Whisper Notes - Speech to Text
70
Quality Score
Strong
Whisper Notes - Speech to Text
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Whisper Notes - Speech to Text is an iOS app from SmashMelon LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 479 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$5.1K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$4.5K – $16.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$4.1K – $37.1K
per month
INDIE tier
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- Description hook & conversion structure
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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 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (480 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
Total estimate
$75K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $700K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~6.7× 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 ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
95K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
19K
Daily active
3.8K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.1K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.3K – $10.1K
12 months
$4.5K – $16.1K
24 months
$4.1K – $37.1K
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 · 47/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
5.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.3
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $12K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.1★ across 318 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $91K-$163K. Portfolio play ($38K/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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($6.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| Multilingual (37 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Early-stage install base (479 ratings)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.
🆕 What's New · v1.8.1
Improvements
- More reliable recording when switching between speakers, headphones, or Bluetooth devices.
- Fixed clipboard not working reliably after transcription.
- Imported audio files are now verified before cleanup, preventing accidental data loss.… Full release notes →
- More reliable recording when switching between speakers, headphones, or Bluetooth devices.
- Fixed clipboard not working reliably after transcription.
- Imported audio files are now verified before cleanup, preventing accidental data loss.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Whisper Notes - Speech to Text
- Developer
- SmashMelon LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.mazzystar.WhisperMemo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SV, TA, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- whispernotes.app
- 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
- $38.5K/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.
📈Ratings growth479 ratings+584% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (54 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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 → $6.99 (+0%)
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
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
Whisper Notes — Maybe the Best Offline Transcription App
One purchase. Yours forever.
Record, import, transcribe—100% on your device. Nothing ever goes to the cloud.
Trusted by 60,000+ journalists, researchers, and professionals.
■ Core Features
- Record meetings, lectures, ideas—transcribe 100% offline, nothing ever leaves your device
- Capture ideas instantly—from Lock Screen, Control Center, Action Button, or just say "Hey Siri"
- Import audio and video from any app (WhatsApp, Photos, Voice Memos, etc.)—even extract subtitles… View full description on the official store →
One purchase. Yours forever.
Record, import, transcribe—100% on your device. Nothing ever goes to the cloud.
Trusted by 60,000+ journalists, researchers, and professionals.
■ Core Features
- Record meetings, lectures, ideas—transcribe 100% offline, nothing ever leaves your device
- Capture ideas instantly—from Lock Screen, Control Center, Action Button, or just say "Hey Siri"
- Import audio and video from any app (WhatsApp, Photos, Voice Memos, etc.)—even extract subtitles… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 480 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v1.8.1🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AR, BN, BG, CA, HR +32📂 Utilities💰 Paid
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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 ↑ 4.10 → 4.61 (improved 0.51★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $6.99 price point
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v1.8.0
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.72 → 4.10 (improved 0.38★)
2026-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2023-04
🚀
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 | 4.29629★ | 27 | 4.29629★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.67568★ | 37 | 4.67568★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 42 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.2053★ | 151 | 4.2053★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.12245★ | 49 | 4.12245★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.44898★ | 49 | 4.44898★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.07692★ | 13 | 4.07692★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.89552★ | 67 | 3.89552★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.62815★ | 476 | 4.62815★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 479 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Whisper Notes - Speech to Text make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Whisper Notes - Speech to Text earns approximately $38K/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.
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Who makes Whisper Notes - Speech to Text?▴
Whisper Notes - Speech to Text is published by SmashMelon LLC 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 Whisper Notes - Speech to Text's BU Score?▴
Whisper Notes - Speech to Text has a BU Score of 70/100 (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.