Panels - Comic Reader
78
Quality Score
Strong
Panels - Comic Reader
by Produkt Studio
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Panels - Comic Reader is an iOS app from Produkt Studio in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 11,587 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: 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
$16.2K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$16.8K – $35.1K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$20.8K – $62.3K
per month
MID tier
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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
151 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
11,587 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$16.2K
Snapshots tracked
151
since Nov 2018
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 ~10 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 (165 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 8.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$53K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~2.1× 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 |
| 📅 8.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
810K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
66K
Daily active
13K
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 |
| 📅 8.9y 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 | 165 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-18 · 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
$16.2K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$15.4K – $25.6K
12 months
$16.8K – $35.1K
24 months
$20.8K – $62.3K
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 · 52/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
9.6
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.2
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $11K - $24K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.78★ across 11,587 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ 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 = $291K-$518K. Portfolio play ($38K/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
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 15 of 15 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (11,587 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (12 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$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 · v3.13.7
Improvements
- Deleting a comic now also frees the temporary files Panels unpacked in order to read it.
- Those temporary files are now always cleaned up, including when the app is closed in the middle of a comic.… Full release notes →
- Deleting a comic now also frees the temporary files Panels unpacked in order to read it.
- Those temporary files are now always cleaned up, including when the app is closed in the middle of a comic.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Panels - Comic Reader
- Developer
- Produkt Studio
- Bundle ID
- es.produkt.app.panels
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CA, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, 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
- $16.2K/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 growth12,387 ratings+2671% 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 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
Improve your comic reading experience with Panels. Enjoy reading your favorite titles in a clean and delightful interface, with plenty of customization and advanced features — fully DRM-free, with first-class support for OPDS, your own library, and your own files.
Key features:
- Universal Compatibility: Support for most common comic types: CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF and comic ePUB (not text eBook). Support for multiple image formats, including WebP.
- Cross-Device Sync: Synchronize your reading progress across iPhone, iPad and Mac and resume reading exactly where you left off.… View full description on the official store →
Key features:
- Universal Compatibility: Support for most common comic types: CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF and comic ePUB (not text eBook). Support for multiple image formats, including WebP.
- Cross-Device Sync: Synchronize your reading progress across iPhone, iPad and Mac and resume reading exactly where you left off.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 165 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v3.13.7🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 CA, EN, FR, DE, HI +7📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2017 (8y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
21 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 →
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v3.13.3 → v3.13.7
→ 30 days after: reviews +205 high confidence
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 13 of 13 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +205 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v3.13.1 → v3.13.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +409 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v3.12.6 → v3.13.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$27.0K/mo · reviews +395 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v3.12.2 → v3.12.6
→ 30 days after: revenue +$27.0K/mo · reviews +462 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.64 → 4.78 (improved 1.14★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +271 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +271 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.70 → 3.64 (dropped 1.06★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.65 → 4.70 (improved 1.05★)
2020-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$89/mo high confidence
2020-04
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$245/mo · reviews +11 high confidence
2019-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$70/mo high confidence
2019-08
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$179/mo · reviews +8 high confidence
2019-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.33 → 3.72 (improved 0.39★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$65/mo high confidence
2018-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2018-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.45 (dropped 1.55★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$172/mo · rating −0.08★ · reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2018-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$387/mo · rating −1.63★ · reviews +18 low · multiple changes
2018-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 3.57 (dropped 0.43★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$387/mo · rating −1.63★ · reviews +18 medium · co-occurring
2018-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.00 (dropped 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$215/mo · rating −1.55★ · reviews +10 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
13 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
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🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — panels.app
- Mail provider
- Google Workspace
- Tech stack
- Brevo (formerly Sendinblue)
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.77262★ | 840 | 4.77262★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.91192★ | 2,668 | 4.91192★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.77473★ | 2,042 | 4.77473★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.66805★ | 967 | 4.66805★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.79803★ | 1,723 | 4.79803★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.7572★ | 1,874 | 4.7572★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.78073★ | 1,391 | 4.78073★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.49782★ | 229 | 4.49782★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.78807★ | 12,438 | 4.78807★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Panels - Comic Reader: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 11,587 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Panels - Comic Reader make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Panels - Comic Reader earns approximately $16K/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 Panels - Comic Reader profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $16K, Panels - Comic Reader looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 10 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 Panels - Comic Reader have?▴
Estimated audience: ~810K lifetime downloads, ~66K monthly active users, and ~13K 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 Panels - Comic Reader?▴
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 Panels - Comic Reader built with?▴
Our heuristic places Panels - Comic Reader 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 Panels - Comic Reader 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 Panels - Comic Reader sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 21× 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 Panels - Comic Reader last updated?▴
Panels - Comic Reader last shipped a new version on 2026-09-18 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Panels - Comic Reader?▴
Panels - Comic Reader is published by Produkt Studio 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 Panels - Comic Reader's BU Score?▴
Panels - Comic Reader has a BU Score of 78/100 (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.