active users (MAU), Android paying-user conversion, scraped subscription pricing, in-app purchase ranges ($10.00 - $39.00 per item), ad monetization (eCPM × impressions × MAU) and the Shopping category ARPU benchmark - net of Google's 15-30% Play Store cut.
What in-app purchases and subscriptions does Consumer Reports offer on Android? ⌄
Consumer Reports offers in-app purchases ($10.00 - $39.00 per item) on Google Play, which usually means subscription tiers (weekly, monthly, annual), virtual currency or one-time unlocks. Subscription revenue and IAP earnings are usually the biggest contributors to monthly Play Store revenue.
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