Hearing Remote
62
Quality Score
Solid
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Hearing Remote is an iOS app from Sonova AG in the Education category, currently rated 4.4★ across 4,414 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 62: Solid (established niche player). For a Education 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
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
49 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
4,414 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
49
since Mar 2020
🤖Also on Android
$45/mo · 12K ratings · 4.4★
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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 under a month 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 (223 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 7.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$47K |
Total estimate
$155K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$14.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $11.0M – $19.0M · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~94× 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 |
| 📅 7.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
260K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
30K
Daily active
9.0K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 📅 7.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% 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 | 223 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-06-29 · 89 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
| 📅 89 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 52/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
6.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
7.0
Operational Safety
8.3
Founder Strength
6.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.4★ across 4,414 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -2.34 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $12.6M-$22.4M.
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 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Low install base (4,414 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (36 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
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 · v5.5.0
Highlights of this latest version include:
- support for the new hearing aids
- new options for providing feedback about your app experience
- general improvements and bug fixes
- support for the new hearing aids
- new options for providing feedback about your app experience
- general improvements and bug fixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hearing Remote
- Developer
- Sonova AG
- Bundle ID
- com.sonova.vista.rcapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- SQ, AR, BG, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HU, IT, JA, KO, LV, LT, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
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
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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 growth4,914 ratings+491300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (49 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 Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Say hello to Hearing Remote and experience a life where hearing is not just about what you hear but how you hear it.
With quick and seamless navigation, the Hearing Remote app allows you to easily and discretely make the adjustments you need in the moment. From volume control to programs that you can select and customize, you choose how to personalize your experience!
Feel confident in your hearing journey knowing that Hearing Remote provides you with:
Everyday Support… View full description on the official store →
With quick and seamless navigation, the Hearing Remote app allows you to easily and discretely make the adjustments you need in the moment. From volume control to programs that you can select and customize, you choose how to personalize your experience!
Feel confident in your hearing journey knowing that Hearing Remote provides you with:
Everyday Support… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 223 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v5.5.0🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 SQ, AR, BG, HR, CS +31📂 Education💰 Free🚀 Launched 2018 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
16 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 →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v5.4.2 → v5.5.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +87 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +144 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.43 → 4.40 (improved 1.97★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +144 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.20 → 2.43 (dropped 1.77★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.45 → 4.20 (improved 1.75★)
2025-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.10★ · reviews +7 low · multiple changes
2023-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.16 → 2.67 (improved 0.51★)
2021-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.33 (improved 0.33★)
2021-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.00 (improved 0.50★)
2021-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.50★ high confidence
2021-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.50 → 3.00 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.50★ high confidence
2020-11
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.50 (improved 1.50★)
2020-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 230 reviews across 7 markets● 31% positive · ● 21% neutral · ● 48% negative · Rating drift: -2.34★ (declining — recent 50: 2.06★ vs lifetime: 4.4★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.05
🇨🇦 CA
+0.01
🇦🇺 AU
+0.00
🇧🇷 BR
+0.00
🇬🇧 GB
-0.06
🇫🇷 FR
-0.38
🇩🇪 DE
-0.52
Top praise themes
audicus aids ×3 battery life ×3 aid ×9 easy ×8 bluetooth ×8 simple ×7 die ×7 phone ×6
Top complaint themes
volume control ×7 doesn work ×6 pair aids ×5 only one ×5 nicht möglich ×5 und die ×5 keeps dropping ×4 blue tooth ×4
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.37624★ | 4,957 | 4.37624★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.18356★ | 2,141 | 4.18356★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.1809★ | 2,283 | 4.1809★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.92857★ | 14 | 3.92857★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.32984★ | 382 | 4.32984★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.24451★ | 1,775 | 4.24451★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.65226★ | 972 | 4.65226★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.25★ | 4 | 4.25★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hearing Remote: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 4,414 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Hearing Remote make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Hearing Remote earns approximately $700K/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 Hearing Remote profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $155K and monthly revenue $700K, Hearing Remote looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month 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 Hearing Remote have?▴
Estimated audience: ~260K lifetime downloads, ~30K monthly active users, and ~9K 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 Hearing Remote?▴
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What is Hearing Remote built with?▴
Our heuristic places Hearing Remote 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 Hearing Remote still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Hearing Remote sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $14.5M (marketplace range $11.0M – $19.0M). 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 Hearing Remote last updated?▴
Hearing Remote last shipped a new version on 2026-06-29 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Hearing Remote?▴
Hearing Remote is published by Sonova AG 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 Hearing Remote's BU Score?▴
Hearing Remote has a BU Score of 62/100 (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.