47
BU Score
Emerging
Simple Refresh for Safari
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Simple Refresh for Safari is an iOS app from William Walker in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.5★ across 24 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities app, that means early traction worth watching.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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 8 of 8 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.5★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (31 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (24 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.
💚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 →💾 5 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.6+🔖 v3.6.0🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 AR, BN, CS, DA, NL +26📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2019 (6y old)
📝 About this app
Simple Refresh brings automatic webpage refresh functionality to Safari on iOS and macOS.
Stop manually refreshing pages—let Simple Refresh do it for you.
With an intuitive slider interface or direct input, set your preferred refresh interval from
1 second to 10 minutes and let the extension handle the rest. Each Safari tab maintains its
own refresh settings, so you can monitor multiple pages simultaneously with different refresh
rates.
Key Features:
- Automatic page refresh at customizable intervals (1s, 5s, 15s, 30s, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, or any
custom interval between 1s and 10m)
- Live countdown timer shows time remaining until next refresh
- Slider control or click-to-edit display for flexible input
- Independent refresh settings for each tab
- Visual "On" badge shows active refresh status
- Settings persist across browser sessions
- Efficient battery usage with smart refresh engine
- Available in 27 languages
- Works on both iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Perfect for:
- Monitoring live scores, stock tickers, and weather updates
- Watching for content changes without manual refreshing
- Development and testing workflows
- Any webpage that updates frequently
Simple Refresh focuses on doing one thing well: refreshing webpages automatically. No complex
setup, no unnecessary features—just reliable, automatic refresh when you need it.
Stop manually refreshing pages—let Simple Refresh do it for you.
With an intuitive slider interface or direct input, set your preferred refresh interval from
1 second to 10 minutes and let the extension handle the rest. Each Safari tab maintains its
own refresh settings, so you can monitor multiple pages simultaneously with different refresh
rates.
Key Features:
- Automatic page refresh at customizable intervals (1s, 5s, 15s, 30s, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, or any
custom interval between 1s and 10m)
- Live countdown timer shows time remaining until next refresh
- Slider control or click-to-edit display for flexible input
- Independent refresh settings for each tab
- Visual "On" badge shows active refresh status
- Settings persist across browser sessions
- Efficient battery usage with smart refresh engine
- Available in 27 languages
- Works on both iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Perfect for:
- Monitoring live scores, stock tickers, and weather updates
- Watching for content changes without manual refreshing
- Development and testing workflows
- Any webpage that updates frequently
Simple Refresh focuses on doing one thing well: refreshing webpages automatically. No complex
setup, no unnecessary features—just reliable, automatic refresh when you need it.
🆕 What's New · v3.6.0
What’s New in Version 3.6.0
• Added a disclaimer in the iOS instructions for refresh intervals under 30 seconds
• Added an in-app disclaimer in the extension when using refresh intervals under 30 seconds
• Improved reliability and recovery for sub-30-second refresh timers
• Increased the minimum supported iOS version to 16.6
This update improves clarity around shorter refresh intervals and makes timer behavior more stable overall.
• Added a disclaimer in the iOS instructions for refresh intervals under 30 seconds
• Added an in-app disclaimer in the extension when using refresh intervals under 30 seconds
• Improved reliability and recovery for sub-30-second refresh timers
• Increased the minimum supported iOS version to 16.6
This update improves clarity around shorter refresh intervals and makes timer behavior more stable overall.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Simple Refresh for Safari
- Developer
- William Walker
- Bundle ID
- william-walker.simple-refresh
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, BN, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- willswire.com
- Tagline
- WILL'S WIRE
- Description
- Platform engineer passionate about modernizing legacy applications, creator of AFI Explorer, and follower of Christ
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- https://github.com/willswire
- 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
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- github
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth24 ratings+2300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 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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