WebNovel - Stories & Mangas
72
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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WebNovel - Stories & Mangas is an iOS app from Cloudary Holdings Limited in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.3★ across 46,632 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 72: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink app, that means healthy traction. 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
$24.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$24.8K – $51.9K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$30.7K – $92.1K
per month
MID tierFREE
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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
352 snapshots on record
Rating
4.3
Reviews
46,632 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$24.0K
Snapshots tracked
352
since Feb 2025
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$155K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $115K – $210K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~6 months 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 (240 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 9.4y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$56K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$425K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $325K – $600K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.7× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅 9.4y proven track record | +20% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
3.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
250K
Daily active
50K
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 |
| 📅 9.4y 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 · 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 | 240 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-14 · 46 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
| 📅 46 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$24.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$22.7K – $37.9K
12 months
$24.8K – $51.9K
24 months
$30.7K – $92.1K
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 · 38/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.2
Product Quality
7.2
Revenue Strength
4.4
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.8
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $16K - $35K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.35★ across 46,632 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 2.6% refund mentions, 7% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $287K-$527K. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (46,632 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 |
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 · v8.22.6
User Experience Optimization and Bug fixed.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- WebNovel - Stories & Mangas
- Developer
- Cloudary Holdings Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.webnovel.reader
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, DA, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- 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
- $24.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇨🇦#11 /100 🇩🇪#13 /100 🇮🇳#13 /100 🇺🇸#14 /100 🇫🇷#15 /100 🇦🇺#15 /100 🇧🇷#17 /100
- 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 growth47,934 ratings+10623% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇨🇦CA#11 /100
🇩🇪DE#13 /100
🇮🇳IN#13 /100
🇺🇸US#14 /100
🇫🇷FR#15 /100
🇦🇺AU#15 /100
🇧🇷BR#17 /100
🇬🇧GB#21 /100
🇯🇵JP#45 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#11 now · best #11 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀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
Read the novel and comic version of the hottest anime – Solo Leveling (Only I Level Up)!
Introducing the all-new WebNovel – your gateway to thrilling adventures!
Immerse yourself in a world of captivating novels and embark on unforgettable journeys. We're here to redefine the way you experience online reading: Let's read your adventures.
Discover a treasure trove of novel genres that will transport you to realms beyond your imagination. The library boasts hundreds of thousands of fanfictions, as well as Western fantasy stories where mythical creatures roam and epic quests unfold.… View full description on the official store →
Introducing the all-new WebNovel – your gateway to thrilling adventures!
Immerse yourself in a world of captivating novels and embark on unforgettable journeys. We're here to redefine the way you experience online reading: Let's read your adventures.
Discover a treasure trove of novel genres that will transport you to realms beyond your imagination. The library boasts hundreds of thousands of fanfictions, as well as Western fantasy stories where mythical creatures roam and epic quests unfold.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 240 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v8.22.6🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 AR, DA, EN, FR, DE +13📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (9y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v8.21.1 → v8.22.6
→ 30 days after: reviews +717 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.20.0 → v8.21.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.7K/mo · reviews +695 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v8.18.7 → v8.20.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$5.7K/mo · reviews +574 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.42 → 4.35 (improved 1.93★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +269 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +269 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 low · multiple changes
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.10 → 2.41 (dropped 1.69★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 low · multiple changes
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.42 → 4.10 (improved 1.68★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ · reviews +39 high confidence
2025-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +35 high confidence
2025-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +35 high confidence
2025-04
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ · reviews +38 high confidence
2025-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +31 high confidence
2025-02
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +31 low · multiple changes
2025-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.25 → 3.60 (improved 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +31 low · multiple changes
2025-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 3.00 (improved 2.00★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +31 low · multiple changes
2025-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 646 reviews across 7 markets● 47% positive · ● 13% neutral · ● 40% negative · Rating drift: -2.21★ (declining — recent 50: 2.14★ vs lifetime: 4.35★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.27
🇯🇵 JP
+0.19
🇺🇸 US
+0.10
🇬🇧 GB
+0.09
🇦🇺 AU
+0.02
🇨🇦 CA
-0.06
🇩🇪 DE
-0.27
Top praise themes
fast passes ×4 read books ×4 please add ×4 reading novel ×4 read chapters ×3 reading books ×3 create account ×3 free reading ×3
Top complaint themes
customer service ×27 one book ×13 fast passes ×13 fast pass ×13 waste money ×12 rip off ×12 unlock chapters ×11 read book ×11
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 2.6% Subscription complaints: 7% Bug mentions: 6% Fraud / scam mentions: 7.0%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.18896★ | 1,921 | 4.18896★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.41024★ | 1,855 | 4.41024★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.12279★ | 3,339 | 4.12279★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.05886★ | 1,529 | 4.05886★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.22717★ | 1,347 | 4.22717★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.26215★ | 3,128 | 4.26215★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.34042★ | 2,303 | 4.34042★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.2099★ | 505 | 4.2099★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.34206★ | 48,002 | 4.34206★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for WebNovel - Stories & Mangas: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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⚠ Concentrated — top app contributes 83% of combined revenue (single-app dependency)
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 46,632 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does WebNovel - Stories & Mangas make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, WebNovel - Stories & Mangas earns approximately $23K/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 WebNovel - Stories & Mangas profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $23K, WebNovel - Stories & Mangas looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 6 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does WebNovel - Stories & Mangas have?▴
Estimated audience: ~3.2M lifetime downloads, ~250K monthly active users, and ~50K 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 WebNovel - Stories & Mangas?▴
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 WebNovel - Stories & Mangas built with?▴
Our heuristic places WebNovel - Stories & Mangas 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 WebNovel - Stories & Mangas still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would WebNovel - Stories & Mangas sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $425K (marketplace range $325K – $600K). 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 WebNovel - Stories & Mangas last updated?▴
WebNovel - Stories & Mangas last shipped a new version on 2026-08-14 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes WebNovel - Stories & Mangas?▴
WebNovel - Stories & Mangas is published by Cloudary Holdings Limited 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 WebNovel - Stories & Mangas's BU Score?▴
WebNovel - Stories & Mangas has a BU Score of 72/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.