65
Quality Score
Solid
Lilo: Study Timer & Challenges
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Lilo: Study Timer & Challenges is an iOS app from Pawel Gladysz in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.7★ across 3,836 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Productivity 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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Snapshots tracked
0
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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
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 |
| 📦Asset bundle (89 MB) | +$15K |
| ⚙Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$6K |
| ⚙0.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$4K |
Total estimate$75K
👥 Estimated audience size
275K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
82K
Daily active
37K
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
| 📲Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 🔁Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU45% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 60%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
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 | 89 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Productivity |
| 📦Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-04-26 · 29 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
| 📅29 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 39/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
7.0
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
2.2
Operational Safety
7.7
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.71★ across 3,836 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.88 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $90K-$160K.
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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (3,836 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| New app (8 months old)METRIC | −$700 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 →💾 89 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v1.0.46🔄 updated 4w ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2025 (0y old)
📝 About this app
Stay focused. Compete with friends. Make studying fun.
Lilo is a social study timer that transforms your study time into a motivating challenge. Instead of studying alone and losing focus, you can now set timers, compete with friends, climb leaderboards, and track your progress in a way that makes learning feel engaging and rewarding.
FOCUS TIMER
- Start a focus timer to stay consistent and avoid distractions.
- Use Lilo for deep study sessions, daily homework, or exam preparation.
- Build habits that last and turn focus into a routine.
CHALLENGES WITH FRIENDS… View full description on the official store →
Lilo is a social study timer that transforms your study time into a motivating challenge. Instead of studying alone and losing focus, you can now set timers, compete with friends, climb leaderboards, and track your progress in a way that makes learning feel engaging and rewarding.
FOCUS TIMER
- Start a focus timer to stay consistent and avoid distractions.
- Use Lilo for deep study sessions, daily homework, or exam preparation.
- Build habits that last and turn focus into a routine.
CHALLENGES WITH FRIENDS… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.0.46
Turn study time into a fun challenge with friends!
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
7 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.71 (improved 0.71★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 4.00 (dropped 0.70★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.27 → 4.70 (improved 0.43★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-11
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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Voice of Customer
Based on 46 reviews across 5 markets● 44% positive · ● 35% neutral · ● 22% negative · Rating drift: -0.88★ (declining — recent 50: 3.83★ vs lifetime: 4.71★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.93
🇬🇧 GB
+0.53
🇺🇸 US
+0.22
🇫🇷 FR
+0.13
🇩🇪 DE
+0.05
Top praise themes
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Top complaint themes
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.70722★ | 3,921 | 4.70722★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.6272★ | 397 | 4.6272★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.69372★ | 2,785 | 4.69372★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.67841★ | 1,107 | 4.67841★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.77778★ | 18 | 4.77778★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.85629★ | 167 | 4.85629★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.72825★ | 92 | 4.72825★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.89655★ | 29 | 4.89655★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.74545★ | 55 | 4.74545★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Lilo: Study Timer & Challenges
- Developer
- Pawel Gladysz
- Bundle ID
- com.padoski.Lilo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Sign in
- Description
- Access Google Drive with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).
- 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
- $86/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- 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.
📈Ratings growth3,836 ratings+631% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (12 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (9 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.
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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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Lilo: Study Timer & Challenges: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 3,836 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Lilo make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Lilo earns approximately $86/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 Lilo profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $75K and monthly revenue $86, Lilo looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Lilo have?▴
Estimated audience: ~275K lifetime downloads, ~82K monthly active users, and ~37K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Lilo?▴
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What is Lilo built with?▴
Our heuristic places Lilo on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Lilo still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 29 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was Lilo last updated?▴
Lilo last shipped a new version on 2026-04-26 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Lilo?▴
Lilo is published by Pawel Gladysz 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 Lilo's BU Score?▴
Lilo has a BU Score of 65/100 (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.