41
BU Score
Emerging
J-Novel Club
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J-Novel Club is an iOS app from M12 Media LLC in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 3.2★ across 45 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 41: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink 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 7 of 7 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 (3.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (45 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 40 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 13.0+🔖 v3.3.1🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2021 (4y old)
📝 About this app
Buy and read light novels and manga like Ascendance of a Bookworm, In Another World with My Smartphone, and Black Summoner—while they’re being translated, before they get published!
J-Novel Club is a digital publishing company started by translators and fans just like you! Through our subscription service or with a preorder, you can start reading the latest volumes of your favorite series in weekly parts, fresh from the translator’s hands! Over 60 ongoing series are updated each week, from big-name titles with anime adaptations to newer offerings from small publishers—if it’s a blast to… View full description on the official store →
J-Novel Club is a digital publishing company started by translators and fans just like you! Through our subscription service or with a preorder, you can start reading the latest volumes of your favorite series in weekly parts, fresh from the translator’s hands! Over 60 ongoing series are updated each week, from big-name titles with anime adaptations to newer offerings from small publishers—if it’s a blast to… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v3.3.1
- Add Last Read series sort option
- Remember sort and filters between launches of app
- Add Clear Filters button
- Add show filters icon button, right of search input
- Add background behind back, share, and forum buttons in the part list page
- Fix novel settings layout… Full release notes →
- Remember sort and filters between launches of app
- Add Clear Filters button
- Add show filters icon button, right of search input
- Add background behind back, share, and forum buttons in the part list page
- Fix novel settings layout… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- J-Novel Club
- Developer
- M12 Media LLC
- Bundle ID
- club.j-novel.butterfly
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- j-novel.club
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
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- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
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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
- $287/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
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- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
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- X / Twitter
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- GitHub
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- X followers
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- Public statements
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Funding
- Total raised
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- Last round
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- Investors
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- Crunchbase
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- AngelList
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Press & Links
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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- Press / News
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Contacts & Socials
- Socials
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- Phone
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- Contact page
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- About page
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews13 latest · avg 2.77★ · 15.4% 5★ · 38.5% 1★
5★2 (15%)
4★4 (31%)
3★1 (8%)
2★1 (8%)
1★5 (38%)
+32 ratings/week
Praise: amazing ×2 great ×1Complaints: subscription ×3 bug ×1 broken ×1 scam ×1
Top positive
★★★★☆ Great app missing one thing
The only thing wrong with the app is the manga only has a 1 page reading layout no 2page layout everything else is amazing huge selections of novels and manga that update every weekday…
★★★★★ Really good app
Really good app, i was looking a lot for where to read the novels and mangas I wanted to read and this app has them and has no add which is amazing and a bunch of other really good novels.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No back button
No back button have to constantly close the app…
★☆☆☆☆ Does NOT Work
I used the app to create an account and I am supposed to get an email to very my account. I’ve waited an hour and nothing. I can log in and using “forgot my password” says it sent something, but again nothing has shown. Makes it feel iffy/s…
📈Ratings growth45 ratings+4400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (15 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 J-Novel Club: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.