Bound - Audiobook Player
73
Quality Score
Strong
Bound - Audiobook Player
by Deadpan, LLC
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Bound - Audiobook Player is an iOS app from Deadpan, LLC in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.6★ across 1,995 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 73: 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
$9.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$9.3K – $19.5K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$11.5K – $34.6K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
138 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
1,995 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$9.0K
Snapshots tracked
138
since Feb 2016
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~12 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 |
| ⚙ 10.8y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$64K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$150K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $125K – $200K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.4× 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 |
| 📅 10.8y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
275K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
26K
Daily active
5.2K
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 |
| 📅 10.8y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 48 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
77%
Last shipped 2025-02-25 · 577 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
| 📅 1y 7mo since last update | Likely deprioritized |
| • 11y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$9.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$8.6K – $14.2K
12 months
$9.3K – $19.5K
24 months
$11.5K – $34.6K
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
Stalled · 38/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.7
Product Quality
6.8
Revenue Strength
4.0
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
2.2
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $6K - $13K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.61★ across 1,995 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 576d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.77 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (576d 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 12-22× monthly = $108K-$198K. Portfolio play ($49K/mo combined) commands premium. 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:
| Paid app ($4.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,995 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| 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 · v2025.2
This version of Bound brings the following:
! Fixed issues related to Microsoft OneDrive not allowing .m4b downloads.
If you like Bound, please write a review in the App Store!
! Fixed issues related to Microsoft OneDrive not allowing .m4b downloads.
If you like Bound, please write a review in the App Store!
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Bound - Audiobook Player
- Developer
- Deadpan, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.timbueno.boundapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- 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
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $9.0K/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 growth2,008 ratings+612% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 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 → $4.99 (+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.
📝 About this app
Listen to your favorite DRM-free audiobooks with Bound.
Bound allows you to import audio files from various cloud services and play them back in a beautiful modern interface. Bound will automatically save your listening position so that you never lose your place.
Supported Audio File Types (DRM-free only): .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .aac
Download
- Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive.
- Apple Files.
- Web Uploader for importing from your computer via WiFi.
Manage
- Move audio files between books.
- Change cover art.
- Sort based on author, title, recently added, and recently played.… View full description on the official store →
Bound allows you to import audio files from various cloud services and play them back in a beautiful modern interface. Bound will automatically save your listening position so that you never lose your place.
Supported Audio File Types (DRM-free only): .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .aac
Download
- Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive.
- Apple Files.
- Web Uploader for importing from your computer via WiFi.
Manage
- Move audio files between books.
- Change cover art.
- Sort based on author, title, recently added, and recently played.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 48 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v2025.2🔄 updated 1y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (10y old)
📅
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
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +21 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.40 (improved 0.40★)
2019-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2019-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$238/mo · rating −0.09★ · reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2017-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$50/mo high confidence
2017-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$235/mo · reviews +9 high confidence
2016-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$106/mo high confidence
2016-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$108/mo · rating +0.07★ high confidence
2016-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$108/mo · rating +0.07★ medium · co-occurring
2016-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 615 reviews across 9 markets● 79% positive · ● 5% neutral · ● 16% negative · Rating drift: -0.77★ (declining — recent 50: 3.84★ vs lifetime: 4.61★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.84
🇦🇺 AU
+0.67
🇬🇧 GB
+0.58
🇺🇸 US
+0.58
🇨🇦 CA
+0.50
🇯🇵 JP
+0.44
🇫🇷 FR
+0.40
🇩🇪 DE
+0.16
🇧🇷 BR
+0.08
Top praise themes
google drive ×31 sleep timer ×22 audio books ×20 apple watch ×18 audio book ×18 audio files ×14 listen audiobooks ×14 cloud storage ×13
Top complaint themes
google drive ×19 audio books ×8 doesn work ×8 waste money ×7 latest update ×6 stopped working ×5 being able ×4 m4b files ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 7%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — deadpan.io
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.61376★ | 189 | 4.61376★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.75★ | 20 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.54575★ | 295 | 4.54575★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.44601★ | 213 | 4.44601★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.48571★ | 35 | 4.48571★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.39271★ | 247 | 4.39271★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.77419★ | 31 | 4.77419★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.38462★ | 13 | 4.38462★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.61252★ | 2,013 | 4.61252★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Bound - Audiobook Player: 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: 1,995 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Bound - Audiobook Player make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Bound - Audiobook Player earns approximately $9.0K/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 Bound - Audiobook Player profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $110K and monthly revenue $9.0K, Bound - Audiobook Player looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 12 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 Bound - Audiobook Player have?▴
Estimated audience: ~275K lifetime downloads, ~26K monthly active users, and ~5K 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 Bound - Audiobook Player?▴
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What is Bound - Audiobook Player built with?▴
Our heuristic places Bound - Audiobook Player on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Bound - Audiobook Player still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (77% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Bound - Audiobook Player sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $150K (marketplace range $125K – $200K). 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 Bound - Audiobook Player last updated?▴
Bound - Audiobook Player last shipped a new version on 2025-02-25 — more than 1 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Bound - Audiobook Player?▴
Bound - Audiobook Player is published by Deadpan, 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 Bound - Audiobook Player's BU Score?▴
Bound - Audiobook Player has a BU Score of 73/100 (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.