Spirit Talker ®
42
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Spirit Talker ® is an iOS app from Spotted Ghosts in the Education category, currently rated 2.8★ across 728 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 42: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Education app, that means early traction worth watching. 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
$5.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.9K – $12.4K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$7.3K – $21.9K
per month
MID tier
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
99 snapshots on record
Rating
2.8
Reviews
728 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.7K
Snapshots tracked
99
since Jan 2021
🤖Also on Android
$229/mo · 5K ratings · 4.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$95K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $70K – $130K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.4y 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 |
| ⚙ Education complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
| ⚙ 6.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$36K |
Total estimate
$95K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$75K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $50K – $100K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.8× 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 |
| 📅 6.0y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷 Education category multiple | +6% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
43K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
5.8K
Daily active
1.7K
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
| 📲 Education engagement | ~85 installs / rating |
| 📅 6.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Education D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
29% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
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 | 6 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Education |
| 📦 Compact iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
88%
Last shipped 2020-10-30 · 2200 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
| 📅 6y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$5.4K – $9.0K
12 months
$5.9K – $12.4K
24 months
$7.3K – $21.9K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 36/100MID TIERno growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.3
Product Quality
3.9
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
5.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $8K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.77★ across 728 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 2200d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — dormant (2200d 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 18-32× monthly = $102K-$182K.
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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.8★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (728 ratings)METRIC | +$400 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
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 · v4.39
Voice selection activated! Click on the "Settings" cog, then "Voice Settings". From here you can preview voices via the "Play" button and select the voice you would like by clicking on it.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Spirit Talker ®
- Developer
- Spotted Ghosts
- Bundle ID
- com.spottedghosts.SpiritTalker
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 9+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- spottedghosts.com
- Tagline
- Paranormal Innovation
- Description
- Advanced Paranormal Mobile Apps and Physical Devices for Real Ghost Hunting and Spirit Communication. Creator of the Spirit Talker app and devices.
- 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
- $5.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- 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
- Socials
- Not found
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- spottedghosts.com/user-support
- About page
- spottedghosts.com/about
📈Ratings growth723 ratings+189% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $4.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 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
Spirit Talker – The Original Paranormal Communication App
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As seen on:
Sam and Colby, The Paranormal Files, Twin Paranormal, WWE, Scarlett & Shotzi, Ghost Club Paranormal, Barrier Beyond, Tommy Amongst the Tombstones, Hauntings with Hodge, Jasko, Omar Gosh, Paranormal XP, What Goes Bump in the Night, Exploring with Josh, Ghostly Travels with Zac, Kelsi Davies, Moxleys Paranormal World, Hunting the Dead, TylerReynolds TV, Paranormal Discovery, Haunted Finders, WhatThe? Paranormal, F.D.L Paranormal, and many more!… View full description on the official store →
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As seen on:
Sam and Colby, The Paranormal Files, Twin Paranormal, WWE, Scarlett & Shotzi, Ghost Club Paranormal, Barrier Beyond, Tommy Amongst the Tombstones, Hauntings with Hodge, Jasko, Omar Gosh, Paranormal XP, What Goes Bump in the Night, Exploring with Josh, Ghostly Travels with Zac, Kelsi Davies, Moxleys Paranormal World, Hunting the Dead, TylerReynolds TV, Paranormal Discovery, Haunted Finders, WhatThe? Paranormal, F.D.L Paranormal, and many more!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 6 MB🔞 9+📱 iOS 17.6+🔖 v4.39🔄 updated 6y ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 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 →
2026-10
📦
Bundle ↓ 20MB → 6MB — likely major code refresh
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v4.33 → v4.38
→ 30 days after: reviews +20 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $4.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +15 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.31 → 2.82 (improved 0.51★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +25 high confidence
2025-02
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v4.33
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +17 high confidence
2023-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 high confidence
2023-10
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +13 high confidence
2023-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +14 medium · co-occurring
2023-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.19★ · reviews +21 low · multiple changes
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.30 → 1.77 (improved 0.47★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.10★ high confidence
2022-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.30 → 1.64 (improved 0.34★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.47★ high confidence
2022-06
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.47★ high confidence
2022-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 1.40 (improved 0.40★)
2021-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 2.14493★ | 69 | 2.14493★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 1★ | 1 | 1★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.48684★ | 76 | 2.48684★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 2.38889★ | 18 | 2.38889★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 2★ | 6 | 2★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.77876★ | 226 | 2.77876★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.2★ | 5 | 2.2★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 2 | 4★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.77869★ | 732 | 2.77869★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Spirit Talker ®: 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 medium confidence: 728 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Spirit Talker ® make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Spirit Talker ® earns approximately $5.7K/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 Spirit Talker ® profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $95K and monthly revenue $5.7K, Spirit Talker ® looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.4 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Spirit Talker ® have?▴
Estimated audience: ~43K lifetime downloads, ~5K monthly active users, and ~1K 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 Spirit Talker ®?▴
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What is Spirit Talker ® built with?▴
Our heuristic places Spirit Talker ® on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Native iOS (Swift / UIKit).
Is Spirit Talker ® still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (88% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Spirit Talker ® sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $75K (marketplace range $50K – $100K). Calculated as 14× 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 Spirit Talker ® last updated?▴
Spirit Talker ® last shipped a new version on 2020-10-30 — more than 6 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Spirit Talker ®?▴
Spirit Talker ® is published by Spotted Ghosts 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 Spirit Talker ®'s BU Score?▴
Spirit Talker ® has a BU Score of 42/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.