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Metal detecting apps

  1. Market

    Installs
    65.1K

    Across 5 of 19 apps we could match.

    • Detector Maps: 54,592 installs
    • Metal Detecting Hub: 6,027 installs
    • LuckyFind: 3,543 installs
    • Metal Detector & Stud Finder +: 616 installs
    • Ground Score Metal Detecting: 326 installs
    • 84% leader share. Detector Maps, by Google Play installs, across the 5 of 19 apps we could match
    • #76 Navigation rank. Detector Maps, top grossing, the best rank any app here holds
    • $4.49 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 6 apps that list one. 6 of 6 charge.
    • 7 of 19 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-26

  2. Competition

    1. Metal Detector and Spy CameraJul 202411k ratings$9.99 a year
    2. Metal Detector EMF26 Sep2k ratings$1.99
    3. Metal Detector & Stud Finder +Nov 2022364 ratings$14.99 a year
    4. Metal&Gold Detector ScannerMay 2025362 ratings$3.99 to $49.99
    5. Detector Maps12 Oct264 ratings$59.99 to $99.99 a year
    6. Metal&Gold Detector24 Sep217 ratings$9.99 to $49.99
    7. LuckyFind29 Sep55 ratings
    8. Hand Held Metal DetectorDec 202452 ratings
    9. MD CompanionDec 202012 ratings
    10. Dtecto13 Oct10 ratings
    11. Metal Detector | Stud Finder21 Oct6 ratings
    12. Ground Score Metal Detecting18 Feb5 ratings
    13. Aureal14 Sep1 ratings
    14. Relic Hunter18 Sep0 ratings
    15. Metal Detector Map Tracker25 May0 ratings
    16. Metal Detector7 Oct0 ratings
    17. Metal Detecting Hub17 Sep0 ratings
    18. DetectLogPro9 Oct0 ratings
    19. Metal Detecting12 Jun0 ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 236 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Billing−13.2%9 of 10 apps

    We have not counted the wishes for this market yet.

  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries

    Checked. Nothing to show.

    Google suggests no wishes for this term.

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 25 September 2026.

  6. Your test

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Is there a market for a new metal detecting app?

19 apps compete here. They hold 65,104 installs on Google Play, counted across the 5 we could match. We hold 236 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do metal detecting apps charge?

6 of the 6 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $4.49 or less. 13 more apps have no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want a metal detecting app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing Metal detecting apps completes to “ground score metal detecting” in 29 of them. Then “aureal - metal detecting” in 27, “diglog - metal detecting diary” in 26. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures across subscription apps

Their report has no category matching Metal detecting apps apps, so only all-category figures are shown. A near-match would be a guess.

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 15,762 apps on the store, since no one group holds most of these apps. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated.