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Barnes & Noble NOOK

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Barnes & Noble NOOK is an iOS app from Barnes & Noble in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.7★ across 117,124 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.

Our BU Score puts it at 73Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink app, that means healthy traction.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL
Revenue 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 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
High install base (117,124 ratings)METRIC
+$12,000
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC
+$2,200
bugsREVIEW
−$1,800
5 starREVIEW
+$1,800
cancelledREVIEW
−$1,500
Mature app (15y old)METRIC
+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW
+$1,400
slowREVIEW
−$1,200
support teamREVIEW
+$900
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC
+$600
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

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Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend

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Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

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Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
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💾 173 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v6.8.6🔄 updated 1mo ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)

📝 About this app

Get the FREE Barnes & Noble NOOK App to enjoy all your favorite digital content on your Apple devices. Access our vast online library of over 4 million eBooks, graphic novels, comics, manga and magazines. Plus discover over 300,000 audiobooks. Enjoy recommendations just for you curated by our expert booksellers. Customize your experience with multiple font and page styles, customized bookshelves and social sharing tools. And never lose your spot— the Barnes & Noble NOOK App syncs across all your devices.


Barnes & Noble at Your Fingertips

-Browse the latest new eBook and audiobook releases, bestsellers, deals, and expert recommendations just for you!
-Discover books in every genre, about every subject, for every age: contemporary fiction, romance, mystery and thriller, classics, sci-fi and fantasy, manga, kids, young adult, non-fiction and more!
-Digital content purchased from Barnes & Noble will automatically appear in this app.
-Explore over 75,000 free eBooks and more than 10,000 free audiobooks.
-Sync your books, bookmarks, notes and highlights across all your devices for a seamless reading experience.
-Listen safely while you drive with CarPlay.

Rich, Customizable Reading and Listening

-Adjust font styles, line spacing, margins, page animations, narration speed, background color, and screen brightness for more comfortable reading.
-Add notes, bookmarks, and highlights as you read or listen. Share favorite highlights with friends across social networks.
-Set the Sleep Timer to coordinate audiobook listening to your schedule.
-Download, read, or listen to free eBook and audiobook samples, and add favorites to your Wishlist.
-Organize your Library into custom shelves.
-Search inside the book and look up words with the in-app dictionary.
-Store content on your device or in the cloud.
-Use ArticleView™ to easily read magazine articles using customized font settings.
-Accessible to blind and low vision users leveraging Apple assistive technology, including screen magnification and VoiceOver.


One App for the Whole Family

-With Profiles, family members can share an account while still enjoying their own customized experience.
-Share eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers and comics across Profiles—no need to purchase again! Reading position, bookmarks, highlights and notes are saved to each Profile.
-Child Profiles allow parents to control what each child sees.

🆕 What's New · v6.8.6

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
Barnes & Noble NOOK
Developer
Barnes & Noble
Bundle ID
com.barnesandnoble.B-N-eReader
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Food & Drink
Content rating
12+
Languages
EN, ES

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ML model estimate / mo
$2.5K/mo
Top-grossing rank
Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
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AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The Barnes & Noble NOOK iOS app does not generate direct revenue through in-app purchases, as it explicitly states 'No In-App Purchases'. Users are directed to BN.com to complete e-book and audiobook purchases, which then sync to the app. Therefore, the app itself does not have a measurable revenue stream in the traditional sense of app revenue.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, MacRumors, Reddit
Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.37★ · 24.5% 5★ · 49.0% 1★
5★
12 (24%)
4★
2 (4%)
3★
2 (4%)
2★
9 (18%)
1★
24 (49%)
+58 ratings/week
Praise: love ×11 great ×4 amazing ×1 recommend ×1 excellent ×1Complaints: broken ×4 bug ×2 hate ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Useful
I love physical format, I don’t have much room, then this is a great solution. Besides has good deals.…
★★★★★ Wonderful app
Love to be able to use my phone to read. I really enjoy this app.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ No longer working
Don’t know what happened with the last update, but it no longer opens at all. I get stuck buffering at the “100% loading”. I can’t read ANYTHING and I’m distraught!…
★☆☆☆☆ Not good very slow
I want to give it a try… kept going back to it gave it two weeks still didn’t like it two weeks. It is so slow just doesn’t work well with my pad in my pad is not old!…
📈Ratings growth117,124 ratings+23% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾May 2023Nov 2025May 2026
Tracked (52 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.
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