Favoread
43
Quality Score
Emerging
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Favoread is an iOS app from Multibook International Publishing Group Limited in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 2.2★ across 141 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 43: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink 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
$3.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.6K – $9.3K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.4K – $21.6K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
33 snapshots on record
Rating
2.2
Reviews
141 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$3.0K
Snapshots tracked
33
since Sep 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$80K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $60K – $110K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.2y 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 |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 4.3y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$26K |
Total estimate
$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$40K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $30K – $50K · 14× MRR multiple
💸
~0.5× 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 |
| 📅 4.3y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
14× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
11K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.3K
Daily active
260
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 |
| 📅 4.3y of rating accumulation | -22% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 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 | 49 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-23 · 4 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
| 📅 4 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥 Small user base (141 ratings) + 4.3y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$3.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$2.5K – $5.9K
12 months
$2.6K – $9.3K
24 months
$2.4K – $21.6K
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
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
3.5
Product Quality
3.1
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
4.6
Operational Safety
8.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $7K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.18★ across 141 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $53K-$94K. Portfolio play ($25K/mo combined) commands premium.
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 8 of 8 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 | |
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.2★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| Established app (4y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (6 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (141 ratings)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 · v1.6.4
Improved content, fixed known bugs.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Favoread
- Developer
- Multibook International Publishing Group Limited
- Bundle ID
- com.multibook.read.favoread
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, PT, ES, TH
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
- $3.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇩🇪#57 /100 🇧🇷#61 /100
- 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 growth263 ratings+26200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (33 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank2 countries
🇩🇪DE#57 /100
🇧🇷BR#61 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#57 now · best #57 · worst #100
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 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
Favorite readings
In this APP, you can read all kinds of books freely, which covering a rich variety of genres like Romance, Werewolf, Fantasy, CEO, Mafia, Youth, LGBTQ+, and so on. And all books and content are displayed by a screen elaborately and recommendation specially.
Favorite subscription
In order to achieve the most convenient and the most cost-effective reading of all books, we launch the subscription package in this app. By subscribing to our Membership, you will get the exclusive benefits, such as read in free, a free trial, one-button subscription.
Favorite app team… View full description on the official store →
In this APP, you can read all kinds of books freely, which covering a rich variety of genres like Romance, Werewolf, Fantasy, CEO, Mafia, Youth, LGBTQ+, and so on. And all books and content are displayed by a screen elaborately and recommendation specially.
Favorite subscription
In order to achieve the most convenient and the most cost-effective reading of all books, we launch the subscription package in this app. By subscribing to our Membership, you will get the exclusive benefits, such as read in free, a free trial, one-button subscription.
Favorite app team… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 49 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.6.4🔄 updated 4d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, PT, ES +1📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (4y 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 →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v1.6.0 → v1.6.2
→ 30 days after: rating +0.25★ · reviews +56 high confidence
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.23 → 2.18 (improved 0.95★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.30★ · reviews +33 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.30★ · reviews +33 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 1.87 → 1.23 (dropped 0.64★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.64★ · reviews −69 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.24 → 1.87 (improved 0.63★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-10
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2024-11
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.11★ · reviews +6 medium · co-occurring
2022-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.67 (dropped 0.33★)
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.00★ high confidence
2022-09
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +1.00★ high confidence
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 2.93536★ | 263 | 2.93536★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 2.53333★ | 30 | 2.53333★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.125★ | 8 | 3.125★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.27367★ | 95 | 4.27367★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 2.5★ | 2 | 2.5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 2.96154★ | 26 | 2.96154★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 1.73684★ | 19 | 1.73684★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.46666★ | 15 | 4.46666★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 3.5★ | 8 | 3.5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Favoread: 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: 141 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Favoread make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Favoread earns approximately $3.0K/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 Favoread profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $80K and monthly revenue $3.0K, Favoread looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.2 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Favoread have?▴
Estimated audience: ~11K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~260 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 Favoread?▴
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What is Favoread built with?▴
Our heuristic places Favoread 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 Favoread still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 4 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Favoread sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $40K (marketplace range $30K – $50K). 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 Favoread last updated?▴
Favoread last shipped a new version on 2026-09-23 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Favoread?▴
Favoread is published by Multibook International Publishing Group 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 Favoread's BU Score?▴
Favoread has a BU Score of 43/100 (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.