FanFiction.Net
46
Quality Score
Emerging
FanFiction.Net
by FictionPress Inc
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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FanFiction.Net is an iOS app from FictionPress Inc in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 2.7★ across 737 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 46: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
257 snapshots on record
Rating
2.7
Reviews
737 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
257
since Mar 2023
🤖Also on Android
$63/mo · 47K ratings · 2.4★
View →
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$150K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $110K – $200K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.5y 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 (134 MB) | +$33K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$8K |
| ⚙ 9.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$58K |
Total estimate
$150K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 9.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
51K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
3.8K
Daily active
760
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 9.7y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
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 | 134 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
88%
Last shipped 2024-09-11 · 745 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
| 📅 2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
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)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
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
Stalled · 36/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
3.7
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.4
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.66★ across 737 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 740d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (740d 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 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 9 of 9 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (2.7★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (27 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (737 ratings)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 · v66.0
v66.0:
* New: exclude category filter option in global and crossover search
* 5 critical document editor bug fixes
* Dark mode/theme will now auto sync reading theme to dark version
* New: exclude category filter option in global and crossover search
* 5 critical document editor bug fixes
* Dark mode/theme will now auto sync reading theme to dark version
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FanFiction.Net
- Developer
- FictionPress Inc
- Bundle ID
- net.fanfiction.ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, LV, MS, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
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
- $5.0K/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 growth886 ratings+99% 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.
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
Official app for FanFiction.Net is now on iOS!
* Read - Access millions of stories for free
* Write - Edit and Publish your stories on the go
* Text to Speech - Turn stories into audio books
* Translation: Read stories translated into your native language via our AI engine
* Syncing - Library/Downloaded syncing between devices
* Dictionary - Multi-language dictionary lookup
* Forums - Join writing groups or make friends with millions of other readers and writers.
* Push - Push notifications for Followed/Downloaded stories… View full description on the official store →
* Read - Access millions of stories for free
* Write - Edit and Publish your stories on the go
* Text to Speech - Turn stories into audio books
* Translation: Read stories translated into your native language via our AI engine
* Syncing - Library/Downloaded syncing between devices
* Dictionary - Multi-language dictionary lookup
* Forums - Join writing groups or make friends with millions of other readers and writers.
* Push - Push notifications for Followed/Downloaded stories… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 134 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v66.0🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 CA, CS, DA, NL, EN +22📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.22★ · reviews +248 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$80/mo · reviews +32 high confidence
2024-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2024-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2023-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2023-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$50/mo · reviews +18 high confidence
2023-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2023-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.34★ · reviews +15 high confidence
2023-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.25 → 3.60 (improved 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.18★ high confidence
2023-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.18★ low · multiple changes
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.25 (dropped 0.75★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.18★ low · multiple changes
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.00 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.18★ low · multiple changes
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 3.50 (improved 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.18★ low · multiple changes
2023-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.18★ low · multiple changes
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.44444★ | 45 | 2.44444★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 2.77778★ | 9 | 2.77778★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.28723★ | 94 | 2.28723★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.20588★ | 34 | 2.20588★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2.76316★ | 38 | 2.76316★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.35227★ | 88 | 2.35227★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 1.42308★ | 26 | 1.42308★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.50552★ | 906 | 2.50552★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for FanFiction.Net: 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: 737 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does FanFiction.Net make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, FanFiction.Net 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 FanFiction.Net profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $150K and monthly revenue $5.0K, FanFiction.Net looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.5 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does FanFiction.Net have?▴
Estimated audience: ~51K lifetime downloads, ~3K monthly active users, and ~760 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 FanFiction.Net?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink 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 FanFiction.Net built with?▴
Our heuristic places FanFiction.Net on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is FanFiction.Net still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would FanFiction.Net sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 FanFiction.Net last updated?▴
FanFiction.Net last shipped a new version on 2024-09-11 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes FanFiction.Net?▴
FanFiction.Net is published by FictionPress 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 FanFiction.Net's BU Score?▴
FanFiction.Net has a BU Score of 46/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.