Babelio, ma bibliothèque
53
Quality Score
Solid
Babelio, ma bibliothèque
by Pierre Fremaux
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Babelio, ma bibliothèque is an iOS app from Pierre Fremaux in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.4★ across 68 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 53: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tierFREE
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
68 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$500
Snapshots tracked
5
since Mar 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$135K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $180K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (121 MB) | +$28K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$7K |
| ⚙ 7.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$46K |
Total estimate
$135K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $10K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× build cost (under-water)
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 |
| 📅 7.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
🛠 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 | 121 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-07 · 21 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
| 📅 21 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥 Small user base (68 ratings) + 7.7y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition, review-mined risks present
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 29/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
2.9
Product Quality
2.0
Revenue Strength
2.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
3.9
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
3.8
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.4★ across 68 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.32 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $6K-$11K. 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 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (68 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
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 · v145.2
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Babelio, ma bibliothèque
- Developer
- Pierre Fremaux
- Bundle ID
- com.babelio.babelio
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- 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
- $500/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.
🌍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 Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Choisissez votre prochaine lecture grâce aux millions de critiques publiées par les autres lecteurs
Créez et gérez votre bibliothèque en quelques minutes en scannant le code-barre de vos livres
Découvrez et partagez avec d'autres passionnés de livres
Babelio est la première communauté de lecteurs francophones. Chaque jour des milliers de critiques, extraits ou notes de livres sont ajoutés par les membres du réseau social, et dans tous les genres. Que vous cherchiez à découvrir un livre.
La première base de données bibliographiques pour les lecteurs francophones… View full description on the official store →
Créez et gérez votre bibliothèque en quelques minutes en scannant le code-barre de vos livres
Découvrez et partagez avec d'autres passionnés de livres
Babelio est la première communauté de lecteurs francophones. Chaque jour des milliers de critiques, extraits ou notes de livres sont ajoutés par les membres du réseau social, et dans tous les genres. Que vous cherchiez à découvrir un livre.
La première base de données bibliographiques pour les lecteurs francophones… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 121 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v145.2🔄 updated 3w ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
5 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 — v143.7 → v145.2
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v0.129 → v143.7
2026-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
2026-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 77 reviews across 2 markets● 27% positive · ● 52% neutral · ● 21% negative · Rating drift: -1.32★ (declining — recent 50: 3.08★ 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)
🇫🇷 FR
+0.12
🇨🇦 CA
-0.09
Top praise themes
cette application ×5 pour les ×5 une application ×3 application est ×3 plus plus ×3 adore cette ×3 les lecteurs ×3 ses lectures ×3
Top complaint themes
impossible connecter ×9 mise jour ×5 dernière mise ×3 connecter mon ×3 mon compte ×3 tourne rond ×3 mot passe ×3 pas ×15
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 12%
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — babelio.com
- Tech stack
- Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) · Google Workspace
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 | 4.5★ | 10 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.42856★ | 7 | 4.42856★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.69273★ | 1,074 | 4.69273★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.56522★ | 23 | 4.56522★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.67502★ | 12,755 | 4.67502★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.72499★ | 40 | 4.72499★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.5★ | 2 | 4.5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.33333★ | 6 | 3.33333★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.43056★ | 72 | 4.43056★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 68 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Babelio, ma bibliothèque make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Babelio, ma bibliothèque earns approximately $500/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 Babelio, ma bibliothèque profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $135K and monthly revenue $500, Babelio, ma bibliothèque looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Babelio, ma bibliothèque?▴
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What is Babelio, ma bibliothèque built with?▴
Our heuristic places Babelio, ma bibliothèque 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 Babelio, ma bibliothèque still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 21 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Babelio, ma bibliothèque sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5.0K – $10K). 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 Babelio, ma bibliothèque last updated?▴
Babelio, ma bibliothèque last shipped a new version on 2026-09-07 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Babelio, ma bibliothèque?▴
Babelio, ma bibliothèque is published by Pierre Fremaux 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 Babelio, ma bibliothèque's BU Score?▴
Babelio, ma bibliothèque has a BU Score of 53/100 (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.