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Buy AI SaaS · App business for sale

App business for sale: buy a verified mobile or web app company

An app business earns money from software people already use, which is why buying one beats building one when the numbers hold up. The category covers more than it sounds like: subscription mobile apps billed through the App Store or Google Play, web apps billed through Stripe, browser extensions, and apps that live inside a larger platform. What they share is a revenue stream you can inspect before you buy and a user base that took someone else years to build.

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Built for AI SaaS not a generic listing wall

The diligence differs by billing rail, and that is the part most first-time buyers get wrong. Store-billed apps report through App Store Connect and Google Play Console, so revenue reconciles against a payout ledger, but you are also underwriting store ranking, review health, platform fees and policy risk you do not control. Directly billed web apps give you the customer relationship and cleaner economics, but the numbers rest on the seller's own processor data and need reconciling to the bank. Buyouts lists AI and software businesses as anonymized deals with verified MRR, ARR, growth and churn, opens them only to capital-qualified buyers, and closes through escrow. Listings and metrics shown are illustrative product UI, and any valuation guidance here is educational rather than a guaranteed price.

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App business for sale: what you get

Revenue you can reconcile

Store payout ledgers and processor exports are checkable evidence, not screenshots. Verified MRR, ARR, growth and churn sit on the deal before you make contact.

Retention over downloads

Downloads are a vanity number. What you are buying is the cohort that still opens the app and still pays in month six, which is the metric worth underwriting.

Platform risk priced in

Store ranking, review health, platform fees and policy exposure are real risks on store-billed apps. Vetted listings let you weigh them before committing capital.

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Browse, diligence, and act on real AI SaaS deals

Every listing shows verified MRR, ARR, growth, churn, margin and stack. Filter the deck, open a deal to see the full metrics breakdown, and request access or list your own to vetted buyers.

  • Browse app businesses with verified recurring revenue
  • Reconcile revenue against store or processor payouts
  • Check retention, churn and active-user cohorts
  • Weigh App Store and Google Play platform risk
  • Confirm code, accounts and listings can transfer
  • Deal only with vetted, capital-qualified sellers
  • Close the transfer with escrow protection
AI SaaS Listing SAMPLE · APP BUSINESS FOR SALE
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$210K

3.8× ARR
MRR $42K +11% MoM 2.1% churn 86% margin
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ASKING $210K 3.8× ARR ESCROW AVAILABLE

Good questions

Questions about App business for sale

Small app businesses typically trade on a multiple of annual profit or annual recurring revenue. Subscription apps with low churn commonly price in the 3x to 5x ARR band, while ad-supported or one-time-purchase apps usually price lower because the revenue is less predictable. An app doing $5,000 MRR, about $60,000 ARR, at 3.5x would sit near $210,000. Growth, retention and how much the founder personally does move that number in both directions.
Find an app with revenue you can verify, reconcile the reported numbers against App Store Connect or Google Play Console payouts, review retention cohorts rather than downloads, then confirm the code, developer account, listing and any third-party services transfer to you. On a marketplace you self-source vetted listings and close through escrow, so the account handover and the payment settle together.
Check that revenue reconciles to a payout ledger, that retention holds beyond month three, and that the reviews do not show a recent quality collapse. Read the store listing history for policy strikes, confirm what share of installs comes from paid acquisition versus organic search, and verify the developer account and any contractor IP can actually be assigned to you.
It can be, when the revenue is recurring, retention is proven and you can run the app without the founder. The businesses that disappoint buyers are usually the ones dependent on a single paid acquisition channel, a ranking that has already peaked, or a founder who was the product. Treat platform concentration as the main risk and price it, rather than assuming last year's revenue repeats.
Buying source code gets you software with no customers, no revenue and no ranking, so you are paying for development time you avoided. Buying an app business gets you the code plus the live users, the revenue, the store listing and its history. The second costs far more and is worth far more, because the hard part of an app is distribution, not building it.
The main venues are software marketplaces such as Buyouts, Acquire.com and Flippa, plus brokerages for larger apps. Buyouts lists AI and app businesses as anonymized deals with verified MRR, ARR, growth and churn, so you can compare retention and revenue quality before you make contact rather than after signing an NDA.
Rarely with nothing down, but seller financing is common on small app deals: the seller takes part of the price as a note paid from the app's own cash flow over one to three years. Expect to fund a meaningful deposit, and expect the seller to want security. An SBA loan is the other route for a US buyer on a larger deal.
Subscription apps with proven retention commonly trade in the 3x to 5x annual profit or ARR band. Ad-supported and one-time-purchase apps price lower, often 1.5x to 3x, because the revenue is less predictable and does not renew. Concentration in a single acquisition channel or a single store ranking pulls the multiple down further.
They can be, but the underwriting has changed. Store discovery is more crowded, paid acquisition costs more, and an app whose growth came entirely from one ranking is a riskier asset than it was five years ago. The apps worth buying now are the ones with recurring billing, retention past month six, and demand that does not depend on a single channel.
Apps can be transferred between developer accounts on both platforms, subject to each store's conditions, and the app usually keeps its ratings and reviews. Both stores impose eligibility rules, so confirm the specific app qualifies before you close. Handle the transfer and the payment together through escrow so neither side is exposed.
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