How much does Whatzit make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Whatzit earns approximately $200/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 Whatzit profitable?

With estimated build cost $120K and monthly revenue $200, Whatzit looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.

What apps are like Whatzit?

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What is Whatzit built with?

Our heuristic places Whatzit 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 Whatzit still actively maintained?

Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.

When was Whatzit last updated?

Whatzit last shipped a new version on 2026-07-11 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.

Whatzit is published by Essential Ventures 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 Whatzit's BU Score?

Whatzit has a BU Score of 59/100 (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.

Whatzit

Quality Score

Solid

Whatzit

Name: Whatzit — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: Bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Whatzit revenue, Whatzit app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Education revenue, iOS app revenue

by Essential Ventures LLC

Low confidence

4.6 App Store rating

✍️ Bumetric analysis

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Whatzit is an iOS app from Essential Ventures LLC in the Education category, currently rated 4.6★ across 37 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.

Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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

$200

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$100 – $931

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$100 – $2790

per month

MICRO tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

11 snapshots on record

idle

Rating

4.6

Reviews

37 reviews

Forecast Revenue / mo

$200

Snapshots tracked

since Jan 2024

ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$120K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $90K – $160K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost

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
⚙ Education complexity ×1.20	+$10K
⚙ 10.2y maintenance × ~1-person team	+$61K

Total estimate $120K

🛠 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	33 MB
🏷 Category context	Education
📦 Small-mid iOS bundle	→ Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era)

💀 Maintenance status

Slowing

25%

Last shipped 2026-07-11 · 76 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

📅 76 days since last update	Healthy release cadence
👥 Small user base (37 ratings) + 10.2y old	+10% (solo-project pattern)

Verdict Slowing

🔬

How we forecast this revenue

LOW CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$200/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+8.0% MoM · MICRO tier baseline (compound monthly)

Direction

Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition

6 months

$127 – $508

12 months

$100 – $931

24 months

$100 – $2.8K

Compound growth at +8.0% MoM (tier baseline for MICRO). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±60% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Insufficient data · 40/100MICRO TIERtoo early to score

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

4.9

Product Quality

3.7

Revenue Strength

2.3

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

4.5

Market Position

0.3

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Marginal — $0 - $500/mo · MICRO tier · indicative confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.62★ across 37 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 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 = $3K-$6K. Portfolio play ($8K/mo combined) commands premium.

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

MODEL

Revenue 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
Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC		+$2,200
Mature app (10y old)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
Single-language (English only)METRIC		−$400
Pre-traction phase (37 ratings)METRIC		−$300

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v2.6.0

**OPTIMIZED FOR LATEST IOS UPDATE**
- [iOS Optimizations] - Updated the app to fix visual and functional issues introduced when iOS 26 was released.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Whatzit
Developer: Essential Ventures LLC
Bundle ID: Not found
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Education
Content rating: 17+
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: $200/mo
Top-grossing rank: Not found
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 growth38 ratings+660% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (11 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.

🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked

🚀Version Release Timeline2 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

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What is TextScrub? Exclusive to Whatzit, TextScrub technology uses AI, computer vision and other proprietary processes to automatically redact text from X-rays prior to being posted in the Whatzit app.

This lightning fast process takes place completely on your device without any communication with Whatzit's cloud-based servers.… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 33 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v2.6.0🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2016 (10y old)

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

5 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected 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 →

2026-07

🔧

Shipped update — v2.5.8 → v2.6.0

2026-06

🔄

Monetization changed: paid → free

2025-09

⭐

Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.60 (dropped 0.40★)

2025-09

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in