Storysome - Completed Story
76
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Storysome - Completed Story is an iOS app from HK IReader Technology Limited in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 37,618 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 76: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink app, that means healthy traction. 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
$2.2M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.3M – $3.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.8M – $5.2M
per month
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
53 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
37,618 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$2.2M
Snapshots tracked
53
since Dec 2021
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$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 (104 MB) | +$21K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$7K |
| ⚙ 6.1y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$36K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$45.5M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $34.0M – $59.0M · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~396× 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 |
| 📅 6.1y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
2.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
270K
Daily active
54K
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
| 📲 Food & Drink engagement | ~100 installs / rating |
| 📅 6.1y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
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 | 104 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
88%
Last shipped 2024-09-16 · 745 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
| 📅 2y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.2M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$2.2M – $2.9M
12 months
$2.3M – $3.6M
24 months
$2.8M – $5.2M
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 · 51/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.4
Product Quality
8.2
Revenue Strength
6.3
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
6.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
4.8
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $880K - $4840K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.85★ across 37,618 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 740d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -0.83 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime), dormant (740d since update).
🎯 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 = $26.4M-$48.4M. 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 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (37,618 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$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 · v10.8.40
Reading experience improved.
Fixed some bugs.
Fixed some bugs.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Storysome - Completed Story
- Developer
- HK IReader Technology Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.zhangyue.read.storytube
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN, KO, PT, ES, TH, ZH
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
- $2.2M/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.
📈Ratings growth37,592 ratings+150268% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (53 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.
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
Previous Title: Storysome
Storysome, Light up your mind.
Storysome is a romantic world where you can dive in thousands of attractive werewolf stories and romance stories. Are you a fan of alpha and mated werewolves? Billionaire CEOs? Bossy bad boys? You should really have a try now!
[Why Storysome?]
1.Countless copyrighted original novels you can only enjoy on Storysome
2.Multiple genres included, recommend the right one for you!
3.New stories updated on a daily basis
4.New free stories updated on a weekly basis
5.Super easy to read, all you need to do is to slide the screen
6.… View full description on the official store →
Storysome, Light up your mind.
Storysome is a romantic world where you can dive in thousands of attractive werewolf stories and romance stories. Are you a fan of alpha and mated werewolves? Billionaire CEOs? Bossy bad boys? You should really have a try now!
[Why Storysome?]
1.Countless copyrighted original novels you can only enjoy on Storysome
2.Multiple genres included, recommend the right one for you!
3.New stories updated on a daily basis
4.New free stories updated on a weekly basis
5.Super easy to read, all you need to do is to slide the screen
6.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 104 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 12.4+🔖 v10.8.40🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 EN, KO, PT, ES, TH +1📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
12 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 →
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: paid → free
→ 30 days after: reviews −11 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews −11 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.45 → 4.86 (improved 0.41★)
2025-11
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +20 high confidence
2022-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$72/mo · rating +0.06★ · reviews +47 medium · co-occurring
2022-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$72/mo · rating +0.06★ · reviews +47 medium · co-occurring
2022-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$57/mo · rating −0.14★ · reviews +38 high confidence
2021-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +20 high confidence
2021-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2021-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 708 reviews across 8 markets● 82% positive · ● 9% neutral · ● 10% negative · Rating drift: -0.83★ (declining — recent 50: 4.02★ vs lifetime: 4.85★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.69
🇧🇷 BR
+0.62
🇺🇸 US
+0.58
🇬🇧 GB
+0.53
🇫🇷 FR
+0.53
🇨🇦 CA
+0.52
🇦🇺 AU
+0.37
🇩🇪 DE
+0.10
Top praise themes
stories stories ×20 books read ×15 coins read ×13 free coins ×13 stop reading ×12 reading books ×12 read books ×11 stories read ×10
Top complaint themes
one chapter ×8 whole book ×5 read one ×5 coins read ×5 read book ×5 read chapters ×4 per chapter ×4 one book ×3
Risk signals
Fraud / scam mentions: 0.9%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.79539★ | 3,861 | 4.79539★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.98182★ | 55 | 4.98182★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.80234★ | 3,081 | 4.80234★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.76707★ | 498 | 4.76707★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.78109★ | 201 | 4.78109★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.85799★ | 6,486 | 4.85799★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.74624★ | 532 | 4.74624★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.66411★ | 131 | 4.66411★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.84553★ | 37,587 | 4.84553★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Storysome - Completed Story: 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 high confidence: 37,618 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Storysome - Completed Story make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Storysome - Completed Story earns approximately $2.2M/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 Storysome - Completed Story profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $2.2M, Storysome - Completed Story 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 Storysome - Completed Story have?▴
Estimated audience: ~2.6M lifetime downloads, ~270K monthly active users, and ~54K 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 Storysome - Completed Story?▴
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What is Storysome - Completed Story built with?▴
Our heuristic places Storysome - Completed Story on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) 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 Storysome - Completed Story still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Storysome - Completed Story sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $45.5M (marketplace range $34.0M – $59.0M). 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 Storysome - Completed Story last updated?▴
Storysome - Completed Story last shipped a new version on 2024-09-16 — more than 2 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Storysome - Completed Story?▴
Storysome - Completed Story is published by HK IReader Technology Limited 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 Storysome - Completed Story's BU Score?▴
Storysome - Completed Story has a BU Score of 76/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.