Ableton Note
56
Quality Score
Solid
Ableton Note
by Ableton AG
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Ableton Note is an iOS app from Ableton AG in the News category, currently rated 4.2★ across 695 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 56: Solid (established niche player). For a News 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
$6.4K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.6K – $20.2K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$5.2K – $46.8K
per month
INDIE tier
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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
98 snapshots on record
Rating
4.2
Reviews
695 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$6.4K
Snapshots tracked
98
since Oct 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$130K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $100K – $175K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.7y 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 |
| 📦 Asset bundle (1007 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 4.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$23K |
Total estimate
$130K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 16× 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 |
| 📅 4.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
16× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
66K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
8.8K
Daily active
3.9K
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
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅 4.0y of rating accumulation | -20% |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
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 | 1007 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-08-25 · 37 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
| 📅 37 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$6.4K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: low defensibility moat
6 months
$5.5K – $12.8K
12 months
$5.6K – $20.2K
24 months
$5.2K – $46.8K
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 · 43/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.6
Product Quality
5.9
Revenue Strength
3.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $2K - $15K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.22★ across 695 reviews — below category median.
- 📍 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 = $115K-$205K.
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 12 of 12 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($6.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (3y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Localized (5 languages)METRIC | +$600 | |
| Early-stage install base (695 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 · v2.1.0
- Introducing Bouncing MIDI to Audio
- Time Signatures
- Audio Warp Markers
- New Sound Content from BADSISTA and Sudan Archives
and many more improvements and bug fixes.
See "Release Notes" under Help inside the App for all the details.
- Time Signatures
- Audio Warp Markers
- New Sound Content from BADSISTA and Sudan Archives
and many more improvements and bug fixes.
See "Release Notes" under Help inside the App for all the details.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Ableton Note
- Developer
- Ableton AG
- Bundle ID
- com.ableton.note
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, JA, ZH
Company
- Website
- www.ableton.com
- Tagline
- Students and teachers
- Description
- Ableton makes software, hardware and other creative tools for a global community of music makers.
- 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
- $6.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- 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
- discord discord.com/invite/ableton · facebook facebook.com/ableton · instagram instagram.com/ableton · tiktok tiktok.com/@ableton · twitter twitter.com/ableton · youtube youtube.com/ableton
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- ableton.com/en/help
- About page
- ableton.com/en/about
📈Ratings growth684 ratings+161% 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 → $6.99 (+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
Start new musical ideas with a curated selection of sounds and effects. Create beats and melodic parts, sample your world, and continue your tracks in Ableton Live.
Note is a place to form ideas, explore new sounds and find direction. Get your ideas out or just experiment until inspiration hits, using a selection of Ableton Live’s drum kits, synths and melodic instruments. Create your own sound palette by sampling with your phone’s built-in microphone. And use Note’s built-in MIDI Editor to sequence notes, beats and chords or make tweaks as you listen back… View full description on the official store →
Note is a place to form ideas, explore new sounds and find direction. Get your ideas out or just experiment until inspiration hits, using a selection of Ableton Live’s drum kits, synths and melodic instruments. Create your own sound palette by sampling with your phone’s built-in microphone. And use Note’s built-in MIDI Editor to sequence notes, beats and chords or make tweaks as you listen back… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1007 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v2.1.0🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, JA, ZH📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2022 (3y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
13 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 — v2.0.1 → v2.1.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $6.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +11 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v2.0.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +24 medium · co-occurring
2026-04
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +15 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.83 → 4.20 (improved 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +15 high confidence
2023-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +8 medium · co-occurring
2023-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +26 low · multiple changes
2022-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +10 high confidence
2022-11
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
2022-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
2022-10
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
2022-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
2022-10
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.06★ · reviews +27 medium · co-occurring
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.31745★ | 63 | 4.31745★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4★ | 16 | 4★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.29032★ | 93 | 4.29032★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.42331★ | 326 | 4.42331★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.55789★ | 95 | 4.55789★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.19553★ | 179 | 4.19553★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.59091★ | 22 | 4.59091★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.43529★ | 85 | 4.43529★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.22014★ | 695 | 4.22014★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Ableton Note: 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: 695 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Ableton Note make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Ableton Note earns approximately $6.4K/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 Ableton Note profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $130K and monthly revenue $6.4K, Ableton Note looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.7 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Ableton Note have?▴
Estimated audience: ~66K lifetime downloads, ~8K monthly active users, and ~3K 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 Ableton Note?▴
Browse the full News 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 Ableton Note built with?▴
Our heuristic places Ableton Note on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Ableton Note still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% 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 Ableton Note sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 16× 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 Ableton Note last updated?▴
Ableton Note last shipped a new version on 2026-08-25 — 1 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Ableton Note?▴
Ableton Note is published by Ableton AG 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 Ableton Note's BU Score?▴
Ableton Note has a BU Score of 56/100 (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.