Kana LS Touch
56
Quality Score
Solid
Kana LS Touch
Low confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Kana LS Touch is an iOS app from Jan Bogner in the News category, currently rated 4.3★ across 3 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
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
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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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
🤖Also on Android
$2.3K/mo · 28 ratings · 4.7★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$60K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $45K – $80K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2 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 |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$10K |
Total estimate
$60K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$500K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $375K – $700K · 13× MRR multiple
💸
~8.3× 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 |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
13× MRR
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 49/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)underperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
7.4
Product Quality
3.5
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
7.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
9.6
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.33★ across 3 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 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 = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($84K/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 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.3★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Pre-traction phase (3 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.
🆕 What's New · v3.6
- minor bugfixes
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Kana LS Touch
- Developer
- Jan Bogner
- Bundle ID
- KanaLSTouch
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $38.5K/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
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
⭐Recent App Store Reviews29 latest · avg 4.59★ · 65.5% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★19 (66%)
4★9 (31%)
3★0 (0%)
2★1 (3%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×10 best ×6 recommend ×6 excellent ×5 awesome ×5Complaints: hate ×1 worst ×1 crash ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great App, Wonderful Support!😀
After running into a few major issues one of the developer's other apps (which ended up being the fault of my device ) and emailing the developer I received immediate support. This app itself is smooth, simple, and fantastic for learni…
★★★★★ Perfect for learning Katakana and Hiragana
Outstanding app. It’s easy to use, allows you to draw the kana and the compare what you draw to the stylized and handwritten versions. Perfect for learning.…
Top negative
★★☆☆☆ Bad Update!!!
The redesign has made some very stupid changes and taken away useful features! First off I miss the old interface and the "black and orange " option does not put it all back. When you typing during text modes the text is light gra…
📈Ratings growth3 ratings+200% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (32 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.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $3.99 (+0%)
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
Kana LS Touch is an App for learning Hiragana and Katakana. It utilizes the unique touch interface to intuitively teach you how to draw the Hiragana and Katakana characters by displaying strokeorder guidelines.
KANA
- all Hiragana and Katakana Characters:
- Basic Hiragana/Katana
- Dakuten, Handakuten, Yōon Kana
- extended Katakana
- Strokeorder guidelines for all Kana
- Sounds for all Character
- many sample words (all words have Kana, Romaji, english, german & french translation)
- numerous ways to select the kana you want to train:
- just Hiragana, just Katakana or both together… View full description on the official store →
KANA
- all Hiragana and Katakana Characters:
- Basic Hiragana/Katana
- Dakuten, Handakuten, Yōon Kana
- extended Katakana
- Strokeorder guidelines for all Kana
- Sounds for all Character
- many sample words (all words have Kana, Romaji, english, german & french translation)
- numerous ways to select the kana you want to train:
- just Hiragana, just Katakana or both together… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 8 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.6+🔖 v3.6🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN, FR, DE📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
3 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 →
2011-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2009-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.50 (improved 0.50★)
2009-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 82 reviews across 6 markets● 62% positive · ● 16% neutral · ● 22% negative · Rating drift: +0.11★ (improving — recent 50: 4.44★ vs lifetime: 4.33★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇬🇧 GB
+0.90
🇺🇸 US
+0.82
🇦🇺 AU
+0.81
🇨🇦 CA
+0.63
🇫🇷 FR
+0.16
🇩🇪 DE
-0.30
Top praise themes
hiragana katakana ×13 practice writing ×6 stroke order ×5 dass man ×5 man die ×5 test mode ×4 lernen und ×4 kann man ×4
Top complaint themes
man ×6 die ×5 nicht ×4 oder ×4 das ×4 der ×4 als ×3 kann ×3
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3★ | 3 | 3★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.25★ | 4 | 4.25★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 5★ | 2 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 3.5★ | 2 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.33333★ | 3 | 4.33333★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
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About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 3 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
Kana LS Touch is a very early-stage iOS app in the news space with weak public traction — only 3 ratings, no founder-verified MRR, and not ranked in any monitored grossing chart. The app appears to be monetised, but public signals are too sparse for a precise revenue estimate.
Bottom line: treat all revenue, audience and acquisition-value numbers on this page as directional only — not founder-verified facts.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Kana LS Touch make per month?▴
Low-confidence model estimate. Kana LS Touch has only 3 App Store ratings, so our revenue model has very little signal to work with — treat the ~$38K/mo figure as directional only, not a verified MRR. No founder-verified revenue data is available for this app. See methodology for the formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Kana LS Touch?▴
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Who makes Kana LS Touch?▴
Kana LS Touch is published by Jan Bogner 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 Kana LS Touch's BU Score?▴
Kana LS Touch 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.