Liberate: Screen Time Control
66
Quality Score
Solid
Liberate: Screen Time Control
by Jordan Carney
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Liberate: Screen Time Control is an iOS app from Jordan Carney in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.6★ across 856 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 Productivity 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
$6.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$6.8K – $14.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$8.4K – $25.3K
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
44 snapshots on record
Rating
4.6
Reviews
856 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$6.6K
Snapshots tracked
44
since Jun 2018
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.4y 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 |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 9.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$57K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$125K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $100K – $175K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~1.1× 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 |
| 📅 9.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
44K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
7.2K
Daily active
3.2K
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
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 9.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 12 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-24 · 16 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
| 📅 16 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$6.3K – $10.4K
12 months
$6.8K – $14.3K
24 months
$8.4K – $25.3K
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 · 45/100MID TIERunderperforming peersRevenue Strength
3.8
Product Quality
6.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.4
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $4K - $9K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.6★ across 856 reviews — solid.
- 📍 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 = $118K-$210K.
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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (856 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 · v2.5
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Liberate: Screen Time Control
- Developer
- Jordan Carney
- Bundle ID
- Not found
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- 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
- $6.6K/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 growth868 ratings+86700% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 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 → $0.00 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
Do you want to quit being distracted by your phone? Liberate will help you unshackle and start producing more than you consume.
Pick the apps and websites that steal your time, then choose how strict to be:
• Block: everything stays blocked until the end time you set
• Schedule: blocks start and stop by themselves on the days and hours you choose
• Limit: give apps an amount of time, or a number of opens, per hour, day or week, or any mix of the three. Use one up and they're blocked until it resets
Blocked means blocked.… View full description on the official store →
Pick the apps and websites that steal your time, then choose how strict to be:
• Block: everything stays blocked until the end time you set
• Schedule: blocks start and stop by themselves on the days and hours you choose
• Limit: give apps an amount of time, or a number of opens, per hour, day or week, or any mix of the three. Use one up and they're blocked until it resets
Blocked means blocked.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 12 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 26.0+🔖 v2.5🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Free🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 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 →
2026-10
💲
Went free — dropped $4.99 price point
2026-10
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
2026-10
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-10
📦
Bundle ↑ 7MB → 12MB — likely major code refresh
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2.2 → v2.5
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v1.2 → v1.2.2
2026-08
📦
Bundle ↓ 22MB → 7MB — likely major code refresh
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.0.10 → v1.2
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.68 → 4.60 (improved 1.92★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.92★ · reviews +806 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.92★ · reviews +806 high confidence
2026-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.92★ · reviews +806 high confidence
2019-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.12★ low · multiple changes
2019-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.88 → 3.56 (dropped 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.18★ medium · co-occurring
2019-08
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.17 → 3.71 (dropped 0.46★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ high confidence
2019-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 4.00 (dropped 0.50★)
2018-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2018-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
16 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPad screenshots
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3 ver.
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Slot 3
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-13
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Slot 4
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-13
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iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-25
2026-10-26
Slot 2
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-25
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Slot 3
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-25
2026-10-26
Slot 4
3 ver.
3 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-08-25
2026-10-26
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.68276★ | 870 | 4.68276★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.57522★ | 113 | 4.57522★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.59615★ | 52 | 4.59615★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.5★ | 2 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.53★ | 100 | 4.53★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.40909★ | 22 | 4.40909★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4★ | 4 | 4★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.7★ | 30 | 4.7★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Liberate: Screen Time Control: 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: 856 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Liberate make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Liberate earns approximately $6.6K/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 Liberate profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $6.6K, Liberate looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Liberate have?▴
Estimated audience: ~44K lifetime downloads, ~7K monthly active users, and ~3K 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 Liberate?▴
Browse the full Productivity 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 Liberate built with?▴
Our heuristic places Liberate on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (SwiftUI).
Is Liberate still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 16 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Liberate sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $125K (marketplace range $100K – $175K). Calculated as 19× 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 Liberate last updated?▴
Liberate last shipped a new version on 2026-10-24 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Liberate?▴
Liberate is published by Jordan Carney 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 Liberate's BU Score?▴
Liberate 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.