82
BU Score
Excellent
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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FAMILIES | TalkingPoints is an iOS app from TalkingPoints Corp in the Education category, currently rated 4.8★ across 91,540 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far — users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 82 — Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Education app, that means strong product-market fit.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (91,540 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (8y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 52 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v4.2542.4🔄 updated 6d ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2018 (8y old)
📝 About this app
TalkingPoints is a free application that lets you communicate with your children’s teachers and school. You will be able to send and receive messages through this application in your preferred language, because TalkingPoints will translate your message into English for teachers. Stay engaged and involved in your child’s learning by communicating and collaborating with their teacher and school using TalkingPoints!
🆕 What's New · v4.2542.4
Welcome! We're always working to make the app better so you can easily connect with your student's teachers. We’ve fixed some bugs to make the app ever better. Make sure you've got the latest and greatest version of the app! Need help? Please contact family@talkingpts.org.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
- Developer
- TalkingPoints Corp
- Bundle ID
- app.talkingpts.parents
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- TalkingPoints
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $0AI high
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $15.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/TalkingPointsEd
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/talkingpointsed/
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- http://talkingpts.org/news/
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook · instagram · linkedin · twitter
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://talkingpts.org/our-supporters-and-partners/
- About page
- https://talkingpts.org/about-us/
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: HIGH
The iOS app "FAMILIES | TalkingPoints" is free for families to use and does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases or subscriptions. TalkingPoints Corp, the parent organization, is a nonprofit that generates revenue primarily from grants, contributions, and fees paid by schools and districts for its platform. In 2024, TalkingPoints Corp reported total revenues of approximately $18.6 million USD.
Sources mentioned: TalkingPoints, Influence Watch, Growjo, Cause IQ, ProPublica, Tech & Learning, App Store, Google Play, Sensor Tower, Adapty
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 1.69★ · 4.1% 5★ · 59.2% 1★
5★2 (4%)
4★1 (2%)
3★6 (12%)
2★11 (22%)
1★29 (59%)
+2 ratings/week
Praise: great ×4 love ×1Complaints: bug ×3 hate ×2 worst ×2 terrible ×1 broken ×1
Top positive
★★★★☆ Talking points
Always sends it in Spanish, I can’t read write or speak Spanish!…
★★★★★ Simple to use and good support
Great to communicate to school and great support ( I had a problem to update my app, then I sent a email and a email and I received a answer a few minutes)…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ this sucks
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.…
★☆☆☆☆ App frequently does not work
Would give it 4 or 5 stars if it worked but I continuously get a “We’ll be right back. Our site is currently down” page when I open the app no matter how many times I restart the phone or reinstall the app. Been like this for more than a ye…
📈Ratings growth91,540 ratings+18% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (44 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 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.
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