Scary Chat Stories - Addicted
75
Quality Score
Strong
Scary Chat Stories - Addicted
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Scary Chat Stories - Addicted is an Android app from Addicted - Scary Text Stories, Get Hooked on chats in the Books & Reference category, currently rated 4.6★ across 58,798 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 75: Strong (healthy traction). For a Books & Reference app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$2.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.9K – $6.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.7K – $15.6K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$75K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $55K – $100K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.9y at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ Books & Reference complexity ×0.95 | $-2525 |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$26K |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$35K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $45K · 16× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Books & Reference category multiple | -2% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
645K
Daily active
125K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Books & Reference engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Books & Reference D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷 Category context | Books & Reference |
| 📦 Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.8K – $4.3K
12 months
$1.9K – $6.8K
24 months
$1.7K – $15.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Product Quality
9.3
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.0
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $858 - $5364/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.63★ across 58,798 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $38K-$68K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (58,798 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Scary Chat Stories - Addicted
- Developer
- Addicted - Scary Text Stories, Get Hooked on chats
- Bundle ID
- com.addictedapp.addicted
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Books & Reference
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Addicted — scary chat stories two ways:
Addicted lets you enjoy horror chat fiction exactly how you like:
- Binge read short, scary chat stories free with no waiting screens.
- Switch to interactive mode and type your own replies while an AI acts as every other character, turning the conversation into a living interactive story.
What you can do
- Read continuous chat threads that feel like someone else’s phone, complete with photos.
- Guide the plot: type any line or tap a quick reply and watch the AI adapt in real time.… View full description on the official store →
Addicted lets you enjoy horror chat fiction exactly how you like:
- Binge read short, scary chat stories free with no waiting screens.
- Switch to interactive mode and type your own replies while an AI acts as every other character, turning the conversation into a living interactive story.
What you can do
- Read continuous chat threads that feel like someone else’s phone, complete with photos.
- Guide the plot: type any line or tap a quick reply and watch the AI adapt in real time.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Scary Chat Stories - Addicted: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 58,798 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Scary Chat Stories - Addicted make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Scary Chat Stories - Addicted earns approximately $2.1K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Scary Chat Stories - Addicted?▴
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Who makes Scary Chat Stories - Addicted?▴
Scary Chat Stories - Addicted is published by Addicted - Scary Text Stories, Get Hooked on chats on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Scary Chat Stories - Addicted's BU Score?▴
Scary Chat Stories - Addicted has a BU Score of 75/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.