14,271 iOS app opportunities
hiding in plain sight.
We analyzed 963,728 apps and 443,624 reviews to find paid, abandoned, and poorly-rated apps with proven demand and no good alternative.
- ✓ Revenue estimates + abandonment signals for every entry
- ✓ Top user complaints extracted — your ready-made feature spec
- ✓ Google Sheet + CSV export, use it in 10 minutes
Instant delivery · One-time purchase · No subscription
The app that everyone hates
(but nobody replaces)
This is what proven demand looks like.
There's an education app on the App Store right now. It has 131,000 reviews. Its average rating is 1.3 stars.
One hundred and thirty-one thousand people took time out of their day to say "this app is terrible."
And it's still on the store. Still being downloaded. Still making people miserable. Because there's no good alternative.
This isn't one app.
It's thousands of them.
We checked. Systematically.
We analyzed 963,728 apps across the entire iOS App Store, deep-analyzed 17,927 with full star breakdowns and review analysis, and found 14,271 startup opportunities.
331 poorly-rated apps are currently on Apple's Top Charts. 5,884 apps haven't been updated in 18+ months. 437 paid apps are still making money but completely abandoned by their developers.
People are waiting for you
to build the alternative.
The validation is already done — by angry customers.
Not hypothetically. Not "maybe there's demand." These users have already voted with their one-star reviews.
"This app crashes every single time I open it. Is anyone else making one of these?"
"I would PAY for a version of this that actually works."
"How is this the only option? Please someone make a better one."
Those aren't made up. That's the vibe of thousands of real reviews on apps in our dataset. The demand is deafening.
You have a terminal.
That's all you need.
Execution is cheaper than research now.
You don't need a team. You don't need funding. You don't need to spend six months on market research.
You need Claude Code, a weekend, and a target.
→ cat opportunities.csv | sort -t, -k6 -rn | head -1
# Schoology — Education — 1.3★ — 131K reviews
# Opportunity score: 1,793,527. Sheesh.
→ claude
> I want to build a better education app.
> The current one has 1.3 stars and 131K reviews.
> Beat it. SwiftUI. Make it beautiful.
# one weekend later
→ xcrun altool --upload-app ...
✓ Upload complete. Your app is live.
What's in the box 📦
Open the file. Pick your target. Start building in 10 minutes.
226 Top Picks
The best of the best. Paid, niche, fixable, with evidence — so you don't waste a weekend on the wrong app.
644 Paid App Opportunities
Apps charging $0.29–$299.99 that users are unhappy with. The revenue model is proven — so you know there's money before you write a line of code.
5,884 Abandoned Apps
Not updated in 18+ months. Developers moved on, users are stuck — so you can walk into an empty market.
Don't waste weekends on dead ends
Revenue estimates for every entry — so you can sort by money and skip the apps nobody would pay for.
Steal the spec from angry users
Top complaints extracted from reviews. Users are literally telling you what to build — for free.
Start building, not brainstorming
A startup pitch for every entry: what to build, why it'll work, why now. Open the file and go.
Find your lane in seconds
33 sectors across 4 tabs. Finance, Education, Health, Utilities — filter to what fits your skills.
Verify demand in 2 clicks
Direct App Store links for every entry. Read the 1-star reviews yourself and see the pain firsthand.
Works however you work
Google Sheet you can browse, filter, and export as CSV. Pipe it into a script or feed it straight to Claude Code.
Think about it this way: 963,728 apps analyzed. 443,624 reviews studied. Hundreds of hours of data engineering. You're getting all of it for $199 flat — less than what most people spend on a course they never finish. Less than a paid app earning 6 downloads a day for a single week.
What you'll do in the first 10 minutes ⏱️
- 1
Open the spreadsheet. Sort by opportunity score.
The highest-potential apps float to the top immediately.
- 2
Pick a sector that fits your skills.
33 sectors. Find the one where your experience gives you an edge.
- 3
Read the startup pitch we wrote for it.
Every entry has a pitch: what to build, why, and why now.
- 4
Click the App Store link. Read the 1-star reviews.
Users are writing your feature spec. For free. Right now.
- 5
Open your terminal and start building.
You have demand. You have a spec. You have Claude Code. Go.
Is this for you? 🪞
This is for you if...
- ✓ You can build apps but never know what to build
- ✓ You've shipped side projects before (or you're ready to ship your first)
- ✓ You want validated demand, not another shower thought
- ✓ You'd rather spend a weekend building than a month researching
- ✓ You have Claude Code and you're looking for a target
This is NOT for you if...
- ✗ You're looking for a get-rich-quick scheme
- ✗ You expect a finished app, not data to act on
- ✗ You're not willing to actually build and ship something
- ✗ You want hand-holding through the entire process
- ✗ You think 1.3 stars is "good enough" and won't bother
Yeah but... 🤔
Fair questions. Honest answers.
"$199 for a spreadsheet?" +
"How do I know the data is real?" +
"Can I really build a replacement app?" +
"Is it legal to build a competitor?" +
"What if someone else buys the list and builds the same thing?" +
Every week you wait,
someone else gets closer.
14,271 opportunities. 226 top picks. 5,884 abandoned apps with users who have nowhere else to go.
(All you need is a weekend and a terminal.)
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