Texas by Texas (TxT)
77
Quality Score
Strong
Texas by Texas (TxT)
by Texas Department of Information Resources
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Texas by Texas (TxT) is an iOS app from Texas Department of Information Resources in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.9★ across 36,780 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 77: Strong (healthy traction). For a Utilities 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
$1.7K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.5K – $5.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$1.4K – $12.2K
per month
INDIE tierFREE
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
194 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
36,780 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$1.7K
Snapshots tracked
194
since Jan 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.5y 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 |
| ⚙ Utilities complexity ×0.85 | $-7575 |
| ⚙ 4.7y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$28K |
Total estimate
$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$30K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $25K – $40K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× 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 |
| 📅 4.7y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 Utilities category multiple | -10% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
5.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
935K
Daily active
185K
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
| 📲 Utilities engagement | ~200 installs / rating |
| 📅 4.7y of rating accumulation | -23% |
| 🔁 Utilities D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
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 | 48 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Utilities |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-08-28 · 29 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
| 📅 29 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.7K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$1.4K – $3.3K
12 months
$1.5K – $5.3K
24 months
$1.4K – $12.2K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 35/100INDIE TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)limited signalRevenue Strength
3.2
Product Quality
8.2
Market Position
0.3
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.2
Operational Safety
3.1
Founder Strength
4.1
Monetization Maturity
0.5
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $670 - $4192/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 36,780 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — scam/fraud mentions detected, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -1.07 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $20K-$36K. 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 (36,780 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| 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 · v9.0.0
We’ve introduced a new feature to TxT! This major release version includes:
* Self-service account recovery so it’s easier for you to get back into TxT if you lost access to the email address and phone number associated with your account.
* Self-service account recovery so it’s easier for you to get back into TxT if you lost access to the email address and phone number associated with your account.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Texas by Texas (TxT)
- Developer
- Texas Department of Information Resources
- Bundle ID
- gov.texas.dir.txt
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- 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
- 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
- $1.7K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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 growth41,355 ratings+10586% 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
Available services:
• Renew your vehicle registration and track your sticker
• Renew, replace, or change the address on your Texas driver license, CDL, or ID
• And more to come!
Stay organized:
• Manage your list of to-dos through an easy-to-use dashboard
• Easily link vehicles, licenses, and other agency documents to your TxT account
• Keep track of your transaction and activity history
• Get alerts for important due dates
Personalized account:
• Create a single user account to access government services across multiple agencies… View full description on the official store →
• Renew your vehicle registration and track your sticker
• Renew, replace, or change the address on your Texas driver license, CDL, or ID
• And more to come!
Stay organized:
• Manage your list of to-dos through an easy-to-use dashboard
• Easily link vehicles, licenses, and other agency documents to your TxT account
• Keep track of your transaction and activity history
• Get alerts for important due dates
Personalized account:
• Create a single user account to access government services across multiple agencies… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 48 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v9.0.0🔄 updated 4w ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (4y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
22 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v8.2.0 → v9.0.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,117 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v8.1.0 → v8.2.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,265 high confidence
2026-07
📦
Bundle ↑ 29MB → 50MB — likely major code refresh
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,265 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v7.5.0 → v8.1.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,458 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.24 → 4.87 (improved 1.63★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,193 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,193 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.24 → 4.90 (improved 1.66★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +13 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +13 high confidence
2023-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2023-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.07★ · reviews +16 low · multiple changes
2023-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +9 medium · co-occurring
2023-02
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +14 low · multiple changes
2022-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.38 (dropped 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.09★ · reviews +12 high confidence
2022-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.37★ high confidence
2022-04
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.62★ · reviews +7 high confidence
2022-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.40 → 2.83 (improved 0.43★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ medium · co-occurring
2022-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2022-02
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 2.75 (improved 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2022-02
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ high confidence
2022-01
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating −0.17★ high confidence
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 50 reviews across 1 markets● 72% positive · ● 2% neutral · ● 26% negative · Rating drift: -1.07★ (declining — recent 50: 3.8★ vs lifetime: 4.87★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
vehicle registration ×4 new address ×3 easy ×20 process ×8 card ×7 convenient ×5 renewal ×5 don ×4
Top complaint themes
wait hours ×4 try again ×3 info ×7 license ×7 renew ×4 site ×4 registration ×4 only ×4
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 6% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.0%
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Texas by Texas (TxT): category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 36,780 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Texas by Texas (TxT) make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Texas by Texas (TxT) earns approximately $1.7K/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 Texas by Texas (TxT) profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $70K and monthly revenue $1.7K, Texas by Texas (TxT) looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.5 years 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 Texas by Texas (TxT) have?▴
Estimated audience: ~5.6M lifetime downloads, ~935K monthly active users, and ~185K 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 Texas by Texas (TxT)?▴
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What is Texas by Texas (TxT) built with?▴
Our heuristic places Texas by Texas (TxT) on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Texas by Texas (TxT) still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 29 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Texas by Texas (TxT) sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $30K (marketplace range $25K – $40K). Calculated as 19× 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 Texas by Texas (TxT) last updated?▴
Texas by Texas (TxT) last shipped a new version on 2026-08-28 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Texas by Texas (TxT)?▴
Texas by Texas (TxT) is published by Texas Department of Information Resources 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 Texas by Texas (TxT)'s BU Score?▴
Texas by Texas (TxT) has a BU Score of 77/100 (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.