63
BU Score
Solid
Hooked
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Hooked is an iOS app from Telepathic, Inc. in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.2★ across 14,432 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 63 — Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 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:
| Mid install base (14,432 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 12 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 26.0+🔖 v5.0.0🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📝 About this app
HOOKED is the hottest app for anime stories on your phone—bite-size, tap-through episodes with bold manga-style art, cinematic panels, and nonstop cliffhangers–loved by 100,000,000+ people worldwide!
Featured in New York Times, Fox, Forbes, CNN, CNBC, LA Times, Guardian, Publishers Weekly and more.
Why you’ll love HOOKED
- Access tons of episodes for FREE. Start reading instantly.
- Explore the world’s largest selection of webcomics. Spanning diverse genres like horror, thriller, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, and more.
- Read, listen, or watch. Choose your format and switch anytime—perfect for quick breaks or all-night binges.
- Personally tailored picks. Smart recommendations and trending charts help you find your next obsession fast.
- Built for your phone. Tap to advance, smooth transitions, and “just one more” pacing that keeps you turning panels.
Perfect if you love: anime, manga, webtoons, or serialized fiction with big twists and bigger emotions.
Join millions of fans discovering stories in a whole new way. You won’t believe how it ends…
HOOKED UNLIMITED SUBSCRIPTION:
- You can subscribe for unlimited access to our full story catalog and premium content
- The subscription is $9.99 weekly*
- You’ll be able to watch unlimited stories for the duration of your subscription
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
- You can read our privacy policy and terms of use at http://www.hooked.co/privacy
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication
*Prices are equal to the value that “Apple’s App Store Matrix” determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD.
By using Hooked, you agree to our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines available at
https://www.hooked.co/terms
Questions? Email support@hooked.co for help!
Featured in New York Times, Fox, Forbes, CNN, CNBC, LA Times, Guardian, Publishers Weekly and more.
Why you’ll love HOOKED
- Access tons of episodes for FREE. Start reading instantly.
- Explore the world’s largest selection of webcomics. Spanning diverse genres like horror, thriller, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, and more.
- Read, listen, or watch. Choose your format and switch anytime—perfect for quick breaks or all-night binges.
- Personally tailored picks. Smart recommendations and trending charts help you find your next obsession fast.
- Built for your phone. Tap to advance, smooth transitions, and “just one more” pacing that keeps you turning panels.
Perfect if you love: anime, manga, webtoons, or serialized fiction with big twists and bigger emotions.
Join millions of fans discovering stories in a whole new way. You won’t believe how it ends…
HOOKED UNLIMITED SUBSCRIPTION:
- You can subscribe for unlimited access to our full story catalog and premium content
- The subscription is $9.99 weekly*
- You’ll be able to watch unlimited stories for the duration of your subscription
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
- You can read our privacy policy and terms of use at http://www.hooked.co/privacy
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication
*Prices are equal to the value that “Apple’s App Store Matrix” determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD.
By using Hooked, you agree to our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines available at
https://www.hooked.co/terms
Questions? Email support@hooked.co for help!
🆕 What's New · v5.0.0
owl: the latest version contains bug fixes and performance improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hooked
- Developer
- Telepathic, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- tv.telepathic.hooked
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $15.9K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇧🇷#88 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/letterloop-group-newsletters/id6468623700
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1895675718
📈Ratings growth14,432 ratings+19% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
📊Category Rank Trajectory#88 now · best #83 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
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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