Which apps are selling on Acquire.com now?

Is Acquire.com still mostly a SaaS marketplace?

Acquire.com is broader than SaaS today, but software still sits at the center of what buyers are actually acquiring.

Acquire.com now accepts ecommerce businesses, agencies, content sites, newsletters, mobile apps, marketplaces and other online businesses. Its latest marketplace update says more than 2,200 businesses are listed, with more than half a million registered buyers and over $1 billion in combined seller revenue represented on the platform.

Completed deals still lean heavily toward software. Acquire.com’s latest transaction report tracked 289 confirmed acquisitions across SaaS and other online businesses from late 2023 through 2025. SaaS deals appear across the whole price range, from a few thousand dollars to transactions above $10 million, and they make up a large share of the observations throughout the period.

So when people ask which apps are selling on Acquire.com now, SaaS remains the best place to start. The marketplace has diversified, while software continues to generate deals at almost every size.

What kinds of apps are actually for sale on Acquire.com today?

The current Acquire.com marketplace is packed with B2B SaaS, AI software, Shopify apps and very small profitable tools, with asking prices ranging from a few thousand dollars to several million.

We checked live public listings again rather than relying on older acquisition stories. The range is huge. A Shopify wholesale-pricing app currently reports $17,100 in trailing revenue and $16,600 in profit with a $57,000 asking price. An AI customer-support platform reports $172,000 of trailing revenue and $160,900 of profit while asking $130,000. An AI UGC platform for brands reports $864,300 of revenue, $208,200 of profit and a $900,000 asking price.

At the other extreme, Acquire.com currently has AI products with almost no commercial traction. One pair of AI real-estate SaaS products reports just $600 of trailing revenue and asks $13,500, with the seller essentially pricing the finished technology rather than its cash flow. Another AI startup intelligence tool reports only $74 of revenue and asks $4,000.

That is a pretty wide spread. Buyers can shop for proven cash-flowing companies, early micro-SaaS projects, complete codebases or businesses approaching seven figures in revenue on the same marketplace.

Current Acquire.com listing	TTM revenue	TTM profit	Asking price
Shopify B2B wholesale app	$17.1k	$16.6k	$57k
AI customer-support SaaS	$172k	$160.9k	$130k
AI-agent reseller platform	$153.3k	$78.8k	$399k
AI UGC platform	$864.3k	$208.2k	$900k
Shopify returns app	$442.8k	$170.5k	$1M

Are AI apps taking over Acquire.com now?

AI apps are growing much faster on Acquire.com, although they still represent a minority of businesses entering the marketplace.

Acquire.com’s latest State of the Deal analysis gives us a useful before-and-after comparison. AI companies now make up 10.5% of submissions, compared with 4.6% over the previous 12-month period. Their share has therefore more than doubled.

The live marketplace makes that growth easy to see. We currently find AI recruiting software, AI customer-support systems, agent platforms, document tools, UGC generators, ecommerce software and small AI code products. Some are already healthy businesses. One AI-agent resale platform has 892 paying subscribers and says it generates about $37,000 in monthly recurring revenue. The AI UGC platform mentioned above has produced more than $864,000 over the trailing 12 months.

Completed acquisitions are appearing too. AIContenfy was sold after reaching roughly $1 million in ARR. Wisdomic AI attracted multiple interested buyers after growing from an academic tool into a small commercial SaaS business.

The shift is real. AI has moved from a small edge category on Acquire.com to one of the marketplace’s most visible sources of new inventory. A 10.5% submission share still leaves roughly nine out of ten new submissions outside that category, though, so calling Acquire.com an AI acquisition marketplace would be a stretch.

Does adding AI actually make an app easier to sell on Acquire.com?

AI can get an app noticed on Acquire.com, but buyers still seem far more interested in revenue, profit and retention than in the AI label itself.

Current listings make the contrast unusually clear. An AI customer-support SaaS reporting $172,000 of trailing revenue and $160,900 of profit is asking $130,000. An AI recruiting platform with $76,900 of trailing revenue and $35,700 of profit asks $75,000. An AI-agent reseller with $153,300 of trailing revenue and $78,800 of profit asks $399,000.

