49
BU Score
Emerging
Home Tab for Safari
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Home Tab for Safari is an iOS app from Stefan Van Damme in the Utilities category, currently rated 3.4★ across 14 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Our BU Score puts it at 49: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Utilities 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 6 of 6 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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Below-average rating (3.4★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (23 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (14 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 98 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v1.13🔄 updated 5mo ago🌐 CS, DA, NL, EN, FI +18📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2021 (4y old)
📝 About this app
Sets your new tab page to a beautiful and inspiring background scene that personally greets you, tailored to the time of day. That will brighten up your day when you open a new page in your Safari web browser. The Home Tab for Safari is a simple and elegant dashboard. It provides options to display the current time and date, a warm greeting, a search box, and a speed dial of shortcuts. Additionally, you can toggle everything off, allowing Safari to open a dark blank page.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.13
+ Support for iOS 26
+ Translation update
If you like Home Tab, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Home Tab!… Full release notes →
+ Translation update
If you like Home Tab, the best way to support the app is by sharing it with others, so please consider telling your friends and family about Home Tab!… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Home Tab for Safari
- Developer
- Stefan Van Damme
- Bundle ID
- com.stefanvd.hometabsafari
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Utilities
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HU, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- www.stefanvd.net
- Tagline
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- 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
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $10.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Utilities
- 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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Funding
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- Investors
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Press & Links
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Contacts & Socials
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews7 latest · avg 2.71★ · 28.6% 5★ · 42.9% 1★
5★2 (29%)
4★1 (14%)
3★0 (0%)
2★1 (14%)
1★3 (43%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×2 best ×1 favorite ×1 perfect ×1Complaints: refund ×1
Top positive
★★★★☆ App is good
Works great but wish there was an iCloud sync option to sync between devices because it’s a pain trying to set up multiple devices.…
★★★★★ Great App.
The simple answer to the "Safari favorites issue." Hey Apple, don't be so lame and just buy "Home Tab for Safari" and make it permanent! Best app ever for Safari. Just try it, its less price than your next Starbuck…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Doesn’t work. At all. Tried all troubleshooting.
Using latest macOS Sonoma. The new start page flat out doesn’t appear. Apple won’t let me refund and I’m not a happy customer now.…
★☆☆☆☆ Absolutely Worthless!
First, figuring out how it works is complex. Second and most important their tech support BOT is Anti Intelligence - useless!
I finally figured out how it works. I got it started but after a restart of Safari my picture was blank. OK I add…
📈Ratings growth14 ratings+1300% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (9 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 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.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Home Tab for Safari: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.