iWriteWords
63
Quality Score
Solid
iWriteWords
by Roy Winata
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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iWriteWords is an iOS app from Roy Winata in the News category, currently rated 4.8★ across 12 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 63: 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
$941
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$823 – $2966
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$762 – $6861
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
57 snapshots on record
Rating
4.8
Reviews
12 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$941
Snapshots tracked
57
since Mar 2009
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$215K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $290K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
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 (156 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙ 17.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$105K |
Total estimate
$215K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$15K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $15K – $20K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× 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 |
| 📅 17.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 60%
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 | 156 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | News |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Likely abandoned
95%
Last shipped 2023-03-23 · 1312 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
| 📅 3y+ since last update | Likely abandoned |
| 👥 Small user base (12 ratings) + 17.6y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
| • 18y old + 1y+ no update | +5% (API deprecation drift) |
Verdict
Likely abandoned
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$941/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
$801 – $1.9K
12 months
$823 – $3.0K
24 months
$762 – $6.9K
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
Pre-traction · 40/100INDIE TIERlimited signalGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.5
Product Quality
3.8
Revenue Strength
3.0
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $376 - $2353/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.75★ across 12 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: ⚠ last update 1310d ago — possibly dormant.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — dormant (1310d since update).
🎯 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 = $16K-$30K. Portfolio play ($33K/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 11 of 11 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 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (17y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (12 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
Performance improvements and bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- iWriteWords
- Developer
- Roy Winata
- Bundle ID
- com.ptgdi.iWriteWords
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
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
- $941/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.
📈Ratings growth12 ratings+1100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (57 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 → $2.99 (+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
How to play:
Help Mr. Crab collect the numbered balls by dragging him with your finger - and drawing the letter at the same time.
Once all the letters in the word are drawn properly, a cute drawing appears.
Slide the letters into the spinning hole and advance to the next level.
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Featured by Apple in "Back to School Apps"
Featured by Apple in "Apps for Learning to Write"
Featured by Apple in "Words for the Wise"
Featured by Apple in "Summer Learning Fun for Kids"
Featured by Apple in "Apps for Learning to Read"
Featured by Apple in "Special Education"… View full description on the official store →
Help Mr. Crab collect the numbered balls by dragging him with your finger - and drawing the letter at the same time.
Once all the letters in the word are drawn properly, a cute drawing appears.
Slide the letters into the spinning hole and advance to the next level.
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Featured by Apple in "Back to School Apps"
Featured by Apple in "Apps for Learning to Write"
Featured by Apple in "Words for the Wise"
Featured by Apple in "Summer Learning Fun for Kids"
Featured by Apple in "Apps for Learning to Read"
Featured by Apple in "Special Education"… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 156 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 9.0+🔖 v3.6🔄 updated 3y ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (17y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
14 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.50 → 4.75 (improved 1.25★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $2.99 price point
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.66 → 3.50 (dropped 1.16★)
2010-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$35.4K/mo high confidence
2010-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$55.4K/mo high confidence
2009-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$93.4K/mo · reviews +5 high confidence
2009-12
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$148K/mo · reviews +8 high confidence
2009-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$89.8K/mo · reviews +5 high confidence
2009-05
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.67 → 4.30 (dropped 0.37★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$126K/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2009-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$126K/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2009-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.67 (improved 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$126K/mo · rating −0.11★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2009-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 4.00 → 4.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$147K/mo · rating +0.67★ · reviews +8 high confidence
2009-03
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$147K/mo · rating +0.67★ · reviews +8 high confidence
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — gigglelab.com
- Mail provider
- Zoho Mail
- Tech stack
- Zoho
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 5★ | 3 | 5★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.5★ | 2 | 3.5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4★ | 1 | 4★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.75★ | 12 | 4.75★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 12 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
📌 Final verdict — read this before you trust the numbers above
iWriteWords is a early-stage iOS app in the news space with weak public traction — only 12 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
7 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does iWriteWords make per month?▴
Our model estimates iWriteWords earns roughly $941/mo, but with only 12 ratings the confidence interval is wide. No founder-verified MRR is available for this app, so this is a model output calibrated against comparable apps in the same category. See methodology for the formula.
What apps are like iWriteWords?▴
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What is iWriteWords built with?▴
Our heuristic places iWriteWords on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 60%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is iWriteWords still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Likely abandoned (95% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 3+ years ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was iWriteWords last updated?▴
iWriteWords last shipped a new version on 2023-03-23 — more than 3 year(s) ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes iWriteWords?▴
iWriteWords is published by Roy Winata 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 iWriteWords's BU Score?▴
iWriteWords has a BU Score of 63/100 (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.