66
Quality Score
Solid
Narrator: Audiobook Maker
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Narrator: Audiobook Maker is an iOS app from Mykola Mylashko in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.5★ across 163 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 66: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player. 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
$500
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$437 – $1575
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$405 – $3644
per month
INDIE tier
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
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 ~4 months 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 |
| ⚙3.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$23K |
Total estimate$80K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$325K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $250K – $425K · 18× MRR multiple
💸~4.1× return on build cost
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 |
| 📅3.9y proven track record | +19% |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| ⭐Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
13K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
1.6K
Daily active
320
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 |
| 📅3.9y of rating accumulation | -19% |
| 🔁Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU20% 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 | 43 MB |
| 🏷Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Slowing
25%
Last shipped 2026-04-20 · 35 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · 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
| 📅35 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
| 👥Small user base (163 ratings) + 3.9y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
VerdictSlowing
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$500/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$426 – $993
12 months
$437 – $1.6K
24 months
$405 – $3.6K
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 · 44/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.7
Product Quality
6.4
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
5.3
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $200 - $1250/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.54★ across 163 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — 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 = $9K-$16K. Portfolio play ($18K/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 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Localized (8 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (163 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.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 43 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v1.8.5🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, JA, KO +3📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (3y old)
📝 About this app
Narrator can read ePub books, PDF and text files with natural sounding voices.
Upload your e-books and listen while walking, driving or just when you want your eyes to rest.
Alternatively, you can convert your e-book to a compact audio file in a few minutes.
Feature list:
- Listen to books and text files
- Choose between many languages and voices
- Supported formats: ePub, txt, rtf, docx, pdf
- Convert e-book to .m4a audio file
- Share created audiobooks with friends & colleagues
Value your time:
Listen to books while walking to save your time or make walk more enjoyable.… View full description on the official store →
Upload your e-books and listen while walking, driving or just when you want your eyes to rest.
Alternatively, you can convert your e-book to a compact audio file in a few minutes.
Feature list:
- Listen to books and text files
- Choose between many languages and voices
- Supported formats: ePub, txt, rtf, docx, pdf
- Convert e-book to .m4a audio file
- Share created audiobooks with friends & colleagues
Value your time:
Listen to books while walking to save your time or make walk more enjoyable.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v1.8.5
- Improved conversion stability and reliability
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 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 →
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.82 → 4.90 (improved 1.08★)
2025-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.25 → 3.89 (dropped 0.36★)
2024-10
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.83 → 4.29 (dropped 0.54★)
2023-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 4.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2023-02
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — narratorapp.co
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.53988★ | 163 | 4.53988★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.69231★ | 13 | 4.69231★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.55556★ | 9 | 4.55556★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.875★ | 16 | 4.875★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.66667★ | 3 | 4.66667★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.64706★ | 17 | 4.64706★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 4 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.83824★ | 68 | 4.83824★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.25★ | 8 | 4.25★ this version |
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Narrator: Audiobook Maker
- Developer
- Mykola Mylashko
- Bundle ID
- com.mylashkonikolay.voiceabook
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES
Company
- Website
- narratorapp.co
- Tagline
- Turn Any Text Into an Audiobook
- Description
- Narrator reads your ebooks, PDFs, and documents aloud with natural-sounding voices in 25+ languages. Free on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $18.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- 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.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews17 latest · avg 3.82★ · 52.9% 5★ · 23.5% 1★
5★9 (53%)
4★4 (24%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★4 (24%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×6 love ×4 recommend ×2 favorite ×1 amazing ×1Complaints: hate ×2 scam ×2 subscription ×2 refund ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Pretty good!
This was just what I was looking for! I’m a kid who loves making stories, and I was able to put it on this app! I do wish that the voices were more expressive, but I understand that’s probably impossible. Overall, 5/5 stars! Definitely reco…
★★★★★ Great, but would be better
There should be more option to go pass 2x speed?…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Outdated voices
The voices sound like their from the ancient times when we were just amazed our computers could talk at all. Now they are just hard to listen to. Especially for a monthly fee.…
★☆☆☆☆ Scam
This app makes you pay to use “premium voices” that are literally made by Apple. Why would I pay you for a voice you did not make. You’re charging me to use something that Apple made.…
📈Ratings growth163 ratings+16200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (18 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 Narrator: Audiobook Maker: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 163 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Narrator make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Narrator earns approximately $18K/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 Narrator profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $80K and monthly revenue $18K, Narrator looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 4 months 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 Narrator have?▴
Estimated audience: ~13K lifetime downloads, ~1K monthly active users, and ~320 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 Narrator?▴
Browse the full Food & Drink category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Narrator built with?▴
Our heuristic places Narrator 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 Narrator still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Slowing (25% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 1 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Narrator sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $325K (marketplace range $250K – $425K). Calculated as 18× 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 Narrator last updated?▴
Narrator last shipped a new version on 2026-04-20 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Narrator?▴
Narrator is published by Mykola Mylashko 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 Narrator's BU Score?▴
Narrator has a BU Score of 66/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.