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Class action settlement finder app (helps users find settlements they qualify for and claim them): US store proven at about $1M/year in revenue but crowded; Canada and Australia unverified.
Narrowing Inspiration · a playbook verified elsewhere, but the home market is already saturated First spotted 2026-11-02 · last updated 2026-11-03
- Status
- Narrowing (US); Canada and Australia unverified
- Why this is written up
- This business is real in the US market (annual profit in the $800k range), but there are already 9+ competitors and the leaders are still selling. New entrants can't get a foothold in the US. Canada and Australia have class action systems, and there are only 2–3 competitors there with a few hundred ratings each, so they may be open. But whether the market size and settlement data sources are public hasn't been verified.
- Confidence
- Medium (high confidence that the US is saturated; low confidence on the open Canada and Australia markets). What would overturn this: Canada and Australia have too few public settlements to support ongoing content, or Payout or Collect has already localized for Canada and Australia.
Evidence
Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links.
For-sale listings2 evidence items
- For-sale listings (seller-reported, 2026-11-01 on the market): Acquire q27ozn42ns (US, founded 15 months ago, TTM revenue $1.1M, profit $805k, P&L uploaded, asking $2.8M, 3.5× profit); Flippa 13585912 (US, 18 months old, annual revenue $1.24M, profit $881k, asking $2.65M, no data source connected). The descriptions are almost identical, so it's likely the same app listed in two places.
- For-sale listings (11-02): Acquire q27ozn42ns last month revenue $106,800, TTM profit $804,800, asking $2.8M; Flippa 13585912 monthly revenue $103,000, asking $2.65M (down 10% from $2.95M). Both are still listed, no new changes since 11-02. The For-sale listings §4.6 puts this in "looks hot but not recommended to follow": legal compliance and funding advances are not something a small team can handle.
App Store1 evidence items · 2 products with curves
Payout: Claim Class Actions Payout LLC
App Store · launched 2025-08-02 · US store rating 11,668 · charted in 11-08 of 1 stores
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.
Collect - Settlement Finder Ferrix Labs Inc.
App Store · launched 2025-09-30 · US store rating 5,678 · charted in 11-08 of 3 stores
US storeAustraliaCanada
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.
- App Store (US storefront, 11-02, Finance category Top Grossing chart): Payout: Claim Class Actions (launched 6748968935,2025-08, 11,629 ratings, 4.68★) at #45; Collect - Settlement Finder (6752740187,5,604 ratings) at #36; ClaimHunt (3,140) at #40; MoneyPilot (1,817) at #50; GetPaid at #102; Rightfully at #104; plus newer clones like ClaimNow, TapClaim, and Claim (the last two from Turkish developers). Based on launch months, Payout (launched 2025-08, now 15 months old) looks most like the Acquire listing, but this is an inference.
Other sources (official sites, press releases, web pages) 2 pieces of evidence
- How it makes money (Payout listing): Premium subscription, plus affiliate commissions from recommending credit cards and bank accounts, plus weekly sweepstakes to drive signups. It does not file claims on the user's behalf.
- Outside the US: Collect is #13 on Australia's Finance Top Grossing chart (154 ratings) and #32 in Canada (381 ratings); ClaimHunt is #62 in Canada and #103 in Australia. No competitor has charted in the UK.
Indie product revenue (TrustMRR)1 evidence · 2 products with curves
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $48 (+23%) · MRR $50 · 17 subscriptions
2026-02 → 2026-11 (10 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
ClaimWell claimwell.app
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $41 (+200%) · MRR $8 · 2 subscriptions
2026-10 → 2026-11 (2 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
- Indie: small competitors are all near zero revenue (PayClaim $48, ClaimWell $5, ClassyAction MRR $488).
Meta Ad Library1 evidence items
- Meta Ad Library: this direction isn't on our keyword list, so no ad spend showing here doesn't mean no one is buying ads.
Google Play2 evidence items · 6 products with curves
Collect - Settlement Finder Ferrix Labs
Google Play · Launched 2026-01-19 · 11-07 installs 211,805
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
MoneyPilot : Class Action Bloom Processing
Google Play · Launched 2026-01-19 · 11-07 installs 99,608
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
ClaimHunt: Class Action Claims Push apps
Google Play · Launched 2026-06-29 · 11-07 installs 104,993
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
Payout: Claim Class Actions PAYOUT LLC
Google Play · Launched 2025-08-03 · 11-07 installs 168,039
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
Settle: Class Actions Nikanomi
Google Play · Launched 2025-11-22 · 11-07 installs 93,883
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
ClaimHub: Class Action Tracker GAMEPEAK LIMITED
Google Play · Launched 2026-03-03 · 11-06 installs 78,704
Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-06 (8 days, 8 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-06 (8 days, 8 observations)
- Google Play (us, 11-02, Finance top grossing, 200 real charts): The class action app is not the two the report named. At least 7 are charting at once: Collect com.ferrixlabs.collect #22 (207,258 installs, 17,433 rating), MoneyPilot com.moneypilot.bloom #26 (97,182 installs), ClaimHunt com.claimhunt.app #29 (11-01 #30; 101,388 installs, 5,093 rating), Payout com.payout.app #39 (167,075 installs, 11,410 rating, close to iOS's 11,629), TapClaim app.tapclaim #56 (11-01 #58; 11,381 installs, Turkish company EVERCODE), Settle: Class Actions com.compensation.claim #61 (90,917 installs), ClaimHub com.gamepeakltd.payme 11-01 #72 (78,302 installs).
- Google Play (report 11-01): The claim in Google Play New Opportunities §1.5 and Stringers §3.6 that "only two on Play, Payout has no Android version, Play is still empty" only counted apps launched in the last 180 days (ClaimHunt 6-29, TapClaim 7-13). Today's check doesn't hold: Payout, Collect and MoneyPilot all have Android versions and are charting.
Already being built (11-02 backfill)
Google Play also has Settle: Class Actions (Nikanomi) and ClaimHub: Class Action Tracker (GAMEPEAK LIMITED). Payout, Collect, MoneyPilot, ClaimHunt and TapClaim are all live on both platforms.
The hardest step
Settlement data source. In the US, public settlement administrator sites can be aggregated; for Canada and Australia you'd have to compile the data yourself. There's also a compliance risk: it must not look like a law firm or a claims agent.
Who it's for
Not recommended for the US store. Canada and Australia only suit indie devs willing to build the data sources by hand first; monetization comes from subscriptions plus finance affiliates.
Should every product builder know this?
No.
Change log
2026-11-03
Flippa: 13585912 cut its price by 10% (asking still $2.65M); the Acquire listing is unchanged. US App Store Finance top grossing: Payout 45→50, Collect 36→30.
2026-11-02
Backfill (from Google Play New Opportunities §1.5, Stringers §3.6, For-sale listings §4.6): at least 7 class action apps are on the US Play Finance top grossing chart, so the report's "only two on Play" doesn't hold. ClaimHunt us Finance top grossing #30→#29, TapClaim #58→#56. This strengthens this entry's "US is crowded" call and matches the status "narrowing." The for-sale report explicitly advises against following.
2026-11-02
First recorded.
Original: Scanner opportunity library #014 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.