The Yoga Sutras
66
Quality Score
Solid
The Yoga Sutras
by Trip Shanti
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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The Yoga Sutras is an iOS app from Trip Shanti in the News category, currently rated 4.8★ across 429 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 66: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
28 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
429 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
28
since Jun 2016
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$125K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $95K – $170K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.1y 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 (60 MB) | +$3K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙ 10.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$61K |
Total estimate
$125K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 10.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
36K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
2.7K
Daily active
1.2K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 10.3y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% 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 | 60 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2021-01-22 · 2075 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
| 📅 5y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (429 ratings) + 10.3y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 10y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
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)
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.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 43/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.7
Product Quality
6.8
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.83★ across 429 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2075d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (2075d since update).
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K.
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 ($2.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Early-stage install base (429 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 · v3.10
Jai Sri Radhe Shyam! I'm listening to all the feedback and am trying to add them in as soon as I received them. Got an idea? Please send it.
New Features include :
- 196 Stylized images for each sutra
- Text and Images for a Daily Sutra
- Daily Notifications
- Bookmarking… Full release notes →
New Features include :
- 196 Stylized images for each sutra
- Text and Images for a Daily Sutra
- Daily Notifications
- Bookmarking… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- The Yoga Sutras
- Developer
- Trip Shanti
- Bundle ID
- sevalifecom.sevalife.yogasutras
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- seva.life
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth429 ratings+10625% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (28 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 → $2.99 (+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
The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali is an incredible resource for anyone interested in Yoga. This app is a swiss army knife study guide complete with a searchable sanskrit dictionary, and audio chanting of every verse.
Unlike the book form, you can now easily scan through its contents by topic, etymology, translation, and commentary. You can listen to each verse, and memorize them with ease.
This project took a year and a half researching and translating this ancient text and compiling it into an pocket sized tool. Reading from Edwin Bryant, B. K. S.… View full description on the official store →
Unlike the book form, you can now easily scan through its contents by topic, etymology, translation, and commentary. You can listen to each verse, and memorize them with ease.
This project took a year and a half researching and translating this ancient text and compiling it into an pocket sized tool. Reading from Edwin Bryant, B. K. S.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 60 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 10.0+🔖 v3.10🔄 updated 5y ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
8 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 $2.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.17 → 4.90 (improved 0.73★)
2017-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2016-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.63 (dropped 0.37★)
2016-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2016-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.83833★ | 433 | 4.83833★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.94048★ | 84 | 4.94048★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.89473★ | 19 | 4.89473★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 9 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.5★ | 32 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.88571★ | 35 | 4.88571★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.75★ | 4 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.61538★ | 13 | 4.61538★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for The Yoga Sutras: 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: 429 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does The Yoga Sutras make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, The Yoga Sutras earns approximately $5.0K/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 The Yoga Sutras profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $125K and monthly revenue $5.0K, The Yoga Sutras looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.1 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does The Yoga Sutras have?▴
Estimated audience: ~36K lifetime downloads, ~2K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 The Yoga Sutras?▴
Browse the full News 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 The Yoga Sutras built with?▴
Our heuristic places The Yoga Sutras 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 The Yoga Sutras still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would The Yoga Sutras sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). 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 The Yoga Sutras last updated?▴
The Yoga Sutras last shipped a new version on 2021-01-22 — more than 5 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes The Yoga Sutras?▴
The Yoga Sutras is published by Trip Shanti 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 The Yoga Sutras's BU Score?▴
The Yoga Sutras has a BU Score of 66/100 (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.