52
Quality Score
Solid
WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool is an iOS app from Tommaso Madonia in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.4★ across 35 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 52: 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.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$2.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.4K – $8.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.3K – $20.3K
per month
INDIE tier
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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
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Pays back in ~7 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 |
| ⚙14.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$86K |
Total estimate$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 12× MRR multiple
💸~1.7× build cost (break-even+)
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 |
| 📅14.4y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷Utilities category multiple | -10% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple12× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2017-09-22 · 3167 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
| 📅8y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥Small user base (35 ratings) + 14.4y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| •14y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
VerdictLikely abandoned
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.8K/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
$2.4K – $5.5K
12 months
$2.4K – $8.8K
24 months
$2.3K – $20.3K
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 · 36/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.4
Product Quality
2.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
5.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $6K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.4★ across 35 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3167d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (3167d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $50K-$88K. Portfolio play ($18K/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 ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (14y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Pre-traction phase (35 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 9.0+🔖 v2.2.1🔄 updated 8y ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, ZH +1📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (14y old)
📝 About this app
WakeUp is a "Wake on LAN" tool that allows your iPhone/iPod/iPad to wake up a computer via a local network or internet.
--- Features: ---
• Wake / sleep* / shutdown* computer on the local network or via internet**
• Automatically finds computers on the local network (easy setup!)
• LAN broadcast/DNS/IP address support
• SecureOn support
• Add as many computers as you want
• Add group of computers for one-touch wake
• Wake your computers directly from springboard (not compatible with iOS 7 and iOS 8)
• iCloud sync
• Shake'n'wake all devices… View full description on the official store →
--- Features: ---
• Wake / sleep* / shutdown* computer on the local network or via internet**
• Automatically finds computers on the local network (easy setup!)
• LAN broadcast/DNS/IP address support
• SecureOn support
• Add as many computers as you want
• Add group of computers for one-touch wake
• Wake your computers directly from springboard (not compatible with iOS 7 and iOS 8)
• iCloud sync
• Shake'n'wake all devices… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.2.1
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
- Update for new iOS version
- Update for new iOS version
📅
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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.40 (dropped 0.60★)
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $0.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2013-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2012-06
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
2012-02
🚀
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.4★ | 35 | 3.4★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.25★ | 8 | 3.25★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.96226★ | 53 | 3.96226★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.55556★ | 9 | 3.55556★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.71429★ | 7 | 3.71429★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 4 | 4★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.33333★ | 6 | 2.33333★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1.66667★ | 3 | 1.66667★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool
- Developer
- Tommaso Madonia
- Bundle ID
- com.tmadonia.WakeUp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Coming Soon
- 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
- $18.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- twitter.com/Frugghi
- linkedin.com/in/tommasomadonia
- GitHub
- github.com/Frugghi
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
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/Frugghi · github github.com/Frugghi · linkedin linkedin.com/in/tommasomadonia · twitter twitter.com/Frugghi
- contact@tommasomadonia.com
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth35 ratings+3400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (41 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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 → $0.99 (+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.
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 35 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool earns approximately $18K/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 WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $18K, WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 7 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 WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool?▴
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What is WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool built with?▴
Our heuristic places WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) 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 (SwiftUI).
Is WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 8+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $225K (marketplace range $175K – $300K). Calculated as 12× 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 WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool last updated?▴
WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool last shipped a new version on 2017-09-22 — more than 8 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool?▴
WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool is published by Tommaso Madonia 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 WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool's BU Score?▴
WakeUp - The Wake on LAN tool has a BU Score of 52/100 (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.