60
Quality Score
Solid
Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms is an iOS app from Cephalopod Studio in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.4★ across 22 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities app, that means established niche player. 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.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$2.0K/mo
In 12 months
$1.8K – $6.3K
In 24 months
$1.6K – $14.7K
INDIE tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Snapshots tracked
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$45K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $35K – $60K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~3 months 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 |
| ⚙Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙0.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$2K |
Total estimate$45K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$175K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $225K · 13× MRR multiple
💸~3.9× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅0.5y proven track record | +2% |
| 🏷Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple13× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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
| 📦App bundle size | 9 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Utilities |
| 📦Compact iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-10 · 13 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅13 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, low defensibility moat
6 months
$1.7K – $4.0K
12 months
$1.8K – $6.3K
24 months
$1.6K – $14.7K
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.
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BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 40/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
3.5
Revenue Strength
3.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
2.1
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $805 - $5037/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.36★ across 22 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $36K-$64K. Portfolio play ($13K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| New app (5 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (22 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 9 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 26.0+🔖 v2.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2025 (0y old)
📝 About this app
Never miss another important moment. Cannot Ignore is a powerful alarm app designed specifically for those critical, one-time events that demand your full attention.
FULL-SCREEN ALARMS THAT DEMAND ATTENTION
When your alarm fires, Cannot Ignore takes over your entire screen - whether you're on the lock screen, home screen, or in another app. There's no ignoring it, no accidentally dismissing it. You'll see a full-screen alert with your alarm details and action buttons front and center.
CUSTOM SOUNDS FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT
Make your alarms unmissable with custom audio files.… View full description on the official store →
FULL-SCREEN ALARMS THAT DEMAND ATTENTION
When your alarm fires, Cannot Ignore takes over your entire screen - whether you're on the lock screen, home screen, or in another app. There's no ignoring it, no accidentally dismissing it. You'll see a full-screen alert with your alarm details and action buttons front and center.
CUSTOM SOUNDS FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT
Make your alarms unmissable with custom audio files.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.0
Free access to try out the app before you buy!
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-03
💲
Went free — dropped $0.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.82 → 4.20 (dropped 0.62★)
2026-03
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-02
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Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4★ | 4 | 4★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.36364★ | 22 | 4.36364★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms
- Developer
- Cephalopod Studio
- Bundle ID
- com.Cephalopod.CannotIgnore
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $13.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews12 latest · avg 4.5★ · 75.0% 5★ · 8.3% 1★
5★9 (75%)
4★2 (17%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★1 (8%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: recommend ×3 excellent ×1 great ×1 love ×1 best ×1Complaints: bug ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Amazingly Helpful
The alarms are full size and I can set different sounds which help a lot. I like that I can sync them in calendar and reminders.…
★★★★★ This app actually does what alarms are supposed to do.
Cannot Ignore is hands-down the most effective alarm app. The full-screen alarms are impossible to miss, which is exactly the point, and the design is refreshingly simple. No clutter, no overthinking—just fast, reliable execution.
The kill…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ STILL Poor Reminders Implentation
The app always stays active in the Dynamic Island.
Seems like another kludgy way to keep this app running.
I finally uninstalled.…
★★★★☆ Please Consider?
Adding Alarms that repeat Monthly and the option to schedule Extended Alarms to end or stop repeating on chosen date(s).…
📈Ratings growth22 ratings+2100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (5 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
💰Pricing History$0.99 → $0.00 (-100%)
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.
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Read the article-style breakdown for Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms earns approximately $13K/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.
Is Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $45K and monthly revenue $13K, Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 3 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms?▾
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What is Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms built with?▾
Our heuristic places Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (Swift / UIKit).
Is Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 13 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $175K (marketplace range $125K – $225K). Calculated as 13× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms last updated?▾
Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms last shipped a new version on 2026-05-10 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms?▾
Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms is published by Cephalopod Studio on the Apple App 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 Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms's BU Score?▾
Cannot Ignore - Super Alarms has a BU Score of 60/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.