Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books
78
Quality Score
Strong
Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books
by Deseret Book Company
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books is an iOS app from Deseret Book Company in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.9★ across 6,716 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 78: Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink app, that means healthy traction. 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
💡 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
145 snapshots on record
Rating
4.9
Reviews
6,716 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
145
since Dec 2020
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$165K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $125K – $225K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.8y 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 (82 MB) | +$12K |
| ⚙ Food & Drink complexity ×1.10 | +$6K |
| ⚙ 15.5y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$92K |
Total estimate
$165K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× 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 |
| 📅 15.5y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
470K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
13K
Daily active
2.6K
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 |
| 📅 15.5y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Food & Drink D30 retention | 14% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.20 |
DAU / MAU
20% sticky
🛠 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 | 82 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Food & Drink |
| 📦 Mid-large iOS bundle | → Likely native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-09-09 · 18 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
| 📅 18 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
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: review-mined risks present
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
Stalled · 36/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.6
Product Quality
7.3
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
0.6
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.88★ across 6,716 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 9% subscription complaints, bug mentions above category norm, rating drift -0.62 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Portfolio play ($36K/mo combined) commands premium. Discount applied for operational risk..
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 15 of 17 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| frequent crashesREVIEW | −$2,000 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| great valueREVIEW | +$1,600 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (6,716 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 |
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 · v7.10.0
Here's what's new and improved in this version:
• Fixed an issue where your listening position could be lost, downloads could be discarded, and the app could crash while closing the player.… Full release notes →
• Fixed an issue where your listening position could be lost, downloads could be discarded, and the app could crash while closing the player.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books
- Developer
- Deseret Book Company
- Bundle ID
- com.deseretbook.bookshelf
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, PT
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
- $5.0K/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.
📈Ratings growth9,441 ratings+2017% 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.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter4 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline4 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
Deseret Bookshelf – Deseret Book’s Library in Your Pocket
Search, study, read, and listen to uplifting, family-friendly content—all in one powerful app. The new Deseret Bookshelf is the most comprehensive source for wholesome eBooks, audiobooks, and podcasts for individuals and families alike.
Start with 8 free Latter-day Saint eBooks and unlock access to hundreds more—all at no cost. Your Library keeps all your Deseret Book purchases in one convenient place.… View full description on the official store →
Search, study, read, and listen to uplifting, family-friendly content—all in one powerful app. The new Deseret Bookshelf is the most comprehensive source for wholesome eBooks, audiobooks, and podcasts for individuals and families alike.
Start with 8 free Latter-day Saint eBooks and unlock access to hundreds more—all at no cost. Your Library keeps all your Deseret Book purchases in one convenient place.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 82 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v7.10.0🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN, PT📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2011 (15y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
20 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 →
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 12 of 14 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v7.7.0 → v7.10.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +738 low · multiple changes
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v7.5.0 → v7.7.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.2K/mo · reviews +1,530 medium · co-occurring
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v7.1.5 → v7.5.0
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.2K/mo · reviews +1,987 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 5,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,195 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔄
Monetization changed: freemium → free
→ 30 days after: reviews +1,195 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.2K/mo · rating +1.80★ · reviews +4,374 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.11 → 4.90 (improved 1.79★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.2K/mo · rating +1.80★ · reviews +4,374 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$14.2K/mo · rating +1.80★ · reviews +4,374 medium · co-occurring
2022-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2022-03
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.06★ · reviews +10 medium · co-occurring
2021-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.11★ · reviews +6 high confidence
2021-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.30★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2021-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.57 → 3.00 (improved 1.43★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.30★ · reviews +9 high confidence
2021-01
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +1.43★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2021-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.88 → 2.22 (improved 0.34★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.43★ · reviews +7 low · multiple changes
2021-01
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.57 → 1.88 (improved 0.31★)
→ 30 days after: rating +1.43★ · reviews +7 low · multiple changes
2020-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +1.43★ · reviews +7 medium · co-occurring
2020-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.00 → 2.00 (improved 1.00★)
2020-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
📸
Store Page History
12 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
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🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 537 reviews across 6 markets● 70% positive · ● 6% neutral · ● 24% negative · Rating drift: -0.62★ (declining — recent 50: 4.26★ vs lifetime: 4.88★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇫🇷 FR
+0.85
🇨🇦 CA
+0.61
🇦🇺 AU
+0.60
🇩🇪 DE
+0.54
🇺🇸 US
+0.37
🇧🇷 BR
+0.22
Top praise themes
please fix ×10 read listen ×9 highly recommend ×8 reading listening ×7 having access ×7 gospel study ×7 being able ×6 user friendly ×6
Top complaint themes
doesn work ×13 please fix ×12 user friendly ×10 won open ×9 new update ×6 new version ×6 uninstall reinstall ×6 delete reinstall ×6
Risk signals
Subscription complaints: 9% Bug mentions: 14%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.84615★ | 39 | 4.84615★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 5 | 5★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.88889★ | 171 | 4.88889★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 5★ | 7 | 5★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.8★ | 5 | 4.8★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.57692★ | 26 | 4.57692★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.8754★ | 9,664 | 4.8754★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books: 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: 6,716 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books earns approximately $5.0K/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 Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $165K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books have?▴
Estimated audience: ~470K lifetime downloads, ~13K monthly active users, and ~2K 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 Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books?▴
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 Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books built with?▴
Our heuristic places Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books 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 Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 18 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 21× 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 Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books last updated?▴
Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books last shipped a new version on 2026-09-09 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books?▴
Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books is published by Deseret Book Company 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 Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books's BU Score?▴
Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books has a BU Score of 78/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.