Then we find AI products whose valuation depends mainly on the work already put into the software. The two-product PropTech bundle with $600 of revenue asks $13,500, equivalent to 22.5 times its tiny trailing revenue. The seller explicitly presents the codebases, integrations and development shortcut as the reason for the price.

Acquire.com’s latest buyer analysis points the same way from a much larger dataset: current buyers are putting more weight on profitability and predictable cash flow. AI helps with attention. It does not turn a weak little business into a strong acquisition target by itself.

Are tiny micro-SaaS apps still getting acquired?

Yes. Tiny micro-SaaS apps are still very sellable on Acquire.com, and smaller businesses account for a surprisingly large part of its completed-deal activity.

Acquire.com studied 185 completed transactions for its latest time-to-sale analysis. The biggest clusters of sales occurred around 60 and 90 days, and a large share came from pre-revenue businesses or startups below $25,000 in trailing revenue. Average time on market across the sample was 81 days.

Individual exits can move much faster. Helploom, a bootstrapped customer-support SaaS run by a solo founder, sold four days after listing. Acquire.com has also documented Thomas Ulman buying, improving and reselling two simple software products, while operator Stuart Faught has described completing 18 acquisitions through the marketplace.

That activity helps explain why today’s live inventory contains so many businesses in the $10,000-$100,000 range. There is a real buyer base for small software. The product needs to be understandable, transferable and priced low enough for an individual operator to buy it without turning the transaction into institutional M&A.

Are Shopify apps selling particularly well on Acquire.com?

Shopify apps currently form one of the clearest groups of acquisition-ready software on Acquire.com because buyers get customers, distribution and billing infrastructure along with the code.

We found a B2B wholesale Shopify app asking $57,000 on $17,100 of trailing revenue and $16,600 of profit. A much larger returns-and-exchanges app has more than 500 merchants, $442,800 of trailing revenue and $170,500 of profit, with a $1 million asking price.

Acquire.com has also documented completed Shopify-related exits. GoRecover built a business around recovering abandoned carts through WhatsApp and was eventually acquired. Editify began as a Shopify-app project, gained hundreds of users and later sold as well.

Shopify gives these businesses an advantage that a random standalone app often has to build from scratch. The buyer inherits an App Store presence, merchant reviews, an existing billing route and a defined customer pool. That makes the commercial side of the acquisition much easier to read.

Which app niches keep showing up in real Acquire.com exits?

The apps that keep selling on Acquire.com solve narrow business problems: customer support, ecommerce conversion, reporting, lead generation, automation and specialized productivity.

Helploom handled customer support. GoRecover recovered Shopify carts through WhatsApp. Genius Sheets automated financial reporting around tools such as QuickBooks and Excel. LeadGen App sold form-building software. Wisdomic AI focused on academic work. Growth-X built LinkedIn automation and lead-generation software.

Those products have very little in common technologically. Their commercial shape is much more consistent. We can identify who uses them, why users pay and which workflow would break if the software disappeared.

That pattern also appears in current inventory. The Shopify wholesale app manages B2B merchant pricing. The recruiting SaaS connects candidate sourcing with customer acquisition. The returns app handles one painful post-purchase workflow. AI support products automate repetitive customer questions.

The narrower products often look less impressive than broad platforms, but they give buyers something valuable: a business they can understand quickly.

Are B2B apps easier to sell than consumer apps on Acquire.com?

B2B and prosumer software clearly dominate the strongest examples we can see on Acquire.com today, even though the platform does not publish a clean B2B-versus-consumer sell-through rate.

Current listings repeatedly target merchants, sales teams, recruiters, publishers, ecommerce operators and customer-support teams. Recent acquisition stories show the same mix through financial-reporting software, lead-generation tools, Shopify apps and customer-support SaaS.

Consumer software can still find a buyer. Knock is a good example. The Mac utility turned the accelerometer inside newer MacBooks into programmable physical controls, found paying users and eventually attracted several potential buyers through Acquire.com before being sold.

B2B software simply gives an acquirer more numbers to work with. Subscription revenue, business customers, churn, account histories and measurable customer value make future cash flow easier to estimate. Due diligence is usually cleaner, and there is less guesswork about what remains after the founder leaves.

