52
BU Score
Solid
Hearo - Live Captions
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Hearo - Live Captions is an iOS app from Thomas Backes in the Education category, currently rated 3.9★ across 43 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Education app, that means established niche player.
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 5 of 5 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 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (43 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.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 8 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 13.2+🔖 v2.4🔄 updated 5y ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📝 About this app
This app performs live captioning of speech. To use the app, just hit the microphone button and begin speaking. The spoken words are converted to text and displayed on the screen. To stop the captioning, press the microphone button again. Use this app to help communicate and record what was said.
This app can be helpful for talking with deaf and hard of hearing persons. It can also help with ESL (English as a Second Language) persons and those who are not comfortable speaking English and prefer to read it. It can also help those that want to take a break from lipreading.
Features
- Live transcribing of speech
- Scalable font size
- Screen rotation to point the microphone at the speaker
- Four text color options
- Save transcripts to file or send via SMS
- Support for English, Spanish, and French languages
Thank you for your interest in the app!
This app can be helpful for talking with deaf and hard of hearing persons. It can also help with ESL (English as a Second Language) persons and those who are not comfortable speaking English and prefer to read it. It can also help those that want to take a break from lipreading.
Features
- Live transcribing of speech
- Scalable font size
- Screen rotation to point the microphone at the speaker
- Four text color options
- Save transcripts to file or send via SMS
- Support for English, Spanish, and French languages
Thank you for your interest in the app!
🆕 What's New · v2.4
Thank you for checking out the app. This version includes support for the French language.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Hearo - Live Captions
- Developer
- Thomas Backes
- Bundle ID
- hearo
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $8.1K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 99 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
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- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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- AngelList
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Press & Links
- Articles found
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- Listed on
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- Blog
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/letterloop-group-newsletters/id6468623700
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
- https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/story/id1406503654
📈Ratings growth43 ratings+4200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (4 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.
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Hearo - Live Captions: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.