Birds of Peru
60
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Birds of Peru is an iOS app from Birds In The Hand, LLC in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.5★ across 84 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 60: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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
$3.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$3.0K – $10.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.8K – $25.1K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 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
14 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
84 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$3.4K
Snapshots tracked
14
since Aug 2016
🤖Also on Android
$143/mo · 25 ratings · 3.2★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$160K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $120K – $215K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.8y 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 (1183 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 10.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$61K |
Total estimate
$160K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$50K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $45K – $75K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.3× 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 |
| 📅 10.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
🛠 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 | 1183 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2016-11-04 · 3615 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
| 📅 9y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (84 ratings) + 10.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 10y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.4K/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
$2.9K – $6.8K
12 months
$3.0K – $10.9K
24 months
$2.8K – $25.1K
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 · 39/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.5
Product Quality
3.6
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $8K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.49★ across 84 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 3615d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (3615d 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 = $62K-$110K.
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 6 of 6 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 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (84 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.
🆕 What's New · v1.1
The taxonomy has been updated to reflect 2016 Clements/eBird:
- We added detailed species accounts for the new Peruvian splits, so we now cover all of Peru's 1843 bird species
- We added audio recordings for some splits (where available) now covering 1515 species… Full release notes →
- We added detailed species accounts for the new Peruvian splits, so we now cover all of Peru's 1843 bird species
- We added audio recordings for some splits (where available) now covering 1515 species… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Birds of Peru
- Developer
- Birds In The Hand, LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.birdsinthehand.peruprinceton
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ES
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
- $3.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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 growth86 ratings+8500% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (14 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 → $34.99 (+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
Princeton Field Guides are comprehensive, in-depth identification tools designed for all nature enthusiasts.
This is the interactive mobile field guide version of Birds of Peru by Schulenberg, Stotz, Lane, O'Neill & Parker. Like the paper edition, it is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse neotropical landscape, featuring every one of Peru's 1,817 bird species. Every distinct plumage is covered in superb, high-quality color illustrations.… View full description on the official store →
This is the interactive mobile field guide version of Birds of Peru by Schulenberg, Stotz, Lane, O'Neill & Parker. Like the paper edition, it is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse neotropical landscape, featuring every one of Peru's 1,817 bird species. Every distinct plumage is covered in superb, high-quality color illustrations.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1.2 GB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v1.1🔄 updated 9y ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)
📅
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
💲
Went paid — introduced $34.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.13 → 4.70 (improved 0.57★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2018-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.25 (dropped 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.15★ high confidence
2017-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2016-08
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 7 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.44186★ | 86 | 4.44186★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.7★ | 20 | 4.7★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.83333★ | 12 | 3.83333★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 0★ | 0 | — |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
More by Birds In The Hand, LLC
View all →📦 Portfolio summaryINDIE studio
2apps·$4K/mocombined
⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 81% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 84 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 Birds of Peru make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Birds of Peru earns approximately $3.4K/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 Birds of Peru profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $160K and monthly revenue $3.4K, Birds of Peru looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.8 years 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 Birds of Peru?▴
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What is Birds of Peru built with?▴
Our heuristic places Birds of Peru 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 Birds of Peru still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 9+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Birds of Peru sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $50K (marketplace range $45K – $75K). 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 Birds of Peru last updated?▴
Birds of Peru last shipped a new version on 2016-11-04 — more than 9 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Birds of Peru?▴
Birds of Peru is published by Birds In The Hand, 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 Birds of Peru's BU Score?▴
Birds of Peru has a BU Score of 60/100 (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.