How important is profitability when selling an app on Acquire.com now?

Profitability is one of the strongest predictors of buyer interest on Acquire.com right now, and the gap between weak-margin and healthy-margin SaaS is large.

Acquire.com’s latest multiples study covered 950 profitable SaaS listings. Their average profit margin rose from 67% in 2023 to 71% in 2024 and stayed at 71% in 2025. These are exceptionally lean businesses compared with traditional companies.

More importantly, buyers behaved differently as margins improved. In a sample of 854 listings, businesses below 20% margin drew roughly 17 interested buyers on average. Listings between 21% and 40% margin attracted about 24. The 41%-60% group came close to 28.

A second dataset covering 858 listings measured actual offers rather than initial interest. Roughly 11%-16% of businesses in the lowest margin bands received offers, while several margin bands between 30% and 90% produced offer rates around 26%-38%.

There are exceptions, especially when a fast-growing business has strategic value. But for the small SaaS companies that dominate Acquire.com, healthy cash flow currently gives buyers a much easier reason to say yes.

SaaS profit margin	Approx. interested buyers per listing
Under 20%	~17
21%-40%	~24
41%-60%	~28
61%-80%	~24

Does fast growth beat profit when buyers choose apps on Acquire.com?

Usually no. Fast growth can lift the price of a good Acquire.com business, but current buyers appear reluctant to pay up for growth when the economics underneath it are weak.

Acquire.com says in its latest market update that a smaller profitable business can attract more buyer interest than a larger company around breakeven. We can see why in live listings.

An AI customer-service business currently shows a 41% trailing revenue decline and a $12,800 trailing loss. Despite operating in one of today’s fashionable categories, its asking price is only $90,000 on $88,900 of trailing revenue.

Meanwhile, an ecommerce SEO and AI software business currently reports $36,100 of trailing revenue, $34,400 of profit and 200% annual growth. Its $149,800 asking price works out at around 4.4 times profit. Another AI UGC business combines 67% growth with $208,200 of trailing profit and asks $900,000.

The strongest listings increasingly offer both. Growth gives the buyer upside; profit means the buyer does not have to keep funding that upside after the acquisition.

What multiple are SaaS apps actually selling for on Acquire.com?

Around four times annual profit remains the best simple benchmark for profitable SaaS sales on Acquire.com today.

Acquire.com’s latest confirmed-deal report puts the median SaaS net-income multiple at 3.9x for 2025. It was also 3.9x in 2024, after 4.3x in 2023. The 2025 figure covers 129 confirmed SaaS deals, so we are looking at a market pattern rather than one or two public success stories.

The broader distribution is wide. Small companies can close below that level, while businesses with strong growth, retention, size or strategic value can sell much higher. Acquire.com currently describes roughly 3-5x profit and 1-3x revenue as normal working ranges for SaaS.

This is one of the clearest changes in how we should think about apps for sale on Acquire.com. Buyers are generally valuing a $100,000-profit SaaS from its earnings first. Venture-style stories about huge future markets matter far less once a founder is asking somebody to wire real money for the whole company.

Can a good app still fail to sell because the asking price is too high?

Absolutely. On Acquire.com, pricing can change buyer interest more dramatically than almost any product category or technology trend.

Acquire.com compared asking prices with its own fair-market-value estimate across marketplace listings. Its latest analysis found serious buyer interest of only about 2% when a seller priced roughly 10% above fair value. At around 5% above, interest rose to roughly 30%.

Listings around Acquire.com’s fair-value estimate reached about 60% serious buyer interest. Pricing roughly 5% below brought the figure to around 80%, while listings approximately 10% below reached 92%.

The relationship is striking because it dwarfs many of the differences founders spend months trying to create elsewhere. A seller can have SaaS revenue, AI features and strong margins, then wipe out a large part of the buyer pool with one aggressive asking price.

We also see big differences in today’s listings. The profitable AI customer-support platform mentioned earlier asks only 0.8 times trailing profit. The Shopify returns app asks 5.9 times profit. The AI-agent reseller asks 5.1 times profit even though the listing acknowledges monthly churn of 25%-30%. Those businesses may all attract buyers, but the amount of explaining required at due diligence will be very different.

