TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers)
44
Quality Score
Emerging
TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) is an iOS app from Teacher Synergy Inc. in the News category, currently rated 2.5★ across 519 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 44: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a News app, that means early traction worth watching. 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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📊 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
$85K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $65K – $115K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.9y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (105 MB) | +$21K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$14K |
Total estimate
$85K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$20K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $25K · 11× MRR multiple
💸
~0.2× 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 < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
11× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
62K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
9.3K
Daily active
4.1K
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
44% sticky
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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: rating drift may slow acquisition
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 · 34/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
2.1
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.55★ across 519 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — rating drift -0.51 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (13y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (519 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| 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.
🆕 What's New · v2.21.7
We've made some changes to the TPT app to improve your experience and the app's performance. Please let us know at www.teacherspayteachers.com/contact if you experience any issues.
Thank you for your help and for you being a part of the TPT community!
Thank you for your help and for you being a part of the TPT community!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers)
- Developer
- Teacher Synergy Inc.
- Bundle ID
- pedelman.TpT
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT
- Description
- World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.
- 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
- $1.8K/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
- Socials
- facebook facebook.com/TeachersPayTeachers · instagram instagram.com/teacherspayteachers · twitter x.com/TpT_Official
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- teacherspayteachers.com/browse/holida…
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.82★ · 8.2% 5★ · 59.2% 1★
5★4 (8%)
4★2 (4%)
3★4 (8%)
2★10 (20%)
1★29 (59%)
+2 ratings/week
Praise: love ×9 great ×2 favorite ×1 perfect ×1 awesome ×1Complaints: hate ×1 broken ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Wonderful Resource Throughout the Years
Teachers Pay Teachers has provided me with valuable enrichment for my students for all subjects, throughout the years. Thank you! Fun and easy to use.…
★★★★★ Helpful
I absolutely love this app, and it’s so helpful when it comes to homeschooling. It’s cheaper just to find something on this app when you need fill ins.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Wow...not good
The fact that you can't filter anything other than free is ridiculous in the year 2025. You can't see prices or things that are on sale, just stores that are having sales.…
★☆☆☆☆ Trash
This app is useless and won’t even let me buy anything!!! I’ve reached out to them and no response. Absurd. Do better!…
📈Ratings growth519 ratings+17% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (59 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.
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
TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators. With millions of resources across grades, subjects, and specialties, it’s easy to find the just-right resource for whatever you need.
TPT Companion is your helpful app to learn more about resources for sale on TPT. Explore our vast library of digital downloads, from full-year curricula to bell ringer activities, and level up your teaching experience like never before.
What you’ll love about TPT Companion:… View full description on the official store →
TPT Companion is your helpful app to learn more about resources for sale on TPT. Explore our vast library of digital downloads, from full-year curricula to bell ringer activities, and level up your teaching experience like never before.
What you’ll love about TPT Companion:… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 105 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v2.21.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
11 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 ↑ 2.22 → 2.55 (improved 0.33★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.60 → 2.22 (dropped 0.38★)
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.22 → 2.60 (improved 0.38★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2015-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2014-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.14 (dropped 0.36★)
2014-01
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.75 → 3.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2014-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
2013-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 205 reviews across 2 markets● 55% positive · ● 8% neutral · ● 38% negative · Rating drift: -0.51★ (declining — recent 50: 2.04★ vs lifetime: 2.55★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.49
🇺🇸 US
+0.15
Top praise themes
cha ching ×6 able purchase ×4 being able ×3 now buy ×3 miss cha ×3 seller ×10 new ×10 phone ×6
Top complaint themes
able purchase ×14 can't purchase ×12 please fix ×10 purchase items ×10 purchase through ×10 wish list ×8 cannot purchase ×8 cart purchase ×6
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 4%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.55192★ | 520 | 2.55192★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3★ | 6 | 3★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 1★ | 2 | 1★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.33333★ | 42 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.05882★ | 17 | 3.05882★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2★ | 1 | 2★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3★ | 2 | 3★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers): 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: 519 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) earns approximately $1.8K/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 TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers)?▴
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Who makes TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers)?▴
TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) is published by Teacher Synergy Inc. 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 TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers)'s BU Score?▴
TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) has a BU Score of 44/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.