Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living
74
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
“
Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living is an iOS app from Tuya Smart Inc. in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 44,285 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 74: 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
$24.3K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$25.2K – $52.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$31.2K – $93.6K
per month
MID 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
203 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
44,285 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$24.3K
Snapshots tracked
203
since Oct 2023
🤖Also on Android
$86/mo · 533K ratings · 4.5★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$140K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $105K – $190K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 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 (297 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-13575 |
| ⚙ 10.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$65K |
Total estimate
$140K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$425K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~3.0× 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 |
| 📅 10.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
6.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
570K
Daily active
110K
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 |
| 📅 10.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
19% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
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 | 297 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-06 · 19 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · 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
| 📅 19 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$24.3K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$23.1K – $38.5K
12 months
$25.2K – $52.8K
24 months
$31.2K – $93.6K
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 43/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersRevenue Strength
4.4
Product Quality
7.7
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
4.3
Founder Strength
4.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $17K - $36K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 44,285 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -2.82 ★ (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 = $292K-$535K. 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (44,285 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| securityREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (65 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 |
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 · v7.11.3
Hey Tuya — Your AI Assistant for Living!
Say goodbye to complicated operations. Chat with Hey Tuya and enjoy a smarter, easier life.
[Conversational Control] Want to turn on the lights or adjust the AC? Just say it! AI intelligently manages your home devices.… Full release notes →
Say goodbye to complicated operations. Chat with Hey Tuya and enjoy a smarter, easier life.
[Conversational Control] Want to turn on the lights or adjust the AC? Just say it! AI intelligently manages your home devices.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living
- Developer
- Tuya Smart Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.tuya.smart
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, AZ, EU, BE, BN, BS, BG, MY, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, KA, DE, EL, HA, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, JV, KS, KK, RW, KO, KY, LO, LV, LT, MK, MS, MR, MN, NE, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SW, SV, TG, TA, TE, TH, ZH, TR, UG, UK, UR, UZ, VI
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
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $24.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇫🇷#74 /100 🇬🇧#93 /100
- 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 growth44,440 ratings+9276% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇫🇷FR#74 /100
🇬🇧GB#93 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#74 now · best #74 · worst #74
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter15 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline8 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
Tuya — Your AI Assistant for Living
Tuya is your all-in-one AI assistant that makes smart living simple. Seamlessly control all your connected devices, stay on top of household tasks, and get personalized lifestyle tips — all in one place. Discover a smarter, more comfortable way to live.
Why Tuya:
• Smart Home Control: Connect and manage a wide range of smart devices with just a tap or a simple voice command — it's that easy.
• Automated Routines: Create custom automations based on time, weather, or device status. Let your home run itself so you don't have to.… View full description on the official store →
Tuya is your all-in-one AI assistant that makes smart living simple. Seamlessly control all your connected devices, stay on top of household tasks, and get personalized lifestyle tips — all in one place. Discover a smarter, more comfortable way to live.
Why Tuya:
• Smart Home Control: Connect and manage a wide range of smart devices with just a tap or a simple voice command — it's that easy.
• Automated Routines: Create custom automations based on time, weather, or device status. Let your home run itself so you don't have to.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 297 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v7.11.3🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AR, AZ, EU, BE, BN +60📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
28 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v7.10.0 → v7.11.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +35 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.9.6 → v7.10.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +57 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.9.4 → v7.9.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +35 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.9.3 → v7.9.4
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.9K/mo · reviews +55 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.9.1 → v7.9.3
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.9K/mo · reviews +59 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.9.0 → v7.9.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.9K/mo · reviews +61 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.8.6 → v7.9.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.9K/mo · reviews +59 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.8.4 → v7.8.6
→ 30 days after: revenue +$1.9K/mo · reviews +51 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.8.3 → v7.8.4
→ 30 days after: reviews +50 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.8.2 → v7.8.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +59 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.8.0 → v7.8.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +47 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v7.7.5 → v7.8.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +55 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v7.7.3 → v7.7.5
→ 30 days after: reviews +50 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v7.7.2 → v7.7.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +50 low · multiple changes
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +33 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.73 → 4.60 (improved 2.87★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +33 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.73 → 4.40 (improved 2.67★)
2024-06
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 864 reviews across 9 markets● 32% positive · ● 24% neutral · ● 44% negative · Rating drift: -2.82★ (declining — recent 50: 1.78★ vs lifetime: 4.6★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.47
🇫🇷 FR
+0.05
🇯🇵 JP
+0.02
🇺🇸 US
-0.06
🇧🇷 BR
-0.07
🇦🇺 AU
-0.11
🇨🇦 CA
-0.12
🇬🇧 GB
-0.15
🇩🇪 DE
-0.37
Top praise themes
litter box ×12 full screen ×7 data points ×4 latest update ×4 vacuum mop ×4 wet mop ×4 please add ×3 cat litter ×3
Top complaint themes
litter box ×38 doesn work ×27 customer service ×23 latest update ×19 turn off ×17 led lights ×13 last update ×12 cat litter ×11
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 0.7% Bug mentions: 6% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.9%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.5908★ | 44,460 | 4.5908★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.62249★ | 14,850 | 4.62249★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.37783★ | 7,453 | 4.37783★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.52109★ | 6,187 | 4.52109★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.21556★ | 1,953 | 4.21556★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.51413★ | 3,645 | 4.51413★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.49932★ | 3,717 | 4.49932★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.56514★ | 3,592 | 4.56514★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.62962★ | 459 | 4.62962★ this version |
🔔
Track this app’s revenue
FREEGet an email when revenue moves by your threshold. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
More by Tuya Smart Inc.
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$29K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 83% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 44,285 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living earns approximately $24K/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 Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $140K and monthly revenue $24K, Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 6 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living have?▴
Estimated audience: ~6.2M lifetime downloads, ~570K monthly active users, and ~110K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living?▴
Browse the full Utilities category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living built with?▴
Our heuristic places Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 19 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $425K (marketplace range $325K – $600K). Calculated as 18× 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 Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living last updated?▴
Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living last shipped a new version on 2026-09-06 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living?▴
Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living is published by Tuya Smart 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 Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living's BU Score?▴
Tuya - Smart Life,Smart Living has a BU Score of 74/100 (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.