Asking price vs. Acquire.com fair value	Serious buyer interest
About 10% above	~2%
About 5% above	~30%
Around fair value	~60%
About 5% below	~80%
About 10% below	~92%

Do recurring-revenue apps have a real advantage on Acquire.com?

Yes. Recurring revenue makes an Acquire.com app easier to value because buyers can see what income is likely to survive the ownership change.

Acquire.com’s current buyer guidance repeatedly highlights predictable MRR or ARR, retention and clean revenue history. Current listings show sellers leaning heavily on exactly those numbers.

The AI-agent reseller platform reports 892 paying subscribers and about $37,000 of current MRR. The Shopify returns business reports roughly $437,000 in ARR from more than 500 merchants. Other larger SaaS listings explicitly advertise the percentage of revenue that recurs or their net revenue retention.

There are successful exceptions. Knock sold paid licenses rather than depending on a classic SaaS subscription, and ecommerce businesses also change hands on the platform. But recurring revenue gives the buyer a much cleaner starting point: customers are already scheduled to pay again next month.

Are low-maintenance solo-founder apps especially attractive to Acquire.com buyers?

Yes, particularly at the smaller end of Acquire.com, where buyers often want a business they can take over without immediately building a team.

This trait appears constantly in both live listings and past exits. Current sellers promote businesses with no employees, very high margins and limited weekly operating time. The AI-agent reseller platform, for example, says it has no employees. The Shopify wholesale app produces nearly all of its $17,100 trailing revenue as profit. Another current AI boilerplate business reports $24,900 of trailing revenue and $24,200 of profit.

Recent exits such as Helploom show the same model from the seller side: a focused, bootstrapped product operated by one founder can still become an acquisition target.

Buyers will obviously test those claims. A supposedly passive SaaS becomes less appealing very quickly if all the engineering knowledge lives in the founder’s head or customer support secretly consumes 30 hours a week. When the low-maintenance claim survives due diligence, though, the economics are compelling: the buyer gets cash flow without inheriting a large payroll.

How long does it actually take to sell an app on Acquire.com?

A good Acquire.com app usually needs weeks or a few months to sell; instant exits happen, but they are exceptional.

Acquire.com’s latest study of 185 completed businesses found an average of 81 days on the market. The distribution is concentrated around 60 and 90 days, and deal volume falls sharply as listings move beyond roughly four months. A separate part of the latest report gives a 90-day median for its confirmed 2025 transaction sample.

Small deals make up much of the faster-moving activity. Businesses below $25,000 in trailing revenue and pre-revenue assets account for a large share of transactions closing inside 30-90 days. Bigger companies naturally involve more due diligence, financing and negotiation.

Helploom’s four-day acquisition shows what can happen when product, price and buyer line up almost immediately. Four days is an outlier. Roughly two to three months is a far more useful expectation for an app that is genuinely ready to sell.

So which apps are selling on Acquire.com now?

Profitable B2B SaaS, Shopify apps, AI tools with real revenue, narrow workflow software and small transferable micro-SaaS businesses are the clearest winners on Acquire.com right now.

The evidence points in the same direction from several angles. SaaS remains heavily represented in confirmed acquisitions. AI submissions have more than doubled their share to 10.5%, so AI is clearly changing the marketplace, but buyers are still rewarding the same financial qualities underneath it. Shopify apps repeatedly appear among current profitable listings and completed exits. Tiny software businesses continue to transact alongside companies worth millions.

The economics are even clearer. As seen above, Acquire.com’s confirmed SaaS median stayed at 3.9 times profit across two consecutive years. Profitable SaaS listings averaged 71% margins in the latest annual dataset. Higher-margin businesses drew materially more buyer attention, while aggressive pricing caused serious buyer interest to collapse.

Buyers seem happiest when they can open the numbers and understand the business quickly: recurring customers, obvious use case, real profit, manageable churn, little dependence on the founder and a price tied to what the company already earns.

AI can strengthen that package. Shopify distribution can strengthen it. Rapid growth can strengthen it. None of those features reliably rescues an app that has weak economics or an unrealistic price.

The most sellable app on Acquire.com today is much closer to a small, efficient cash-flowing business than to a speculative startup.