Shift Worker
57
Quality Score
Solid
Shift Worker
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Shift Worker is an iOS app from Production Shed Pty Ltd in the News category, currently rated 3.7★ across 100 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 57: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$4.5K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.0K – $14.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$3.7K – $33.0K
per month
INDIE tierFREE
💡 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
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $400K · 12× MRR multiple
💸
~5.0× 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 |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
12× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
12K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.8K
Daily active
810
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$4.5K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$3.9K – $9.0K
12 months
$4.0K – $14.3K
24 months
$3.7K – $33.0K
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
Pre-traction · 37/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
3.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $11K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.72★ across 100 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 239d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.98 ★ (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 = $81K-$144K. Portfolio play ($25K/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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (100 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.
🆕 What's New · v1.6.6
- fixed email view for earlier IOS versions
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Shift Worker
- Developer
- Production Shed Pty Ltd
- Bundle ID
- com.markschumann.shiftworker
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Features
- 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
- $25.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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 growth100 ratings+-62% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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$0.00 → $1.99 (+0%)
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
Shift Worker is designed for people who need a quick and easy way to enter and view their shifts.
A traditional calendar is not always ideal for shift workers. Sometimes it's not easy to see your upcoming shift schedule very clearly, especially if your shifts don't fall into the traditional working week. Shift Worker solves this problem and turns the frustrating task of entry into a quick and easy experience.
Shift Worker allows you to create your own types of shifts by combining visually-attractive icons with letters/numbers so that they can be easily identified at a glance.… View full description on the official store →
A traditional calendar is not always ideal for shift workers. Sometimes it's not easy to see your upcoming shift schedule very clearly, especially if your shifts don't fall into the traditional working week. Shift Worker solves this problem and turns the frustrating task of entry into a quick and easy experience.
Shift Worker allows you to create your own types of shifts by combining visually-attractive icons with letters/numbers so that they can be easily identified at a glance.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 20 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v1.6.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 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 ↑ 2.70 → 3.72 (improved 1.02★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $1.99 price point
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.93 → 2.70 (dropped 1.23★)
2025-10
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.6.6
2011-11
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2010-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2010-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 491 reviews across 7 markets● 76% positive · ● 6% neutral · ● 19% negative · Rating drift: -0.98★ (declining — recent 50: 2.74★ vs lifetime: 3.72★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.68
🇦🇺 AU
+0.30
🇩🇪 DE
+0.19
🇫🇷 FR
+0.12
🇨🇦 CA
+0.11
🇬🇧 GB
-0.06
🇧🇷 BR
-0.37
Top praise themes
work schedule ×18 keep track ×16 it's easy ×14 multiple shifts ×14 only wish ×9 highly recommend ×9 add one ×9 different shifts ×9
Top complaint themes
please fix ×9 end date ×9 stopped working ×7 waste money ×6 doesn work ×6 ios update ×5 new ios ×5 keeps crashing ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 6%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.51628★ | 215 | 3.51628★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.10615★ | 358 | 3.10615★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.66667★ | 3 | 2.66667★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.01892★ | 370 | 3.01892★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.72★ | 100 | 3.72★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 100 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Shift Worker make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Shift Worker earns approximately $25K/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 Shift Worker?▴
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Who makes Shift Worker?▴
Shift Worker is published by Production Shed Pty Ltd 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 Shift Worker's BU Score?▴
Shift Worker has a BU Score of 57/100 (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.